Beli Factor Wants to Raise Virtus with Trento

Virtus turns the page and tries to start again from the first half of Istanbul. Having left behind the challenge with Efes of former Luca Banchi, the team directed by Dusko Ivanovic is focusing on tomorrow's fundamental confrontation with Trento. Returned yesterday afternoon from the Bosphorus, today the V Nere are awaiting the finishing session in view of the confrontation at the Segafredo Arena. Captain Marco Belinelli is back at full disposal, after Ivanovic had granted him a turn of rest, while the conditions of Rayjon Tucker are being evaluated, who, with Clyburn the only unavailable, would be the seventh foreigner of Virtus.

Given the 6+6 rule of the championship, the player left out in tomorrow's match against Trento could be, if he were not in top condition, Tucker. Also under observation are a Grazulis in clear decline and a Holiday who still can't get going. Doubts but also certainties.

The performance offered in the first half of the match against Efes was of good quality, as were the performances of the Georgian warrior Toko Shengelia, with a positive contribution from Matt Morgan and "future captain" Alessandro Pajola. In anticipation of tomorrow's match against Trento, Virtus must start again from the good things it did in Istanbul and from the spirit that the team showed on the field for the first 20 minutes, before motivation and home field advantage definitively turned the match in favor of Efes.

Tomorrow's match against Trento represents a fundamental point in the path of this season for the Bianconeri. A victory would allow the Bianconeri to distance themselves in the standings from the team that it would be too reductive to call the revelation of this first part of the season. Paolo Galbiati brought Trento to first place in the standings and guided them to the conquest of their first historic trophy, the Coppa Italia, lifted by captain Forray at the Inalpi Arena in Turin on February 16. A virtue that tomorrow at the Segafredo Arena will also try to overturn the -8 of the first leg, after the 87-79 of last December 22.

On Tuesday at 17.30:25 pm, the Adidas Shop will be inaugurated at Casa Virtus, in via dell'Arcoveggio. In the presence of some players from the first team, the official game uniform will also be unveiled on the occasion of the 21th anniversary of the EuroLeague. Returning to the championship, today the rest of the XNUMXst matchday of Serie A will be played, which ends tomorrow with the bug match at the Segafredo Arena. Among the scheduled challenges, the away match on the Pistoia field of Brescia, which shares the top of the standings with Trento and Virtus.

The other matches: Cremona-Naples (played yesterday), Sassari-Venice, Tortona-Varese, Pistoia-Brescia, Milan-Treviso, Reggio Emilia-Trapani, Trieste-Scafati.

The ranking: Brescia, Trento and Virtus 30, Trapani 28, Milan and Reggio Emilia 26, Trieste 24, Tortona 22, Venice 20, Treviso 16, Sassari 14, Scafati and Varese 12, Pistoia, Cremona and Naples 10.