BPER Rari Nantes Savona – Pro Recco: the Biancocelesti’s journey starts again from the Zanelli big match – WATERPOLO PEOPLE

Exactly one week after the semi-final of the Italian Cup played last Saturday in Albaro, the top two in the class find themselves face to face again. In the match of the seventh and final day of the championship round of the A1 championship, second-placed BPER Rari Nantes Savona challenges Zanelli, kick-off scheduled for tomorrow at 3pm with live TV on RaiSport + HD, Pro Recco, already certain of first place in the standings which guarantees the home advantage for the entire duration of the playoffs. The framework for the championship semi-finals, starting on May 1st, has already been defined, the match cannot affect the general ranking in any way but one of the classics of the national tradition always finds reasons of interest. The defeat on penalties suffered on Sunday against AN Brescia put an end to the extraordinary streak of consecutive victories inaugurated by Belgrade’s triumph in the 2021 Champions League: eleven trophies in a row have enriched the club’s trophy case, establishing an impressive hegemony both nationally and internationally . The single misstep does not in the least detract from the value of a group that remains the strongest ever, has accepted the defeat with great elegance and has dived back into training with great intensity, eager to reaffirm its supremacy straight away. The defeat against the Lombards must represent a precious warning for the Biancocelesti: never lose intensity and concentration in decisive matches because the risks increase, the values ​​level out and surprises are around the corner. For the team coached by Angelini, tomorrow’s match will represent the last opportunity to refine both the athletic condition and the game’s automatisms in view of the end-of-year sprint which will begin on Saturday 27th in Berlin with the second leg of the Euro Cup quarter-finals against Spandau and will then continue with game 1 of the championship semi-final against AN Brescia on Wednesday 1st May. The hosts, regardless of their opponent, will enter the pool to try to impose their own playing philosophy, well aware of the difficulty of the match but equally ready to take advantage of the slightest possibility of space granted by their rivals.

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