🔗 Share this article Cancellieri Displays Flashing Moments of Brilliance in Silver Lining for Unstable Lazio The atmosphere at their home stadium was far from happy during the weekend fixture. The Biancocelesti found themselves behind against Torino, an opponent that had allowed a total of 10 goals while scoring only two in their previous five league matches. Fans from the Curva Nord were finishing their ongoing dissent in a long-running conflict with club owner Claudio Lotito. A Season Unraveling? Was Lazio's season unraveling, or did there exist a thread maintaining its structure to start with? They reappointed Maurizio Sarri as manager in the summer transfer window, before he admitted that the board had omitted to inform him about a ban on new signings they were about to receive for accounting issues. Rumours that his departure was imminent were not true, but he acknowledged that Lotito had "deceived" him. The Biancocelesti became as messy in their performances as they were off it, defeating Verona 4-0 and Genoa 3-0 but being defeated in the rest of their initial five matches, which included the capital clash. Throughout this period, it has been hard to ascertain if they are improving or collapsing. Matteo's Unexpected Presence One individual kept smiling throughout. Matteo Cancellieri had not been expected to be at Lazio this year. He completed the last one with Parma on loan and, early this summer, his parent club were pushing for him to extend his stay a while longer. The registration embargo led to a change of plans. They were unable to weaken their team with no new signings. Cancellieri arrived originally when Sarri was last in charge, at that time a 20-year-old alumnus of Verona's academy. He accumulated 20 league appearances for Lazio in 2022-23, all but one of those as a substitute. Their former sporting director, Igli Tare, whose tenure ended at the end of that season, later stated Sarri of "telling everyone Cancellieri would be a star then never playing him." Discovering His Natural Fit Maybe Sarri was still trying to work out the nature of his skill set. Billed as an attacking winger on arrival, Cancellieri nevertheless spent most of that campaign as an ineffective backup to Ciro Immobile as center forward. Across 63 games on loan at Empoli and Parma over the last two seasons, his tally was seven goals. Shoehorn