Serie A2, Torino is expected at PalaDozza on Sunday. Travel sickness and aches: so many problems for Fortitudo

Fortitudo counts the injured and tries to restart. The fourth away defeat, in five games, suffered at the PalaSojourner in Rieti, stings and not a little at home Effe.

More than Milan, like Rimini, perhaps less than Lecce where Fortitudo slipped dangerously and unexpectedly against Nardò, the defeat suffered by Real Sebastiani confirms an idiosyncrasy for challenges away from the PalaDozza.

In practice, to find the only away victory for Matteo Fantinelli and his teammates, we have to go back a month, to October 12th with the success at the PalaRadi in Cremona over Juvi by 70-79.

Beyond all that is debatable is the inconsistency shown so far by the team in terms of results, but looking beyond that, also in terms of performances, from match to match, but often even within the same match. This is exactly what happened in Rieti, a decent first half, excellent in defense at the end, positive in attack, second half decidedly more difficult where the defense holds, but in attack it was very difficult to score.

It is right to grant Effe some mitigating circumstances, including the decisive whistle for Gabriel's foul on Monaldi with a handful of seconds to go, which, seen and reviewed, leaves many doubts.

Good defense that Devis Cagnardi managed to record, questionable the attack that doesn't turn. The emblem of the Effe was the performance of captain Matteo Fantinelli, unstoppable in the first half, below par in the second half where he tries to play with the pain of the injury that puts him out in the decisive moments. Due to physical and technical characteristics Sabatini is not the alter ego of Fantinelli who remains irreplaceable in the white and blue chessboard.

The usual chronic problems continue to affect the performances of the Fante who against Rieti in the end had to stop. The same can be said for Pietro Aradori on the field for a handful of minutes in Rieti due to the worsening of a calf problem.

Yesterday afternoon the two underwent tests and will be reassessed in the coming days to understand whether or not they will be used, and in what proportions, in the challenge against Turin. In the end, even if bruised, they should both be there.

Fortitudo is a top-ranked team at full strength, but if you have to deal with the ailments of the two, the absence of Cusin, the only real change for Freeman, and a poor moment for other players like Panni and Mian among the outside players and Battistini and Gabriel among the big men, everything becomes much more complicated.

In Rieti, apart from a stoic Bolpin and in a context in which the team did not perform, even the debut of Leo Menalo who started training with the team on Monday, was not the best.