Gustav Tang Isaksen, Lazio's Danish forward, has scored in back-to-back Serie A matches to help the biancocelesti reach the top of the table after ten rounds — and the club is now reportedly moving to secure his future.
The timing matters. Lazio sit first with 28 points from ten matches, a record of nine wins and one draw, and Isaksen has been central to that momentum. His equalizer against Cagliari on November 1 — converting at 1-1 after M'Bala Nzola had given the visitors the lead in the 20th minute — kept the comeback alive before Andrea Pinamonti settled it in the 83rd. Five days earlier, against Sassuolo away, Isaksen had put Lazio 2-1 up in the 13th minute, part of a 6-2 demolition that underlined just how clinical Gattuso's side can be when the press clicks. The Dane's contribution to that result was not decorative; it came at a moment when Sassuolo had just levelled, and it shifted the match's psychological weight decisively.
Across the season, Isaksen carries four goals and one assist from ten Serie A appearances, with an average rating of 6.99. Those numbers place him among the more productive wide forwards in the division, and they arrive after a summer that began with bilateral sports hernia surgery in July — a disruption that might have blunted a less focused player's start. Instead, Isaksen has found the continuity that eluded him in patches before, and Gattuso's system appears to have given him a defined role rather than a rotating brief.
The 25-year-old's AI overall sits at 71 out of 100, with a potential of 74 — modest headroom, perhaps, but the profile of a player who is close to his ceiling and performing near it. That is a useful thing to be when your club is leading Serie A and your coach, Ivan Gennaro Gattuso, is publicly demanding that his squad maintain belief and determination as the standard for staying competitive. Gattuso has warned that Lazio become a normal team the moment that edge softens — a framing that puts the onus on every contributor, not just the headline names.
Reports now indicate Lazio want to extend Isaksen's contract, with a previous interest from Milan noted as background context. Whether that interest was concrete or exploratory, the club's desire to act suggests they view him as a structural part of what Gattuso is building, not a peripheral asset. A player scoring in consecutive matches, contributing to a side that has conceded only eight goals in ten games, earns that kind of institutional confidence.
Lazio's next challenge will be sustaining this level against opponents who have had time to study them. Isaksen, for now, is giving them very little to adjust to.