The green and white manager underlined what will be the key to the match
Gloucester-Benetton, DG Pavanello: “They are the ones ahead who need to demonstrate that they are superior” (ph. Sebastiano Pessina)
On Saturday 4 May at 4pm Benetton Treviso will visit Gloucester for the semi-final of the Challenge Cup. The Lions are intent on reaching their first final in a European competition away to Stephen Varney’s Cherry and White.
Last season the green and whites lost, again in the semi-final, to Toulon 23-0. This year the music is different, there is awareness and maturity compared to the 2022/2023 Challenge Cup. This is also supported by the general director of the Venetians, Antonio Pavanello, who on the pages of The Tribuna of Treviso he identified the key to winning the match.
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Antonio Pavanello: the words of the general director of the Venetians
“As always in this type of match, the forwards decide and have to demonstrate that they are superior to the pack in front of you. That of the English is very good, especially in the throw-in drives which is certainly one of their strong points” said the diggì of the Treviso team.
As Benetton captain Michele Lamaro also declared, interviewed by the club’s official website, convinced that the match will be very physical and will be played above all with the first 8, Antonio Pavanello also supported the same thesis: “So if you can to fight them up front and maintain the territory, in the end you can take home a semi-final even by just one point”.
For Michele Lamaro we will have to be cynical, the Benetton general director underlined that: “Whoever makes the fewest mistakes will win. I underline it, when your forwards perform better than those of your opponents we are practically halfway there.”
Gloucester-Benetton: positive sensations, awareness and maturation
Gloucester-Benetton is the most important match of the Lions’ season. The journey in the Challenge Cup has been wonderful so far and there is still one step left to reach the final. There is great conviction in the Treviso group and this can also be seen from the words of the Venetian manager.
“The air is electrifying. There is the will to arrive ready to enjoy this race to the end.” Compared to Toulon, Antonio Pavanello declared that “Certainly this time we have more experience. Now the group seems decidedly more mature and especially capable of measuring the pressure.”
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