With all the turmoil the team endured throughout preseason, it was probably not surprising to see Lazio's streak of seven years without a clean sheet in their opening home game of the league season extended after only three minutes.
Magnus Kofod Andersen pounced and curled a magnificent shot into the top corner, far beyond Ivan Provedel's reach, after Nicolo Rovella mishandled a Venezia throw-in. The departure of talisman Ciro Immobile to Lazio was one of the team's summertime changes, but Taty Castellanos quickly established himself as a worthy substitute by pickingpocketing Michael Svoboda and burying a one-on-one opportunity to restore parity. After that, the hosts had complete control of the game, and it was only a matter of time until Castellanos sent off some more pyrotechnics. He missed his first two opportunities, one of which was a close-range header that went just wide.