Saturday the last day of the regular season decisive for the play out grid. Pf contends for 10th place to the Tuscans, Fontana hopes to get the injured back
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Pf Broni 93 closes the regular season on Saturday evening (two ball at 20.30), hosting the Limonta Costa Masnaga at PalaBrera (closed doors). The Oltrepadane will try to get the two points and at the same time will follow the Campobasso-Lucca match. In fact, if the Tuscans come out defeated from the trip to Molise, and the green-and-whites overtake the Lecco players, then Pf will be sure of tenth place and an opponent on the most malleable card in the play outs; otherwise, any other combination of results would favor Gesam Gas who has a better goal difference than coach Alessandro Fontana’s girls: +50 in the first leg for Lucca; +16 on the way back to Broni. Lucca would be 10th and would play against 13th (in this moment Battipaglia); Broni 11th and would play against 12th (Sassari). Toscane and Bronesi will have the advantage of the home factor in the first round, at the end of which the two winners will be safe, while the two losers will go to the second round, in which the loser will be relegated to Serie A2. In short, the advantage of the tenth place lies in the fact that the rival on paper is a bit weaker and the possibility of playing the “beautiful” at home also in the second round.
Broni, meanwhile, continues to deal with the full infirmary, because on Saturday evening the employment of Anna Togliani and Francesca Parmesani is not yet certain.
Fontana’s analysis
“I hope to recover some players to have more energy and a few more rotations available – explains coach Fontana – surely we will face a Costa Masnaga that has nothing more to ask for, so they will have a clear mind and the enthusiasm of having conquered the access to the play offs. We will have to manage resources in the best possible way, because in Sesto we played at our best until the petrol ran out ». Obviously, he also looks at the play out and the coach fears both possible opponents: “At this moment I have no particular preference on whether to get to tenth or eleventh place because Battipaglia, in the case of 10th place, and Sassari, in the event of 11 °, for various reasons, are both very formidable, as we have seen. – says the coach – The bells and the sardines certainly have an important package of foreigners, so they are both uncomfortable. Then it is clear that arriving at the playout with a victory, a convincing performance against Costa, can certainly help us, give the girls a greater boost ». For the moment, however, the maximum uncertainty remains on the matches postponed for Covid. If the play outs were recovered, they could slip, if instead the ranking is “frozen” without recoveries, using the quotient of games played / games won, then the play-offs will start regularly on Saturday 17 April. –
FRANCO SCABROSETTI