Serie A2: 18pm to continue the winning streak of 2025. Fortitudo: intensity and Thomas. Caja seeks answers in Verona

Exams in sports as in life never end. This is what happens in the next seven days at Fortitude called to a trio of challenges, fascinating, compelling and which could give even clearer dimensions on the future of the team led by Attilio CajaThe trio of challenges, which will continue on Wednesday with Cantù at the PalaDozza and then next Sunday again in Piazza Azzarita with Vigevano, begins this evening at 18pm from the Pala Agsm Aim in Verona where Matteo Fantinelli and his teammates will be busy with the Scaligera.

A far from easy comparison awaits the Flat Service against a rival who has the same points in the standings as the boys of president Stefano Tedeschi. A high-ranking confrontation for a Fortitudo that, fresh from four consecutive victories, with an unbeaten run in 2025 and 9 out of 11 in the second Caja era, will try to climb the standings again.

It requires a test of character, but also of quality, decidedly superior to that offered by Effe a week ago with Piacenza and which had upset coach Caja after the match. The opponent is of a high level, with elements of great quality, so Fortitudo will have to try to raise the revs of its engine and have a better performance.

The return this week of Leo Menalo, who is also a suspect today, among the eleven seniors available to Caja for the stands, has helped raise the level of play in training, the ever-increasing inclusion of Donte Thomas in the team has helped and will help the team on the field in terms of physicality under the basket, rebounds and defensive quality, starting from the match against Verona, in which the American former Torino and Cantù player will certainly have more space available compared to his fleeting appearance against Piacenza.

Still absent are Gherardo Sabatini and Kenny Gabriel. On the pitch it will be a heated challenge, in the stands it will be a party with the Scaligera Verona which, on the occasion of the challenge with Flats Service, decided to propose again the launch of soft toys, to be donated to charities in Verona.

Race direction entrusted to Barbiero, Berlangieri, Chersicla. Radio & TV: live streaming on Lnp Pass, radio broadcast on Radio Sanluchino and audio commentary on Canale 88.

The other matches: Urania Milano-Cantù 63-57, Udine-Brindisi 79-90, Rieti-Cividale 90-71, Vigevano-Avellino, Orzinuovi-Juvi Cremona, Turin-Cento, Pesaro-Nardò, Rimini-Piacenza, Livorno-Forlì.

The ranking: Rimini and Udine 34; Cantù 32; Cividale 30; Urania Milano and Rieti 28; Fortitudo Flats Service Bologna, Avellino and Verona 26; Forlì and Pesaro 24; Turin and Brindisi 20; Orzinuovi 18; Cremona 16; Vigevano, Cento and Libertas Livorno 14; Nardò 12; Piacenza 6.