Lautaro Martínez scored his 33rd goal with Argentina, surpassing Maradona and now aiming for Crespo. A bomber for both Inter and the Albiceleste, “El Toro” is a certainty for Scaloni and Chivu. Speaking about the lost Champions League final, the 5-0 in Munich, he said:
“For five days I didn’t want to talk to anyone.
I wanted to talk to people, to my teammates, but nothing would come out and I couldn’t say a single word. I was blocked, worried, and very sad. In the last three years, we’ve managed to reach two Champions League finals, we’ve had a great league campaign, an extraordinary journey.
However, in the end, something has always been missing for us to reach the main objective, the Champions League. What happened in the final against PSG? Maybe the right word to describe it is incapacity — we didn’t manage to do anything we had worked on and prepared for.”