Playoffs underway: Olimpia Milano challenges Trento to overturn the home field advantage

The most difficult playoffs of the last 20 years start tonight (18 pm) with an Olimpia Milano curious to find out in Trento if it will have the strength to overturn the home field advantage and clip the wings of one of the most exciting realities of the season. Trento is love and hate for Milan, against Aquila Armani won the 2018 championship and 3 other playoff series, but probably the few defeats are remembered much more: starting from the elimination in the Eurocup in '15, to the 4-1 "comeback" that ended the Repesa era in '17, up to the recent Coppa Italia final where the Trentino revolution bridled Milan.

Coach Messina's team will also have to start from this to have an extra gear, not for revenge, but technically to stop Trentino's transitions as soon as possible without making them think of playing on the whole field, the only way in which the comparison can not be in favor of EA7. "We will have to be very much a team in all the little things - says the coach -. If we can do it together we have the talent necessary to overcome the opposing home field factor".

Among the red and whites, doubts are spreading between Brooks and Causeur (pictured), between the Olimpia 'bomber' and a winner like the Frenchman, the balancer of the game. Milan wants to change pace, the Aquila of the very Milanese Galbiati wants to continue to amaze.

Sandro Pugliese