The answer is simple, again, Vlahovic has the potential to be our main guy in attack.
Do you think they'll ever be a point where Lautoro can manage this? with his lack of speed, strength and tunnel vision/low-IQ?
As for the one-hit-wonder-Piatek-comparisons, lets be clear, Piatek failed because he is strictly an out and out poacher, at home in the final third at the end of crosses. None of this suited Milans game. And to compound the problem, his mental state and attitude, he wasn't ready to put in the work and improve his game. Also Milan were in piss poor form at that point, remember Rebic was a huge flop and Leao looked out of his depth. Things began to change when Ibra came (and Piatek benched).
Makes no sense to compare Vlahovic's situation with Piatek.
It's funny because the way you talk about Lautaro it feels like we're talking about Paloschi. Like we are talking about a player with absolutely no quality, no ability. At this point I wonder how the hell he is been doing everything he does at Inter and for Argentina with the actual set of skills of Kevin Lasagna. I think you're being unfair because at the same time you're talking about Vlahovic as if he's the second coming of R9 off of 4 months in his career.
You are talking about potential as well, makes it feel like Lautaro is 35 while the guy just hit 24, he still has plenty of time to develop and reach maturity.
I wonder how you're so sure of Vlahovic having the potential of being the main man in our attack and at the same time so sure that Lautaro is gonna stagnate at the (high level) he is already at. We have way more data about Lautaro than Vlahovic and the data says that from the moment he walked through the door to now, Lautaro has never stopped getting better. Sure he is not reliable 100% of the time but neither is Vlahovic. No one can even see Lautaro's ceiling yet.
Do you think they'll ever be a point where Lautoro can manage this? with his lack of speed, strength and tunnel vision/low-IQ?
Lack of speed? He is not extremely fast but he is not slow either, just because he stopped running behind his defender last season due to the way we were playing doesn't mean he is suddenly turned into Tommaso Rocchi. Look at slow-ass Lautaro
here and
here. He has the amount of pace he needs, he is not an Osimhen type of striker.
Lack of strength? I think we can agree on the fact that he enjoys diving too much sometimes BUT, Lautaro is not weak, he often battles with defenders bigger and taller than him and if he can't answer on the strength side he often uses clever turns or movement to get rid of his defender or just shoots on his first touch. His tenacity makes up for his little size, examples are him outmuscling Lenglet to score the opener agaisnt Barcelona in 2019/2020 or his action against Amrabat when we scored the 2-1 agaisnt Fiorentina at home last year. Lautaro doesn't get bullied off the ball.
Tunnel vision? Low IQ? Call it what you want I can see what you're talking about I agree but is it THAT bad? He is a striker and still young, that's to be expected, also let's not act like Vlahovic is a genius on the pitch. Lautaro is also able to do nice long passes to switch side or recycle possession like
here or on Hakimi's goal against Roma for example iirc. He does have pretty good vision on his day but a lot of the time he is like a bull, that's true.
I think other than that, Lautaro has also great qualities that are useful to the team, he is like top 1% in Europe in tackles and interceptions for attackers or something like that, he provides great pressing and activity. He has a great first touch most of the time when he is not trying too hard. He is an aerial threat as well despite being rather short. But most importantly and I think it's not talked about enough, he has an insane offensive positioning. There are goals that he scored that were just the fruit of him being able to lose his defender and run in the correct space with the correct timing and that's for me his best characteristic. His second goal against Milan last year, his goal against Juventus in the Coppa, his last minute header against Torino and so on... Especially that Torino goal, the movement, positioning and finishing are very very high level, very difficult to execute. On that level he was always better than Lukaku for example. He is very goot at that, I don't understand why people make it sound like he scores 17 tap-ins to make it 4-0 in the season, most of his goals are impotant goals that need skill. He is already a good player who can improve and turn into a great player, imo.
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