Fortitudo: Last Challenge at Modigliani Forum to Decide Playoff Destiny

Playoff or play in? The post season of the Fortitude is decided in the last 40 minutes. Ironically, the Effe season ends at 18,30:XNUMX pm in that Modigliani Forum di Livorno where the year had begun triumphantly for the president's company Stefano Tedeschi, with captain Matthew Fantinelli and his companions who had raised their arms to the sky Super Cup, a title that brought a trophy back to the Fortitudo trophy cabinet after many years and which seemed to be the preamble to a brilliant season.

And instead, bad luck in the form of too many people is also an accomplice, but not only. injuries with the overwork required by Dr. Stefano Quadrelli and the white-blue physiotherapy staff to give first Cagnardi and then Caja a team that lives up to expectations, Fortitudo's season has been very unstable to say the least. Injuries but not only that, behind it is a team that was poorly assembled in the summer and that along the way, despite those adjustments, has confirmed all its critical issues.

The problems? Average age not very young, the terrible season between injury and attitude of Kenny Gabriel, who should have made the difference. And a team often not up to the level of what the generous white-blue people - today there will be 250 Bolognese - expect and deserve.

The challenge of Livorno, combined with the results of the direct competitors Verona, Turin e Milan, will give the final position of a Flat Service that it will be difficult to get a direct place in the playoffs, the seventh would be achieved in the event of today's victory and the defeat of the 3 opponents, but which instead will have to pass through the Caudine Forks of the play-in.

A different path from what was expected at the start of the season and where injuries and poor performances have often dominated, undermining the certainties of the team that with Rimini suffered its fourth consecutive defeat, but not that of a fan base that wants to believe until the end.

The other races: Verona-Pesaro, Udine-Turin, Orzinuovi-Cividale, Cantù-Vigevano, Cento-Forlì, Brindisi-Urania Milan, Cremona-Avellino, Piacenza-Rieti, Rimini-Nardò.

The ranking: Udine 58; Rimini 52; Cantù 48; Forlì 46; Rieti and Cividale 44; Verona 42; Turin, Milan and Fortitudo Flats Service Bologna 40; Avellino, Pesaro and Brindisi 38; Orzinuovi 32; Cento 28; Libertas Livorno and Cremona 26; Vigevano 24; Nardò 22; Piacenza 14.