Herons challenge Basket Golfo Piombino at PalaTenda: a Tuscan feud in Serie B

On Easter night the Herons they take to the field to try to exorcise one of their worst demons, that Basketball Gulf Piombino branded Solbat who in five direct confrontations with the Herons has left the field victorious four times. PalaTent of Piombino, where tonight at 20.30 pm the sixth chapter of this very particular all-Tuscan basketball 'feud' will take place, is also one of the few parquets on which coach's men Federico Barsotti in three years between Serie B e B National have never managed to assert themselves: "I don't know if it's appropriate to talk about a black beast, in the end over the years many players have changed on both sides – comments the leader of the Fabo –. Compared to the same first leg, which Piombino won by scoring some really complex and highly difficult baskets, the yellow and blues now adopt a different game system, the result of the ideas of the new coach, the foreigner has changed (out with the Italian-American Cartaino and in with the Dominican point guard with a Belgian passport Ortiz Farmhouse ndr) and therefore some references on the pitch are no longer the same. However, we too are much more compact than in the first part of the season and perhaps we have learned to manage some situations better, I am thinking for example of the final stages of the match".

The incredible success of PalaTagliate against Ravenna has excited the entire rossoblù environment. However, Barsotti does not want to trust, both because the precedents against Piombino are not on the side of Montecatini, both because the situation injured It remains complex at home for the rossoblù: Benites, the hero of the victorious comeback against Ravenna, only started working with the team again on Thursday, while Arrigoni never trained due to a severe back contracture. The medical staff will try everything to get the number 12 back on his feet, but the feelings about his use are not positive.

Filippo Palazzoni