The striker scored his 16th goal in this Serie B.
Gianluca Lapadula continues on a roll. The striker returned to Cagliari after his participation in the friendlies of the FIFA date with the Peruvian team and he only needed half an hour to convert for the fourth consecutive game in his team’s 1-1 draw at home against FC Südtirol on the 31st of Italian Serie B.
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The move occurred after 30 minutes when the game was 0-0 and he received a headed pass from a teammate in a kind of scissor shot that finished off Giacomo Poluzzi’s goal, the goalkeeper managed to save the shot, but left a rebound in the area girl, so the forward stretched from the ground and did not miss his second chance to send the ball into the back of the net. It seemed that the team obtained a great victory over the third in the table, but at minute 87 the Argentine Joaquín Larrivey appeared to tie it on a penalty.
With this new goal, the Italian-Peruvian scored for the fourth consecutive game and became the top scorer in Serie B with 16 goals, beating Moroccan Walid Cheddira (15) from Bari and Italian Matteo Brunori (14) from Palermo. It should be noted that this is Gianluca Lapadula’s second best season in the second division, second only to 2015/2016, in which he scored 30 goals for Pescara.
Gianluca Lapadula scored for the fourth consecutive game for Cagliari.