
Key strength: Work rate
Box-to-box midfielder
In an SS Lazio side treading water at 8th in Serie A, 22-year-old Croatian midfielder Petar Sučić has become Marco Baroni's unlikely anchor. While the Biancocelesti navigate turbulent form—DWWWL in their last five—the €30 million-rated dynamo offers rare constancy. With 37 appearances and 1,807 minutes this campaign, Sučić has been ever-present, contributing 2 goals and 2 assists from his box-to-box station. Yet the most telling statistic sits in his disciplinary column: zero cards. In an era of midfield combat, this card-less season speaks to exceptional tactical intelligence—the kind of positional discipline that lets creators like Mattia Zaccagni flourish ahead of him. Sučić performs football's invisible work: pressing triggers, defensive transitions, and the selfless graft that binds Lazio's shape together. At just 22, he's already playing with veteran composure. He may never dominate headlines, but in a squad searching for consistency, he's become the one certainty Baroni can build around.