In the third round of the group stage of the 2024 Copa America, Argentina plays Peru. Lautaro, who started the game, scored in a single goal, scoring in four consecutive games for the first time in his national team career.
After breaking a 16-game national football drought, Lautaro finally found his shooting boots in 2024. Since the start against El Salvador, Lautaro has scored five goals and provided one assist in six games, failing to score against Ecuador alone.
In both games against Canada and Chile, Lautaro scored after coming off the bench. In just 31 minutes of play, Lautaro scored two goals. In the Copa America scorer list, Lautaro is tied for the top spot with Maximiano Araujo, Nunez, Balogun and Vinicius with 2 goals, but the efficiency of 1 goal in 15.5 minutes makes him clearly higher than the rest of the players.
Against Peru, Lautaro made his first start in this Copa America and formed a forward trident with Di Maria and Garnacho.
In the 47th minute of the game, Lo Celso went straight to the goal, Di Maria took advantage of the situation, and Lautaro burst into the penalty area to face the goalkeeper and scored a goal, 1-0!
In 13 appearances in the Copa America, Lautaro scored eight goals. In 61 appearances for his country, Lautaro scored his 27th goal. Meanwhile, in 7 matches in 2024, Lautaro is involved in 7 goals, an average of 1 per game.
Lautaro has scored in four consecutive games, the first time in his international career that he has made it four wins in a row, after the previous record was three in a row on 7 July 2021. After scoring his third goal of the Copa America, Lautaro leads the Copa America scorer's charts.