Lazio midfielder Davide Frattesi has carried his scoring form into the early weeks of the 2026-27 Serie A season with a consistency that the club's shifting squad picture makes increasingly significant. The 26-year-old has found the net in both of his league appearances under Gennaro Gattuso, averaging a match rating of 8.00 across those two fixtures — numbers that place him among the most productive midfielders in the biancocelesti's opening stretch.
The context sharpens the picture. Lazio have trimmed their registered Serie A list, with Pellegrini and Patric among those removed from the submission to the league, while Gudmundsson and other new arrivals have been confirmed in the squad. Boulaye Dia has departed on loan to Rennes. The exits narrow Gattuso's options in the final third, which concentrates attention on the players who remain — and Frattesi, producing a goal per league game, is at the front of that group.
His single Coppa Italia appearance, played for a previous club and therefore outside the Serie A ledger, returned no goals. That blank is worth noting not as a criticism but as a calibration: his league numbers belong to a different context, one where Gattuso's structure and Lazio's collective defensive solidity — two wins, no goals conceded across two matches — appear to suit his movement between the lines.
An AI overall rating of 78 out of 100, with a potential assessed at 82, suggests the analytical models see room for further development. At 26, Frattesi sits at an age where that ceiling is still reachable within a single contract cycle, provided the minutes and the system remain aligned.
Lazio's sixth-place standing, six points from two matches, reflects a side that has yet to drop a point. Whether that record holds as the schedule thickens — European fixtures have already prompted calendar adjustments in the coming weeks — will test the squad's depth in ways the opening fortnight has not. For now, Frattesi is the clearest evidence that Gattuso's Lazio have at least one midfielder capable of deciding matches.