“The Pesaro public doesn’t need appeals, we already know that this time too many will come. We are the ones who must deserve their support.” Thus Meo Sacchetti on the eve of the last home match of the season against Vanoli Cremona: a match which, if won, will keep Vuelle in the running until the last day where the fate of salvation will be decided. “Since I arrived here, all the matches have had a certain importance, but it is clear that with each passing week, each match counts more. What is needed to face this type of challenge is the mentality: we will have to have a decisive approach, fielding what led us to obtain two victories in a row, we’ll go and see what happened on the other fields, but during the match I don’t want to know anything, let’s think about ourselves and do our job. Besides, what evaluations can we make knowing that there is also the possibility that even if we win both we could still be relegated?
He didn’t use the stick after Tortona Sacchetti’s knockout nor the carrot, but he partially absolved the troops “because physically they dominated us in every role and offensive rebounds are also taken for that. We didn’t shoot with good percentages against Bertram and our physicality is what it is, even at full strength, it’s not like we notice it on the penultimate day…”. Against Vanoli, however, something more in this respect will have to be brought out: “Of course, a little more aggressiveness is also necessary because if we want to run we can’t do it only from the basket immediately. But the characteristics of many of our athletes are like this , they go from moments of exaltation to darker ones, it’s difficult to change the minds of the players, they have to be accepted like that for better or for worse. And it’s not just diving into the ground to win.” Between fatalism and realism, Meo is confident of being able to bring the ship to port on Sunday evening, regardless of the condition of others: “Is Cremona already safe and therefore more serene? Honestly, I’m not interested in the motivations of the other team, I expect mine to be ha” cuts the coach short on the simple thought of a Vanoli arriving on the Adriatic wearing flip-flops. And the three exes – Lacey, Zanotti and Eboua – who knows how they will face a Pesaro on the brink of the abyss. Meo is also an ex, with Vanoli he won an unexpected Italian Cup: “I take away the good things of the places where I have been and in Cremona I lived very beautiful years interrupted by Covid, a situation which created the misunderstandings which made me leave I went, but I have fond memories of the president and the trainer.” Pesaro still without Totè, who also carried out differentiated work this week: he could return on May 5th in Venice.
Elisabetta Ferri
