Nobody like Gianluca Lapadula when it comes to the Serie B playoffs. With yesterday's goal against Bari, for the illusory 1-0, the Italian-Peruvian striker reached nine goals in the promotion play-offs of the cadet championship, out of eleven career matches. Numbers that are allowing him to further enrich his score in the playoffs alone, where this season he has become - scoring four times in as many appearances - the best scorer ever. He overtook Pablo González and Francesco Tavano, who have stopped at six goals in their careers, with a brace in the preliminary round against Venezia, then improving his score with Parma and last night.
The numbers. Lapadula scored twenty-six times during the season: twenty-one in the regular season (with the title of top scorer and the Pablito Award presented yesterday by Lega B president Mauro Balata), four in the playoffs and one in the Coppa Italia on his debut with Perugia, out of forty-two appearances overall . On Sunday at San Nicola, where he will go in search of goals for the victory that is worth promotion, he could become the first double-digit player in the history of the Serie B playoffs, established definitively from the 2004-2005 season. With Cagliari he averages one goal per game, four out of four, then he scored two in three matches last year with Benevento and three in four appearances in 2015-2016 with Pescara. Situation, the latter, where he was the driving force of the Abruzzo who overcame Trapani in the final returning to Serie A: what Lapadula wants to do with Cagliari.
