Alessandro Pajola leads Virtus to victory: "We must improve for the championship"

Pajola, decisive against Brescia, underlines the importance of improving to win the championship with Virtus.

di FILIPPO MAZZONI
14 June 2025
Pajola, decisive against Brescia, underlines the importance of improving to win the championship with Virtus.

Pajola, decisive against Brescia, underlines the importance of improving to win the championship with Virtus.

His triple gave the maximum advantage to the Virtus, on 81-76. But Alexander Pajola (pictured Ciamillo) is important not only for the attack, but also for what he produces in defense, in terms of intensity, aggressiveness and recovered balls. Immediately after the comparison with Brescia, Captain Futuro spoke to Radio Rai.

And of course we started with talking about Shengelia. "A champion, a top player. Luckily he plays with us."

But Pajola, who should reach his 500th game in a Virtus jersey this evening, is looking ahead. He knows that the series is far from decided. He knows that he and his teammates, if they want to win it title, they have to do something more. Despite the important and valuable success in race-one.

"Something went wrong in the approach to the match. We were always chasing – the words of Pajola, who makes his voice heard on the pitch even with his theoretically more experienced teammates –. If we want to go far we have to change something. And improve".

It's hard to disagree with someone like Pajola.

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