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Curtain prisoner of Covid. Skip the race with the Kitzbuhel

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Cortina Hafro player Luca Zanatta

Too many infections in the Austrian team, while the situation at Hafro is improving. Luca Zanatta: “We hope to at least play on the Linz pitch on Saturday”

Also this evening the spotlights of the Olimpico will remain off. A further postponement for Cortina was in the air and the league made it official yesterday morning.

The match scheduled today with Kitzbuhel is not played, because the Austrian team is struggling with some infections that have led to a forced stop of the eagles’ activity.

Covid, which also Hafro had to deal with last week, although now the situation in the Ampezzo locker room has improved considerably.

ALPS A SINGHIOZZO

However, the Alps tries to move forward despite everything. It is played on very few fields in this period. but the companies and the board of the transalpine league want to complete this championship at all costs and have long ago decided to change the way the regular season will end, choosing the criterion of average points to establish the ranking.

“These continuous postponements and this situation we are experiencing has certainly put everyone at a disadvantage”, comments Luca Zanatta, one of the most experienced players on the roster of coach Machacka. «We are paying the consequences of choices that were inevitable and that changed the perspective of teams that were chasing and of formations that were looking for an escape. First of all, I hope to be able to play on Saturday and then I hope that a win will be enough to get into the top six. It is right to decide our destiny by playing to the end, not staying in this limbo and hoping for coefficients and things that do not depend on us ».

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THE RACE TO THE TOP SIX

The regular season, in fact, will end on Saturday with the match between Linz and Cortina. An opponent to beat for, at least theoretically, to be able to reach the top six at the last minute and then play the Master Round with serenity while waiting for the playoffs.

In the middle, at the beginning of February, the Scudetto finals.

«Now we are entering the hot phase of the season», Zanatta analyzes, «every year we look forward to this period where matches count more. We can’t wait to face it, we are hungry for victory. If we want to achieve good results, however, we must think day after day, without looking too far ahead. By training well and working hard ».

As mentioned in the meantime, the Covid situation among the squirrels, which led to the postponement of the championship semifinals and the races with Bregenzerwald and Jesenice, is improving.

“We’re all recovering a little at a time. It was a very difficult time to manage in the best possible way. Some of us have finished the quarantine but cannot train because we are waiting for the compulsory post-Covid sports fitness ».

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