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Starting on the right foot, to immediately demonstrate your strength. The Apu Old Wild West opens its championship in Piacenza against Assigeco, and is faced for the first time with the unprecedented role of favorite for promotion. Living with pressure will be one of the main themes of the 2021/22 season, you have to get used to it from the first duo ball.
Once the disappointment due to the defeat in the Supercoppa semifinal is over, Udine needs to get back on track. Technical continuity with last season is the extra weapon of the bianconeri in this first phase of the championship, in which many opponents must necessarily find new equilibrium after so many changes. Cappelletti’s graft immediately proved to be spot on, coach Boniciolli can afford to wait unhurriedly for Lacey, because last season’s “hard core” offers ample guarantees, and Walters is already giving signs of his potential.
Today in Piacenza there will still be Lautier to extend the rotations in the external sector. APU shows up at PalaBanca with ten men, there will be room for everyone against an opponent filled with young people: Salieri has 4 out of 11 players born in 2001 in the squad. The technical gap is clear, the game must be closed as soon as possible, but in the case of an uncertain final, Udine can count on a more equipped bench and on the experience factor, with people like Giuri, Antonutti and Cappelletti who have already shown that they know how to face the decisive minutes of matches with clarity.
On the eve of the match in Piacenza, “Ciccio” Pellegrino, one of the “senators” of the Udine locker room, spoke. «Our opponent has a very complete roster, also thanks to the recent addition of Pascolo. The goal will be to attack the game from the very first minutes and impose our pace and I am convinced that this goal will be shared by all my teammates. We have now completed the preparation, so it will be essential for us to know that we can find a team that physically will have much fewer ups and downs than the first few outings and I am sure that this will also apply to us ».
The Assigeco has profoundly renewed its roster compared to last season, and on paper it has emerged weakened, also because there is no longer Markis McDuffie. The confirmed are four: the expert play Sabatini and the various Gaijc, Cesana and Guariglia. On the US front, the situation is not very fluid: the Piacentini start the tournament with only one American, the carneade Gabe DeVoe, since the big forward Phil Carr has already been given the welcome, given that the player has not convinced the technicians and the club. Also for this reason, during the week, the arrival of the Udinese “Dada” Pascolo was greeted with the enthusiasm usually reserved for the stars and stripes players.
Assigeco Piacenza-Apu Old Wild West will be broadcast live at 6pm on the Lega website for LnpPass subscribers. Updates every quarter on the official Apu Udine social networks. –