Scotland striker equals Denis Law's Torino goal record after 63 years
The 28-year-old, who moved to Italy last summer after leaving Southampton, has now been on target 10 times in the 2024/25 campaign.
That was the number of goals which Manchester United and Scotland great and former European Footballer of the Year Law netted during the season he spent a Torino.
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Adams has been on the brink of the achievement since finding the target in a 2-2 draw with Parma away at the Ennio Tardini Stadium at the start of last month.
He confessed that he was pleased to finally get into double figures and move alongside the Aberdeen-born legend in the scoring charts.
"It's a wonderful feeling to have achieved it,' he said. 'He was a great player who I knew well. But the important thing remains the three points.
'Tonight we did our job with a victory and three points brought home. We must focus day by day, even if obviously as a team we must have the ambition to grow further".
(Image: SNS Group) Adams now has the chance to surpass Law's accomplishment in the Serie A match against title chaser Napoli at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium on Sunday.
He will come up against his Scotland team mates Billy Gilmour and Scott McTominay in that fixture.
Lewis Ferguson overtook Law as the highest scoring Scot in Serie A history when he bagged a late winner for Bologna against Atalanta in December 2023.
A representative of the Denis Law Legacy Trust travelled to Italy before Christmas last year to present the former Hamilton and Aberdeen midfielder with a trophy to honour his achievement.
The Lawman, who sadly passed away at the age of 84 back in January, also sent his compatriot a personal message congratulating him.
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Earlier this year Ferguson said, 'It was special because he was such an iconic player in Scotland, one of the absolute greatest. And it was such a surprise to receive such a lovely detailed message from him telling me, 'Well done, keep going, keep it up'.
'It was really, really nice. It was a beautiful message, something he didn't need to do and it meant the world to me.
'That's why I was so sad to see the news of his death. He was just such an iconic man, an iconic player. One of the greatest we've ever seen.
'He was one of the trailblazers for Scots in Italy. And let's just say back in the day it probably wasn't as easy as it is nowadays. Everything is there for you now.
'It must have been much more difficult in the 1960s, I'd imagine. So, yeah, thank you to Denis for doing that because he was an inspiration to everybody that plays the game and it was absolutely an inspiration to me when I received that.'
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