{"id":299558,"date":"2021-01-03T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T16:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=299558"},"modified":"2021-01-03T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:02:55","slug":"lautaro-grabs-hat-trick-as-six-goal-inter-milan-top-serie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=299558","title":{"rendered":"Lautaro grabs hat-trick as six-goal Inter Milan top Serie A"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inter Milan\u2019s Argentine forward Lautaro Martinez (C) celebrates after scoring the 5-2 goal during the Italian Serie A football match Inter Milan vs Crotone on January 3, 2021 at the Giuseppe-Meazza (San Siro) stadium in Milan. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lautaro Martinez scored a hat-trick as Inter Milan kicked off 2021 in blistering form with a 6-2 win over lowly Crotone on Sunday to take top spot in Serie A.
\nInter claimed an eighth consecutive league win to move two points ahead of AC Milan who travel to midtable Benevento later on Sunday with champions Juventus hosting Udinese.
\nMartinez and Romelu Lukaku proved decisive for the northeners, the strike duo being involved in five of Inter\u2019s goals.
\nAntonio Conte\u2019s side had been pegged back 2-2 at the break with Niccolo Zanellato breaking through with a 12th-minute header for the promoted Calabrians who are second from bottom with the worst attack in the league.
\nBut Martinez picked up a Lukaku cross to pull the hosts level eight minutes later.
\nMartinez had a role in Inter\u2019s second just after half an hour when Crotone defender Luca Marrone turned the ball into his own net under pressure from the Argentina forward.
\nVladimir Golemic put the sides level six minutes later after Arturo Vidal fouled Arkadiusz Reca, with Conte replacing the Chilean midfielder after the break.
\nMartinez pulled Inter ahead before the hour connecting with a Marcelo Brozovic through ball and headed in his third with 12 minutes to go off a rebound.
\nLukaku blasted in his 50th goal in the Inter jersey after 64 minutes before going off after taking a knock to his thigh, before Achraf Hakimi sealed the win with three minutes to go.
\n\u201cThere is great desire and it shows,\u201d said Conte as Inter target their first Serie A title since 2010 with their European campaign over this season.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s important to continue like this, we produce and create a lot, we score a lot of goals, it\u2019s a pity for the goals conceded.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inter Milan\u2019s Argentine forward Lautaro Martinez (C) celebrates after scoring the 5-2 goal during the Italian Serie A football match Inter Milan vs Crotone on January 3, 2021 at the Giuseppe-Meazza (San Siro) stadium in Milan. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA \/ AFP) Lautaro Martinez scored a hat-trick as Inter Milan kicked off 2021 in blistering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10444],"class_list":["post-299558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-intermilan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}