Serie A2: the seal in the derby with Forlì is the fourth in the last five games with Caja. In the meantime, on Thursday there is the meeting with the fans at the store. Defense plus Gabriel: Fortitudo now aims high

Fought, suffered, deserved, having filed away the victory on Saturday night against Forlì, Fortitudo resumes training today in view of next Sunday's challenge with a Brindisi that speaks Bolognese, led on the bench by Piero Bucchi and in which Gianmarco Arletti plays, son of Umberto, partner of Sporting Fortitudo, the parent company of the group, and president of Fortitudo Academy.

We start again from the defense, from the team's desire to win and from those two final baskets by Kenny Gabriel that allowed coach Attilio Caja's Effe to score their fourth victory in the last 5 matches, continuing their pursuit of the top of the standings.

After the first 16 days of the championship, the Flats Service balance is now in perfect balance, 8 victories and as many defeats, but the trend of the last period cannot be seen as a starting point from which to continue the climb.

Tenth in the standings, right in the play-in zone, Fortitudo is awaited at the end of December by the internal appointment with Brindisi and then by the challenge of the 29th that closes the calendar year of the white and blues. Step by step, thinking one game at a time, coach Caja and his staff met yesterday to plan the weekly work, take stock of the situation and see the aspects of the last challenge with Forlì, what worked and what needs to be improved. A lot of physical, tactical and technical work awaits in the next month a Fortitudo that certainly does not want to stop.

A final fundamental step to take for Matteo Fantinelli and his teammates, who hope with Gherardo Sabatini out until April, Leo Menalo unavailable until mid-late January, to recover at least Marco Cusin. The return of the center would allow Caja to rest in his natural role of 4 Leonardo Battistini, lengthening the rotations also among the big men of a team that is slowly recovering Pietro Aradori and is also finding important minutes from Alessandro Panni.

Fortitudo, which on Thursday evening at 18 pm is expected by a crowd at the Store in via Riva Reno, where the entire team and technical staff will take selfies, sign autographs and hang out with the white and blue fans who want to participate and who for sure, given the renewed great feeling between the Effe people and their favourites, will be very numerous at the store.