Fans flowed to the streets of Naples with kilts when Scott McTominay broke a 63-year record that was previously held by Denis Law.
Mctominay and Law, both formerly from Manchester United, are surprisingly Scottish hits in Italian football, more than 60 years apart.
McTominay, 28, scored his 10th and 11th goals of the Serie A campaign while the side of Antonio Conte Torino defeated 2-0.
Ironically, Law scored 10 goals from Torino in the 1961-62 season, and his record has existed for more than 60 years.
The goals of MCTominay were the spark for treasures of Napoli fans to storm the Napolitan streets, with many dressed in classic Scottish kilts to greet their hero.
The law died earlier this year at the age of 84.
But MCTominay has since picked up the Scottish target path that has paved his predecessor for him.
Mctominay is a staple and a revelation in the midfield of Napoli since his £ 25 million relocation from United last summer, with 12 goals in 30 performances in the Italian flight.
His 11 goal has him jointly in the top goalscorer hit lists, similar to Roma's Artem Dovbyk, and only one of Lautaro Martinez.
Napoli now led Inter Milan at the top of the Serie A-Table after Simone Inzaghi's League League Semi-Finalists stuttered in their deficiency defense and fell on a shock 1-0 home retrag through Roma.
Matias Soule, the former Juventus star, yielded the winner for the visitors of Claudio Ranieri, who themselves chase the Champions League qualification with four games to play.
They are two points from Juve in the sixth, with surprise package Bologna that occupied fifth.
As far as Napoli is concerned, they then travel to Lecce, before they organize Genoa.
Their penultimate competition lets them go to Parma before their season finale at home at Cagliari.
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