It is easy, inside that sports hall that smells of Foppapedretti trophies in women’s volleyball, to focus the spotlight on those who have attended it for a long time: Tonight’s Withu-Edilnol is also the return to Bergamo of Jeffrey Carroll who last year in a yellow and black tank top, with three quarters of the season at 17.9 points per game, he had earned the attention of Serie A and Treviso. Since returning to A2, making Biella’s fortunes, his offensive turnover has grown to 22.8: only Floyd di Capo d’Orlando does better taking both groups into consideration. Yet never as today, in the fourth stage of the sprint-salvation rossoblù, will the group count. Iacopo Squarcina knows it well, repeating it like a Tibetan prayer: “I always say the same thing, but as a team we must be able to find something more within us, both in defense and in attack”. How much weight the PalaAgnelli challenge is explained by the ranking: Edilnol penultimate with four points and three games more than the Lombard rear end, who will finish their season (barring unforeseen events) only on 11 April with the last of the recoveries scheduled in this lame tournament. «It’s yet another“ win or die ”game, to win or die – says Squarcina -. It will be important for us to put together the enthusiasm of the last days and not give up. We did it well on Sunday, when in a poor first quarter, in which we missed at least five open shots, we clung to the game. Against Bergamo it will also be tough from a physical point of view, because we will have to add an effort of forty minutes to the expenditure of energy of this last period ».
Also for this reason, a supplement of gritted teeth will be asked to all the injured, starting with captain Laganà, the other ex in the game. Berdini will return, after the technical knockout that Carberry inflicted on him on Sunday in a game clash. And massages and ice on the knees will keep everyone’s fatigue at bay until the last hours before the ball at two o’clock at 20.30 (live via web subscription on Lnp Pass).