The people of Sassari had been stationary for over a month. Coach Bucchi has all his men, the Eagle finds Johnson
SASSARI. Back on the field, after a month’s break between the Italian Cup, the National Cup and Covid hindrances. Dinamo goes to the discovery of itself for the umpteenth time on Sunday at 7 pm in Trento, and it is already a key game in the playoff perspective. Ninth place for the Sassari at 16 points, seventh for the Trentino at 18 but the biancoblù have two fewer games. However, it is not only for this reason that the L’Aquila coach, Molin, speaks of a “lying classification for the Sassari”, alerting him and counting from the first minute on Dominique Johnson, a returning winger. Dinamo has great desire. Coach Bucchi, who yesterday celebrated his 64th birthday, has the team complete after the return of Treier and Kruslin and a good run-in for Bendzius, the last to be negativized by Covid.
“We know it’s a complicated game, Trento is a very physical team, which has experience and talent, we are aware of the week of work we have done – explained bucchi -. But we are doing well enough and we have tried to regain that intensity and condition that we lacked by practically playing a game in a month ».
Trento relies heavily on fans and has put half-price tickets for women on sale near March 8. Dinamo want to reopen a positive streak, like the one that brought them to the Final Eight in extremis. The precedents show 12 bianconeri and 10 rossoblù successes, the last two in a row. In the challenges played in Trento the balance hangs on the side of the hosts, with 8 wins and three defeats, the last in 2019 with the decisive bomb by Curtis Jerrels at the end. In the direct confrontation between the two coaches, Bucchi leads 4-1 over Molin and today there are also two former players on the field, both now wearing Dinamo shirts. Both Stefano Gentile and Luca Gandini in the past had played with Trento, when it was in Serie A Dilettanti.