Transfer to Tuscany for Pallacanestro Biella, committed tomorrow night at PalaCarrara against Giorgio Tesi Group Pistoia, in the recovery of the twenty-first day of the A2 Old Wild West championship, Girone Verde.
The red and white of coach Brienza are experiencing an extremely positive season, which began with the success in the LNP Super Cup and continued with a journey to the limits of perfection in the league which is worth the current second place in the standings. Compared to the first leg match, won by Pistoia at the Forum, the Tuscans have changed an American, inserting Gage Davis in a well-oiled mechanism.
Not an easy match to start in March, a month that will see the rossoblù take the field seven times in just twenty-five days, a tour de force that will significantly mark the path of coach Andrea Zanchi’s boys.
The rossoblùs will take the field with a yellow-blue paint on their face, in support of the Ukrainian population in this extremely difficult moment.
Two-ball tomorrow, Wednesday 2 March, at 20.30.
I ROSTER
Giorgio Tesi Group Pistoia: 0 Simone Caglio, 2 Gianluca Della Rosa, 4 Daniel Utomi, 5 Milos Divac, 15 Lorenzo Saccaggi, 16 Angelo Del Chiaro, 18 Daniele Magro, 19 Gregorio Allinei, 20 Gage Davis, 24 Carl Wheatle, 25 Joonas Riismaa. Coach: Nicola Brienza.
Edilnol Basketball Biella: 7 Jacopo Soviero, 8 Gianmarco Bertetti, 10 Luca Infante, 11 Carlo Porfilio, 15 Tommaso Bianchi, 16 Luca Vincini, 20 Matteo Pollone, 35 Luca Loro, 36 Alessandro Morgillo, 41 Kenny Hasbrouck, 44 Steven Davis. Coach: Andrea Zanchi.
THE EX OF THE GAME
Among the red and white ranks we find several ex of Pallacanestro Biella: Carl Wheatle, Lorenzo Saccaggi and Gregorio Allinei on the pitch, Marco Sambugaro behind the desk. On the other hand, Tommaso Bianchi, for a season in Pistoia.
PRE-MATCH DECLARATIONS
Damiano Olla (General Manager Edilnol Biella) – “Pistoia, together with Ravenna, is the real surprise of the season compared to the forecasts at the beginning of the season. We are facing a team that has changed since the first leg, they changed an American but this did not affect the results, and for this they must be given great credit. We will not make any calculations, we are back in the race for salvation and we will go to Pistoia to play our game. Let’s take it one step at a time, it’s important to play a real match for all forty minutes “.
Matteo Pollone (Ala Edilnol Biella) – “We expect a match against a very strong opponent, we will have to start well and have great energy throughout the match, especially from a defensive point of view. We know that the Pistoia crowd is very hot and can be a factor, especially considering their ranking which sees them in second place. Our ranking is better than a while ago, but we have to keep thinking about one race at a time. We have been training for ten days for this match which opens a cycle of seven races in twenty-five days. We must be ready ”.
THE MEDIA: WHERE TO FOLLOW THE GAME
The meeting will be told with real-time updates on both the Facebook and Instagram profiles of Pallacanestro Biella. The match will be broadcast live on LNP Pass and via radio on RadioCity4You, Official Radio of the rossoblùs, which can be listened to via the dedicated App downloadable at https://www.radio-city.it/app. The match will be broadcast on a deferred basis on ReteBiella TV (digital terrestrial channels 91 and 190), the official television of Pallacanestro Biella, on Thursday 3 March at 9.00 pm.
Photo: Laura Malvarosa (Basketball Biella)
