Lautaro Martinez’s goals vs. Cagliari saw him equal Ronaldo, Icardi record

Lautaro Martinez became only the sixth player in Inter‘s history to score 20 goals in a single season before the age of 25.

The Argentina forward scored twice to take the Nerazzurri’s title challenge into the final day of the campaign and in doing so passed the 20-goal mark for the season.

The last Inter player to score 20 goals in a season before turning 25 was Mauro Icardi, who did it twice. In 2014-15, at 22, he hit 27 and two years later he scored 26.

Before Icardi, it was Brazil legend Ronaldo who was 21 when he joined in 1997 on the back of two world-record fees and Ballon d’Or. He kicked off his Inter career with 34 in all competitions but only reached double figures in one more season before leaving for Real Madrid in 2002.

You have to go back almost 40 years for the last time prior to Ronaldo when Antonio Angelillo, star of the Grande Inter team of the the 1950 and 1960s, scored 38 times in the 1958-59 season when he was 22 years old.

Earlier still, Hungary forward Stefano Nyers scored 26 times in his debut campaign with Inter in 1948-49, the season he turned 25.

The legendary Giuseppe Meazza, born in 1910, hit at least 20 goals for 10 straight seasons at Inter from when he turned 18 in 1928 until 1937-38.