Lautaro Martínez shoots more: the numbers of his start

The player of the day rotation starts from the first name on the list: Lautaro Martínez, 29, Argentine, A (attaccante, forward) for Inter, priced at 34 credits, the highest value among the 116 forwards. The point the numbers make is simple: compared with last season he looks for goal far more often, but accuracy has not risen with volume and his fantasy scores have not yet found consistency.

His 2025-26 Serie A season ended with 30 appearances, 27 starts, 2,178 minutes, 17 goals and 6 assists. He took 69 shots, 39 of them on target; he made 37 key passes, won 115 of 253 duels (45.5%) and completed 20 of 43 dribbles. Our data record no penalties scored. His average API-Football rating was 7.08. Outside the league he added 4 goals in 8 Champions League matches, figures that stay out of every comparison.

In this start he has played 3 matches, all as a starter, for 234 minutes, with 2 goals and no assists. That is few minutes, just above the threshold we use for per-90 comparisons, so they should be read with caution. Total shots rise from 2.85 to 4.23 per 90 minutes (+48.4%), while shots on target stay flat: from 1.61 to 1.54. Goals go from 0.70 to 0.77 per 90 minutes, assists from 0.25 to zero. His involvement in build-up grows: passes go from 24.79 to 31.15 per 90 minutes and attempted dribbles from 1.78 to 2.69, although successful ones drop from 0.83 to 0.77. There is also a detail that matters in fantasy football: 2 yellow cards in 3 matches, against 4 in the whole of last season's Serie A.

The FantaTB fantasy scores tell the same uneven story. His average rating is 6.33, his fantasy average 8.00 over 3 rated appearances. But the sequence is 5.0 on matchday 1, 5.5 on matchday 2 and 13.5 on matchday 3: the high fantasy average comes mostly from one match. FantaTB's estimated starting rate is 65%. Among the forwards in the list, his fantasy average puts him in the 82nd percentile (out of 74 with data), his starting rate in the 77th (out of 116), and his goals plus assists per 90 minutes in Serie A, 0.77, in the 80th (out of 30).

The team context is favourable. Inter are 2nd with 12 points from 4 matchdays, 4 wins, 13 goals scored and 6 conceded. They produce 2.61 xG per match (over 3 matches with data), hold 66.0% average possession and shoot 25.0 times per match. The next fixture, however, is the toughest possible: matchday 5, AS Roma-Inter at the Stadio Olimpico, away, Saturday 19 September. Roma are 1st with 12 points, have won all 4 matches, kept a clean sheet in 3 and concede 0.62 xG per match (over 3 matches with data).

On availability, our data report no injuries or suspensions. There is, however, a signal to watch: at the moment he does not appear in our predicted Inter line-up, and there are still days to go before the match, so it needs checking in the coming updates. For those who own him the picture is this: a forward shooting more than a year ago, in a team that creates a lot, against the defence that has conceded least so far. Shot volume is his best card, but flat accuracy and two bookings already say this start still needs understanding, not celebrating.