Fortitudo challenges Cantù at PalaDozza to tie the playoff series

Fortitudo try again. Having closed the gap in the playoff quarterfinal series with Cantù, with the Brianza team ahead 2-1, Fortitudo is trying to take advantage of the PalaDozza factor, to even the score and take the series to the tiebreaker of game five (if it happens on Tuesday, again in Desio where the first matches were played). At PalaDozza (tip-off at 20,30:77 p.m.) a performance of heart and character will be needed, just like the team showed on Thursday. We start again from the 68-2 of game three, to tie a series in which Fortitudo has shown its strengths and weaknesses. To try to get to 2-XNUMX and get to the tiebreaker, we need to start again from the fixed points, from what has done and is making the difference.

The first to underline is the PalaDozza factor: the choreography at the beginning of the match was splendid, the Fossa's cheering was incessant and, especially in the second half, it dragged the rest of the crowd along and pushed the team to make a comeback.

The public will continue to do its part, after yesterday's pre-emption, today the free sale of tickets still available starts, and will support Matteo Fantinelli and his teammates in large numbers and with enthusiasm. On the field, Attilio Caja's team will have to start again from its extraordinary defense. Already in game-one above all and partly in game-two we saw the defensive intensity of the white-blues, confirmed and if we want accentuated in the resumption of the match on Thursday, when Effe annihilated the attack from Brianza. Tonight we will need the same intensity, the same ferocity that characterized the last 20' of the series. Cantù is an excellent team, with 10 players of absolute level, for a Fortitudo that with the absence of Vencato and with Sabatini in recovery phase, rotates at most with 8 elements.

The reality is that for better or for worse the game, but in general the season of Flats Service passes through the vein of Kenny Gabriel. Absent in game-one and at the beginning of game-two, he tried to raise the quality in the second half of the second challenge in Desio with sufficient results, but without managing to make an impact. His importance was very different in the challenge on Thursday where Gabriel started badly again with 2 points in the first half, changed the challenge in the third fraction with 13 points that overturned the inertia of the comparison leading Effe to victory. This Gabriel is needed otherwise everything becomes harder. Mian recovering, Bolpin and Panni always on the ball, the reality of the facts is that the attack of Fortitudo cannot weigh entirely on the shoulders of Aradori and Fantinelli who remain the essential linchpins of a Fortitudo that wants to continue to dream and that to do so must beat Cantù.

Direction entrusted to Vita, Berlangieri and Centonza. Live streaming of the challenge on Lnp Pass, radio on Sanluchino and audio commentary on Canale 88.