The return to the field after a two-week stop for a path that – except for upheavals – will now be non-stop until the first ten days of April. Molisana Magnolia Campobasso completes his February at the Arena to challenge Ragusa in what will be – temporally – the fourth internal match in succession. The #fiorid Acciaio will do it with an extra Lawrence (the American with a French passport who arrived this week to replace the injured Nina Presmasunac), but with all the unknowns of the case linked to a double week without competitions and, consequently, also two appointments on the parquet (the trips to Empoli and Venice) still without certainty about their temporal location.
BACK ON THE PARQUET Beyond these aspects, however, on the eve of the #fiorid Acciaio coach Mimmo Sabatelli prefers to focus on returning to the parquet.
«We re-embrace the field, we return to play and we hope to be able to give our best, even in the awareness of having before us a commitment that is not at all simple against a team that is fighting for the top positions of the standings. It is certainly a complicated challenge, but we will try to do our best to the end ».
DISCOMMON Rossoblù and Iblee, among other things, are united by the fact that they boast a substantial credit with fate due to the many physical ailments that have marked their season so far.
«Certainly complicated situations for both – acknowledges Sabatelli – even if their roster is certainly deeper than ours, but this is the situation we have to deal with and we cannot move differently ».
LAWRENCE AVAILABLE For the challenge that will close in February, however, the rossoblùs will be able to have the latest addition made available by the club to remedy the injury of the Croatian Nina Premasunac: that is the US winger (with a French passport) Alyssa Lawrence.
«She immediately put herself at the service of the team – adds the coach rossoblù – he has a great desire and determination to do well, even if, in these cases, a little time is always needed to get the best out of the team balance. But we are confident that he can fully provide us with his contribution ».
MATCH BY MATCH The challenge with the islanders, among other things, will open a week in which between Thursday evening (at 20.30 in Sesto San Giovanni) and Saturday (at 19.30 in Schio) the Campobassane will have two key crossroads in front of them in perspective.
“Our mantra – replies the trainer of the magnolias – but it does not change: one race at a time even if we are aware that this cycle of competition will strongly draw our prospects for the end of the season ».
SPECIAL SITUATION Moreover, in a particular extra-aesthetic context for the news related to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the internal moment of the Rossoblu is certainly ‘delicate’, albeit in other terms and in different contexts, amidst physical annoyances and a rhythm that, after the race with Faenza last December 19th, he struggled to be found.
«The moment is special – reports Sabatelli – and it would also be useless to deny it, but it would also be useless to feel sorry for ourselves for the current situation of physical problems. The first thought must be to bring home a success that has been missing for some time and concentrate on succeeding to the end in such an intent ».
FLASHBACK IBLEO Maybe, against a team that has infinite solutions both in the external and internal packages, trying to refer to the previous first leg, when – it was November 28 – the rossoblù managed to give a lot of trouble to the island team, successful to bring the inertia of the dispute from his only in the last quarter.
«They certainly have several options of value, but that match could show us a way. And that is that to get out of the parquet with the two points it will be necessary to play at the limit of perfection, working intensely, but, personally, I am confident of the work that my team will be able to do ».
MATCH PLAN Appearance that declined in the game plan elaborated for the circumstance has – in the words of coach Mimmo Sabatelli – a series of very specific priorities.
«We will have to limit their guns, in the awareness that they all have elements capable of having points in their hands, but in particular how many, in this phase, represent points of reference for their game. Therefore, the priority will be on defense. We will have to have a determined attitude on this front and it is the only aspect that I believe cannot be postponed to win the dispute ».
CLOSE TO COCO The challenge with the iblee, among other things, will also be the occasion for a strong message of closeness on the theme of dog adoptions and, specifically, with the support of the Carpinone kennel there will be an infopoint at the entrance to the Arena where it will be possible to participate in the campaign to support Coco, a two-year-old dog who has been hit and is in dire need of medical attention. Not only that, at the time of presentation, the rossoblùs will enter the field bringing with them some puppies to further point out the message.
ON THE TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL The match against Ragusa will also have the window of the live national television on channel 411 of digital terrestrial and the passage ‘in the clear’ on the Lbftv League platform, having been designated as the confrontation of the week in the Techfind Serie A1.
On the arbitration front, a mixed triad composed of Simone Patti di Montesilvano, Valeria Lanciotti of Porto San Giorgio and Maria Giulia Forni of Cervia direct the operations.
