Basketball B Nazionale: 20,30:XNUMX pm at PalaRuggi Faenza arrives. Virtus wants to forget Ragusa. Galetti: "We need to grit our teeth"

Straight back on the pitch this evening to forget Sunday's joke in Ragusa, the Virtus Imola will play the derby with the Blacks Faenza (20.30 pm). A tough match against the fourth strongest team in the league, the return to PalaRuggi as an opponent of the former captain Francesco Magagnoli. V Imolese must return to move up the standings and to do so they will need a great performance: "It will be a very emotional match - comments coach Gianluigi Galetti -, there might not be important percentages on either side. They are in a particular moment, I expect a match that will be dominated more by defenses than by attacks, a chess match where no move must be made wrong. After Ragusa we immediately trained, while there were two on the eve of the derby; we hope that the condition can support us for 40 minutes, these are matches where you should never leave anything to chance and must be played entirely. We will have a great team in front of us, strong and well placed in the standings". The yellow and blacks are returning from the away match in Ragusa, where for long stretches the V Imolese was ahead but arrived at the crucial moments out of breath, paying the price for flu and injuries: "The health situation is quite critical, three players have been weakened by a virus, among them Ricci has lost three kilos. Kadjividi has suffered a blow to an eyebrow arch. We have been managing Masciarelli's situation for some time now, he is not in optimal conditions, we have been dragging this problem along for a while, I hope there is no worsening. In these conditions it is never easy to face a close challenge, we will have to grit our teeth".

The ranking: Legnano 38; Treviglio Brianza 36; San Vendemiano 32; Blacks and Omegna 30; Capo d'Orlando 28; Casale Monferrato, Mestre, Fidenza and Agrigento 24; Andrea Costa, Vicenza, Lumezzane and Virtus 22; Desio and Piacenza 18; Crema 14; Saronno 12; Ragusa and Fiorenzuola 10.