🔗 Share this article Matteo Cancellieri Shows Glimpses of Brilliance in Silver Lining for Unstable Lazio The feeling at Lazio's home ground was anything but joyful during the weekend fixture. Lazio were trailing against Torino, a team that had allowed ten goals while managing only two goals in their previous five league matches. Supporters from the Curva Nord were finishing their most recent demonstration in a continuous dispute with club owner Claudio Lotito. The Campaign Falling Apart? Was Lazio's season unraveling, or was there ever a binding element holding it together from the beginning? They reappointed Maurizio Sarri as head coach in the summer transfer window, only for him publicly stated that the board had omitted to inform him about the transfer ban they were set to be hit with for financial irregularities. Speculation that he might quit were not true, but he stated that Lotito had "swindled" him. The Roman club were just as chaotic in their performances as they were off it, overcoming Verona 4-0 and Genoa 3-0 but losing their other initial five matches, which included the capital clash. At any given moment, it has been hard to determine if progress is being made or collapsing. The Youngster's Unforeseen Comeback A single player remained positive amid the chaos. Matteo Cancellieri had not been expected to remain with Lazio this season. He was on last season at Parma as a loanee and, at the start of the off-season, his owning club were attempting to extend his stay a while longer. The registration embargo led to a change of plans. They were unable to weaken their team lacking backup options. He joined in the first place when Sarri was last in charge, at that time a 20-year-old graduate of Verona's academy. He accumulated 20 league appearances for Lazio in that campaign, the vast majority of those coming off the bench. Their former sporting director, Igli Tare, who left after that campaign, would later accuse Sarri of "informing all Cancellieri was destined for stardom only to bench him consistently." Finding His Natural Fit Maybe Sarri was still trying to identify the nature of Cancellieri's abilities. Originally described as an attacking winger on arrival, Cancellieri nevertheless spent the majority of that term as a struggling deputy to Ciro Immobile at No 9. Across 63 games during spells with Empoli and Parma over the last two seasons, he scored seven times. Shoehorn