Virtus Bologna challenges Tortona and thinks about the Italian Cup

Bologna, 8 February 2025 - The double challenge of Euroleague, Virtus returns to focus on the championship. Tomorrow, February 9, at 19.30:XNUMX pm the team of Dusko Ivanovich will be on the field at PalaEnergica Paolo Ferraris from Casale Monferrato to face the Bertram Derthona Tortona.

The continental parenthesis closed for the moment, the V Black are Expectations for tomorrow's league match with Tortona, and then, always in Piemonte, from the confrontation next Wednesday, in Turin, the seat of the Final Eight of Italian Cup, in the quarter-finals with Armani Milano.

Before the Cup, however, we must focus on the threat Tortona, an opponent that is anything but easy to face in the match that awaits the Bianconeri tomorrow evening.

La Bertram Derthona Tortona, after the defeats of Trieste in the championship and of Athens against AEK in the BCL, hosts the Virtus Segafredo Bologna, which comes from the success against Venice in the championship and the double round of Euroleague with Paris Basketball e Partizan Belgrade.

Tortona without Arthur Strautins is out due to an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee, out for the rest of the season, while Virtus as usual gives up on Ante Zizic due to olecranon bursitis in the left elbow and Will Clyburn for a partial lesion to the plantar fascia of the left foot.

Two exes instead, Kyle Weems it was in Bologna for four seasons from the 2019/20 to the 2022/23 season, a club with which he won the Eurocup in 2022, the Scudetto in 2021 and the two Italian Super Cups in 2021 and 2022. His averages in national competitions were 10.3 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, while in Virtus there is Andrejs Grazulis who played in Tortona in A2 invintage 2019/2020, averaging 16.8 points and 8.3 rebounds.

Previous

This will be the race number 22 between the teams, with Bologna ahead 16-5 overall but trailing 3-4 in the matches played at Derthona's home. The two teams also met in the quarterfinals of the last playoffs (Segafredo won 3-2).

The first leg

In the regular season the teams they have already faced each other Wednesday 6 November 2024 in the recovery of the 4th day (previously postponed due to the flood that had hit Emilia-Romagna), when Virtus prevailed 85-81, thanks to the 16 points of the decisive Morgan and the 14 points of Zizic and Belinelli.

Referees: Race direction entrusted to Baldini, Quarta, Galasso.  

Radio & TV:  Live TV on Dazn, radio on Nettuno Bologna Uno, delayed on Trc.