“This opportunity that the boys took advantage of and which brought us to the final four makes us very happy.” Marco Bonitta is pleased. His Consar, despite absences and ailments, is also standing out in the ‘post season’. The Giallorossi coach, in his last games on the Ravenna bench before his experience in the USA, led his team to the final stage of the Italian Cup. On Saturday in Cuneo, Consar will face Grottazzolina in the semi-final. At stake is a place in the final the following day, against the winner of the other semi-final, Porto Viro-Brescia. Ravenna eliminated Prata in two games with a double 3-1: “The level – explained Bonitta, forced to miss out on Bovolenta, called up to the national team, and Arasowan, in progress, due to an ankle problem – is not However, given the absences of Prata, the technical level will rise significantly. This will allow our young players to deal with something important, which will allow us to draw further and important indications.” Consar will find themselves facing the star of the regular season and playoffs, but will be put on the ropes until the third match of the playoff semi-final.
“There is a bit of regret – continued Bonitta – in having to face Grottazzolina once again, not so much for the opponent faced in the playoff semi-final, with whom there is also a healthy rivalry, but rather for the formula of the matches which, if they had been different, would have created a little more interest, for us, there is absolutely no problem.” In fact, in the lower part of the scoreboard, the two outsiders qualified, namely Porto Viro, which eliminated Cuneo, and Brescia, which eliminated Siena.
“Grottazzolina – added Bonitta – is keen on the Italian Cup, for various reasons, including that of staying on top of the ball and then playing the Super Cup at home”. Bonitta himself then introduced the tactical theme of the semi-final match. A tactical theme that smacks of… short blanket, given that Bovolenta’s replacement needs to be found in zone 2: “In these two quarter-final matches against Prata I tried to get a more concrete idea to assemble a competitive sextet in the absence of our starting opposite, namely Bovolenta. We have also tried various solutions in training extra weapon.” Raptis is the option chosen so far, but the weight of the distribution will then have to be spread evenly among all the other attackers, given that the Greek player didn’t seem very brilliant at the end of the season.
