The coach compliments the hosts: "Ours was a new defense". Ivanovic: "Lack of confidence. Too many easy conclusions missed"

You have to know how to lose with style, it's true. But congratulations to your opponents become almost a way to mask...

di Sports Editorial
23 March 2025
Coach Dusko Ivanovic (Ciamillo)

Coach Dusko Ivanovic (Ciamillo)

You have to know how to lose with style, it's true. However, congratulations to your opponents become almost a way to mask your own problems. Dusko Ivanovic congratulates us with Trieste, who deserves the success for what she showed on the pitch, for the grit and determination she showed when she found herself behind. And the Virtus? She got lost, as had already happened several times during this season. But on the field in Trieste, which also brings back sweet memories – the promotion to Serie A after just one year of purgatory in A2 – Virtus disappeared from the scene. Few words, for the coach. Who perhaps – at least this is the hope of the Virtus fans – wants to reserve them for the team. To try to turn around a bad trend. "Congratulations to Trieste – says Ivanovic –, who played a good game, especially in the final moments. We played good defense and controlled the game, then we lost confidence, missed easy shots that Trieste put in there. And that's why we lost". Why so many mistakes in conclusions? "They were open shots, easy, well constructed from the advantages we had taken in the post with Shengelia and Clyburn. I think it's a question of confidence, which was lacking. Sometimes this can happen too". The problem is that it happens quite often.

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