Eyes fixed on the pitch, ears tensed in the direction of Bergamo: Edilnol prepares for tomorrow’s match trying to recover concentration and match rhythm, once again cooled by the ten-day break after the two close matches. But look carefully at the Withu medical bulletins that talk about Tony Easley, the expert Central American who made good and bad weather in the area painted in all three previous seasons with the rossoblùs. The player remained on the sideline in the defeat with the Blue Star Roma and the diagnosis of his knee trauma, which came with the return home from the away game, seemed like a sentence: incomplete partial injury of the right quadriceps tendon, the “direct line” between muscle of the thigh and patella. The latest rumors say that the therapies leave open a possibility for his return to the field. It would be a godsend for Calvani’s gialloneri, crushed at the intersection of the capital also for never having managed to get close to the basket, and a problem for Squarcina’s boys who lack a bit of size and aptitude to guard the area painted even if, compared to the first leg and barring surprises, Teddy Hawkins will be in the rotations. In the last sessions at the Forum, Niccolò Moretti also took over, absent in the first two of the black group. Bergamo, on the other hand, must also deal with the muscle injury that Matteo Parravicini had on foot, forced to act as a spectator for weeks now.
If the focus is still on overcoming the second phase, in the blue group that decides the other two candidates for the playout the situation to which the coronavirus has forced the entire championship is making a big voice. Rieti has accumulated three defeats and three injuries since she returned (partially) from quarantine for negative swabs: as had happened in Casale, even in Wednesday’s recovery in Orzinuovi the Lazio players finished the game with only four men on the pitch. And if in Monferrato they had managed to write at least eight names on the scoresheet (such as Biella on his debut against Turin in November), in Lombardy they showed up in six, which became five when Piccoli got hurt after two minutes. With Novipiù, the former rossoblù Stefanelli ended the season prematurely with a broken meniscus. Iacopo Squarcina’s comment on the social network after the match is lapidary and supportive: “If this is basketball …”