Serie A Top Goalscorer Odds

In another thrilling Serie A season, it was Ciro Immobile who yet again scored the most goals. His 27 for Lazio was the second time in three seasons that the Italian has been the top scorer in Italy’s top flight. As preparation for the new season is underway, we look at who will be challenging for supremacy.

Dusan Vlahovic was made Juventus’ fourth most expensive signing back in January, making the £73m move from Fiorentina after making a massive impression on the Serie A in the past season and a half, scoring 38 goals in 58 games which put him on the radar of top European clubs, but it was the Old Lady who secured his signature.

Vlahovic did struggle at times in his half-a season so far for Juventus but despite adapting to a new style, he still managed seven goals in 15 appearances, averaging a goal every 153 minutes and after a pre-season getting used to the system, Vlahovic will undoubtedly be present in the race for the Golden Boot.

After a spell back in England that he won't want to be mentioned, Romelu Lukaku is back in Italy at Inter Milan, a club in which he managed 47 goals in 72 games for, helping Inter win their first Scudetto in 11 years.

A major part of Lukaku’s form in Serie A was that the team was played to his strengths under Antonio Conte, and despite under new management in Simone Inzaghi, he plays similar football to Conte, so Lukaku could be in position to get back to his goal-scoring ways after only managing eight league goals for Chelsea.

Since joining Lazio in 2016, Ciro Immobile has been the unstoppable force in Italian football, consistently in the running for the Golden Boot, winning the award three times, including two of the past three seasons and is looking to defend his award this season.

Immobile's record for Lazio in Serie A is incredible, scoring 150 goals in 208 appearances for the Biancocelesti and at 31 years old, is in his prime to make another run for the Golden Boot and win back-to-back top scorer awards for the first time in his career - an extra motivation for him this season is the chance score his 200th Serie A goal and place himself inside the top ten all-time Serie A goalscorers list.

Since joining Inter Milan in 2018, Lautaro Martinez has become one of the most highly rated forwards in Europe, and year on year he is improving his goal output and now entering his prime years, it feels like sooner rather than later that his goalscoring is going to explode and with Lukaku back in the folds at Inter, more space might open up for the Argentinian to do his work.

Last season, Martinez ended up as the third top scorer in the league and was the focal point in the best attack in the league, and if he started more than 28 games last season, Inter could’ve won the league after losing out to local rivals AC Milan by two points.

Duvan Zapata last season had a lot of injury problems, only making 24 appearances for Atalanta last season. Starting only 20 times, and it showed, with Atalanta finishing eighth in the league after placing third in all three seasons since Zapata’s arrival.

At the age of 30, Zapata is at the age where goalscorers usually peak, and he has the ability to create chances for himself, creating the third most xg per 90 minutes in the Serie A last season, and if he stays fit next season, getting himself a similar amount of good chances, he will be capable of winning the golden boot.

Napoli made a massive risk on the potential of Osimhen in 2020, paying £67m for him, and thus far he has shown flashes of the potential he has but over the course of a season has failed to put it together, with injuries getting in the way after only making 39 starts in two seasons for Napoli so far.

If Osimhen can put it all together this season, his physical attributes can make him one of the most dynamic strikers in the league and if he stays fit can definitely score over 20 goals after managing 14 goals in 27 appearances last season, but what might hold him back is Napoli’s departures, losing three key players in Lorenzo Insigne, Fabian Ruiz and Kalidou Koulibaly.

Tammy Abraham clearly enjoyed his first season in the Serie A with Roma last season, scoring 17 goals in 37 appearances, a very impressive first season considering he was getting used to a new team, league and language, but there is room for further development.

Abraham underperformed his xg last season by three goals, but despite this, the promising sign was that he accumulated the second most xg in the Serie A last season, which could be bettered even further this season with the addition of Paulo Dybala to the side, creating even more chances for the 23 years old.