Fortitudo wants to keep running. The big match with Cantù for the sixth seal

Traditions and noble quarters, rivalries and history, but the challenge that awaits this evening is Fortitude, committed at 20.30 pm at PalaDozza with Cantu, is this and much more. A challenge that rekindles the historic rivalry between clubs and fans for the past, but also for the present and the future, also returns to the PalaDozza.

Fortitudo and Cantù are in fact two of the teams with the greatest ambition and budget in the whole A2 series, so today's challenge becomes fundamental on one hand for Cantù to leave behind the defeat with Milan last Friday and on the other for Fortitudo to continue on its march towards the choice in the standings.

Ten wins in 12 games since Caja's return, 5 out of 5 in 2025, are confirmation of how the team has definitely started the right gear in the last 2 months and that it wants to continue doing so to continue its climb. The double home challenge with Cantù tonight and Vigevano on Sunday will be further fundamental steps.

In terms of formation, Fortitudo is moving towards confirming the 10 players deployed against Verona, with Leo Menalo diverted to the stands, giving space instead to a Leonardo Battistini excellent protagonist with Scaligera. Caja has restored confidence in the environment and has made a team grow in conviction and physical shape that after the start of the season with alternating current now seems on the right path.

A path that must be confirmed, with the quality of the group and with a Donte Thomas increasingly inserted in the team. To push the team there is also a public that continues to always support Matteo Fantinelli and his companions.

In the statistics of the first half of the season of the Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro, Fortitudo confirms its absolute leader with the four records object of the evaluation of total spectators (47.232 in 9 games), average spectators per game (5.248), overall takings (712.490 euros) and average takings (79.166 euros), with a percentage of PalaDozza filling up of 94.2 percent, second only to Rimini. Numbers that give credit to the great passion of the Fortitudo people.

Coach Nicola Brienza is presenting the challenge for Cantù. "Fortitudo is a team that has changed gear and is returning to the ranking positions that best suit them, given the quality of their investments and that of their roster. The game would therefore already be very very complicated in itself, but to this is clearly added the fact that in the last two games we have not been the best version of ourselves. In these days, however, we have done a good job, taking advantage of having played on Friday, which has allowed us to have a few more days to recover physically and also prepare for the game. McGee has also returned to training, we have not yet resolved the reservations about his use".

Referees - Match direction entrusted to Costa, Bartolini and Bertuccioli. Radio & TV - Live on Lnp Pass, radio commentary on Sanluchino and audio commentary on Canale 88.