🔗 Share this article Matteo Cancellieri Demonstrates Flashing Moments of Genius in Bright Spot for Unstable Lazio The mood at their home stadium was decidedly gloomy during the weekend fixture. Lazio were trailing against Torino, an opponent that had allowed ten goals while scoring only two in their most recent five league matches. Fans from the Curva Nord were finishing their ongoing dissent in an ongoing feud with chairman Claudio Lotito. The Campaign Falling Apart? Was Lazio's season coming unstitched, or was there ever any cohesion maintaining its structure to start with? The club brought back Maurizio Sarri as manager in the summer transfer window, but then he admitted that the club had omitted to inform him about a registration embargo they were about to receive for financial irregularities. Reports that his departure was imminent were without basis, but he did say that Lotito had "misled" him. The Roman club became as messy in their performances as behind the scenes, overcoming Verona 4-0 and Genoa 3-0 but losing their other opening fixtures, which included the capital clash. At any given moment, it has been hard to ascertain if progress is being made or imploding. Cancellieri's Surprising Return At least one man continued to smile amid the chaos. Matteo Cancellieri was not even supposed to be at Lazio this season. He was on last season at Parma as a loanee and, early this summer, his owning club were advocating for him to extend his stay for another season. The signing restriction necessitated a reconsideration. The club couldn't risk to weaken their team without replacements. He signed initially under Sarri's first spell, then a 20-year-old product of Verona's academy. He recorded 20 matches in the league in Lazio colors in 2022-23, all but one of those coming off the bench. Their former sporting director, Igli Tare, who left at the end of that season, subsequently claimed Sarri of "promising everyone Cancellieri would be a star only to bench him consistently." Discovering His Best Role It's possible the coach was continuing to attempt to work out the exact type of Cancellieri's abilities. Billed as a flank player on arrival, Cancellieri yet was deployed for much of that season as a struggling deputy to Ciro Immobile as center forward. During 63 outings while playing for Empoli and Parma in the past two years, he scored seven times. Shoehorn