Winning to continue cultivating the championship dream, still remaining in the playoff race and not having to suffer another bitter disappointment. With their backs against the wall after the home defeat in game one, Cecilia Zandalasini and her teammates are called to get up immediately so as not to see their season definitively compromised. At 6pm Virtus takes the field at the PalaMinardi in Ragusa, at the home of former Lino Lardo’s Passalacqua, 0-1 down. At Virtus we need to reset and start again to leave the unexpected knockout behind. There is no longer any margin for error, the Bianconeri must try to confirm what they did in the regular season, that is to say, go to Ragusa, impact the series and bring it back for a possible game three, scheduled for May 1st at the Segafredo Arena .
“It’s a game in which we have no choice, we have to win. It seems that we play better away from home. On Wednesday we made mistakes in defense where we have to improve our choices, Ragusa shot 50 percent from 3 points – underlines coach Pierre Vincent -. We did better in attack, we need to find easy baskets and a few more fouls, we need to manage the game better on a mental level and not lose energy on things we can’t control, such as challenging the refereeing, but we need to focus on ourselves to give. the best”.
A very different team performance will be needed from the one offered on Wednesday in which Virtus was not enough with the points from Zandalasini and Dojkic and a good performance from André under the scoreboards.
Filippo Mazzoni
