Fortitudo, only goal. A toast under the tree

Win to give yourself and your fans an even more peaceful Christmas. Postponement for the Fortitude which at 20,45pm challenges the PalaDozza (live RaiSport) Toast on day number 17 of A2 series. Fresh from the victory against Forlì, Attilio Caja's team is waiting for the test, relaunching its ambitions to return to climb the rankings. Fortitudo in crescendo, waiting for any market news in direction Vencato, leaving Orzinuovi, remains in the crosshairs and that even without Menalo, Sabatini and still Cusin, will try to make a virtue of necessity, with a reduced rotation, but ready to put a lot of energy and determination on the field.

The push of PalaDozza will be more fundamental than ever in a challenge that will pit it against another great team in the championship like Toast which after a difficult start seems to have changed pace in the last month and a half. The team directed by Piero Bucchi from Bologna and which includes Gianmarco Arletti, son of Umberto, a member of Fortitudo and president of the Academy, presents itself under the Two Towers also determined to confirm its climb in the rankings.

"Toast it's a team with promotion ambitions and it arrives at the best moment – ​​says Marco Carretto assistant coach –. It comes from 4 victories in the last 5 games and has an untrue ranking, having had a very complicated path in terms of injuries, which have never allowed it to find a balance".

It remains to be seen whether or not the great former Mark Ogden will be used, and in what ways, out for over two months. The greeting on social media by his replacement Almeida, signed precisely to plug the absence of the Californian and the words of Bucchi in recent days "Ogden? He's almost ready and could play on Sunday", make one lean towards the return to the field of the former player who last year had enchanted the white and blue people, we'll see if that's the case, but before the opponents the Fortitude she has to think about herself.

These are sad days instead for a champion of the Fortitude. Carlton Myers' father has passed away. The Fortitudo player himself announced the news on his Instagram page, posting a series of photos of his father in his memory. A loss that has affected the club of President Stefano Tedeschi, who in an official statement confirmed his embrace and closeness to Carlton and his family.

Tedeschi who in the meantime complimented Gianni Petrucci, re-elected president of the basketball federation and Umberto Arletti, re-elected to the federal council. Finally, Ugo Ducarelli enters the technical staff of Caja.

The other matches: Cividale-Orzinuovi 87-89, Urania Milano-Nardò 85-62, Rieti-Cento, Verona-Rimini, Cantù-Udine, Forlì-Vigevano, Pesaro-Juvi Cremona, Turin-Avellino, Libertas Livorno-Piacenza.

The ranking: Rimini 28; Udine and Cantù 24; Cividale and Urania Milano 22; Forlì, Rieti, Avellino, Orzinuovi and Verona 18; Fortitudo Bologna 16; Turin, Toast and Pesaro 14; Cremona 12; Cento, Nardò and Libertas Livorno 10; Vigevano 8; Piacenza 6.