“A very difficult match but we will do everything we can to win”: President Maurizio Coruna has scheduled the first leg against Edelfox Grosseto on Wednesday 30 March, the third to last match of the regular season.
New Mirco Bertolucci line-up from the victory they won over bottom rear Matera at Vecchio Mercato, a victory that nonetheless gave a new impetus to the Rossoneri rankings by placing them in seventh place, qualifying them sportingly for the play-offs and with the goal of sixth place, which means post-season without going through through the playoffs.
The opponent on Wednesday night is Edilfox Grosseto: Team Maremma is going through a negative moment of the season. For Baji’s team, which is ninth in the overall standings with 30 points, a victory is necessary so that it does not fall too far, risking the playoffs as in the last tournament. Maremmans returns from two consecutive defeats, away to Montebello 6-5 and a home defeat to Sandrigo 1 to 0. The Euroleague.
“This is the worst time to face this team. It comes from two defeats in a row, so going home now means finding an environment that wants to get back to scoring points, also taking into account the expectations the company had on this team at the start of the season. This is the Maremma team. A well-organized team – President Corona continues – an opponent who must be approached with caution and challenged very calmly without having the enthusiasm to go in search of an immediate match ban. The quality of his team 2.
Personally I have a lot of respect for the opponents we meet – Corona concludes – but on Wednesday we can’t go wrong with our approach, for us the match against Grosseto is the cornerstone of trying to win sixth place. This is the moment where we can’t make mistakes, here we go. The reward has already been played at Monza, now we have to be humble and united and try to bring the result home.”
Edelfox Grosseto missed a great opportunity to get close to sixth place occupied by Valdagno to leave Montebello without points and then lose at home to Sandrigo. Now the red and white team is in seventh place with 30 points, with a score of 9 wins, 3 draws and 10 defeats: with 76 goals scored and 95 goals. The top scorer is Saavedra with 21 goals, followed by Franchi with 18 goals. But we present in detail the Tuscan team that last season, after 42 years, returned to the A1 series, immediately adapting to the new category and conquering the all-important redemption at the end of the season. The bench remained firmly in the hands of Federico Bagi, formerly Follonica, the rescue leader he won last season. There are only three players left from the last tournament, starting with Captain Pablo Saavedra (1989), the heart of this team in recent years, the champion of promotion and salvation for the last tournament, the team’s top scorer with 21 goals, Argentine Mario Rodriguez. (1987) The former Follonica with the role of the defensive beacon and the other from Follonica, 8 goals scored by Stefano Bagi (1994) the team’s third top scorer with 16 goals. Seven new faces to search for an important position, Giovanni Ministi (1990) of Follonica (1990) arrived between the goal convoys and Bared Sassetti (1987) of his deputy Siena. With them are five new players with different characteristics starting with Alessandro Franchi of Follonica (1991) former Scandiano deputy scorer with 18 goals; then two high-quality foreigners, Argentine-German defender Nacivic (1995) (former Argentine youth international) and the “tall” Englishman but raised in Portugal, Alex Mount (1998); Two young men close the team, Follonica, Circe Capella (2001) ex Follonica and Grosseto Doc Lorenzo Biancochi (2003) ex Follonica and Castiglione.
In the first leg, on December 22, Edelfox Grosseto surrendered in “Pala Terrazi” 4-3, due to a goal scored by Galpas 27 seconds before the end of the match. Red and White advanced with a goal from Stefano Bagi. Wednesday is the fourth match in the Italian league between the two teams last season, which the Ligurians won 4-1 and 3-1.
It will take place on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 8.45 pm at the PalaMercurio in Grosseto
EDILFOX CP GROSSETO 1951 – H. SARZANA
Referees: Josef Celicia of Giovinazzo (BA) and Francesco Stallone of Giovinazzo (BA)
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