Lautaro Martínez scored his 100th Serie A goal on Sunday as Inter Milan scored twice as they beat Lecce 4-0, extending their lead over Juventus to nine points in the league. Argentina striker Martínez joined the 100 club in Italy’s top flight after scoring in the 15th minute in southern Italy. And 10 minutes after the break he scored the third goal for an Inter team that was almost unrecognizable from the one that beat Atletico Madrid on Tuesday, but was still able to overcome its opponent.

“We’re consistent, we play really good football… I’m really happy because we’re doing a great job and we need to continue because it’s not over yet,” Martínez told DAZN. “

“When I left home at 15 I never thought I would experience all this. It’s because of the hard work and sacrifices my family made when I was a kid.”

Davide Fratesi scored two minutes before Martínez’s second and Stefan de Vrij scored against 14th-placed Lecce with a header from a 67th-minute corner.

Inter coach Simone Inzaghi made seven changes from his team’s 1-0 Champions League win over Atletico, but captain Martínez started and did the damage for Inter, as he often does.

The 26-year-old has scored 22 goals in 23 league appearances in a sensational season for both himself and his team as the Scudetto begins to look like an inevitability.

Inter have won all 10 of their matches since the start of the year and have kept 22 clean sheets this season.

They can have 12 points ahead of next weekend’s fixtures as they have a game in hand on Wednesday night against Atalanta, who held AC Milan to a 1-1 draw.

That fixture will be anything but a walk in the park as Atalanta have won five of their last six in Serie A, but Inzaghi will have a group of rested starters who will be fresh and one-horse. Will be ready to give another blow in the title race.

leo ends drought

Rafael Leao had not scored a league goal since his winner against Verona at the end of September and he ended his drought in spectacular style on Sunday by firing the opener from a tight angle after excellent footwork.

The 24-year-old has scored three times and set up twice in his last six games in all competitions, but it was another chance for third-place Milan on Sunday after a chaotic defeat at Monza last weekend.

Teun Kupminor gave Atalanta a point from the penalty spot three minutes before half-time as Gian Piero Gasperini’s side handed the final Champions League spot to Bologna.

Milan were angry at the penalty as coach Stefano Pioli said that Oliver Giroud “did nothing” when he was penalized by Daniel Orsato for light contact with Emil Holm’s chest.

Pioli said, “Homme had his hands over his face as if he’d been kicked in the head… Orsato doesn’t review it if he doesn’t go down like that.”

Fifth-placed Atalanta need to win their game at Inter to move up to fourth as they are two points behind Bologna and seven behind Milan.

Daniele Rugani fired home a stoppage-time winner as Juventus ended a worrying four-match winless run by beating Frosinone 3-2 in Turin.

Defender Rugani managed to get his boot on Dusan Vlahovic’s flick-on from a corner in the fifth and final minute of injury time to send Juve right into the second.

Sunday’s win made Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri the first player in Serie A history to score more than a thousand points, taking his total now to 1,002, according to statistics provider Opta.

Victor Osimhen’s second goal in as many days was not enough to rekindle Napoli’s hopes in European football as Zito Luvumbo scored in the 96th minute to give Cagliari a 1–1 draw and leave Napoli in ninth place .

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