Approach to the match against Rieti

Alex Simoncelli will not be there for the match that Derthona will play on Sunday at 18pm at PalaOltrepo against Rieti. The check-up on the playmaker's knee is scheduled for Tuesday 5 January: this assessment could give the medical team's approval for his return to the group. The good news is that from next week the captain will still return to carrying out individual work with the athletic trainer Natale Marzullo.

It remained today Marco Ammannato is rested due to inflammation, the player will resume training future.

The rest of the group, for today's training held in Tortona, was available to coach Demis Cavina.

Program. The team will never stop training in view of the next home match. Today double session: strength work in the morning and in the gym in Tortona in the afternoon. Also future double training: in the morning at 10am in Tortona and at 16pm at PalaOltrepo. At Christmas the players will be free until 19pm when they will meet in the video room of the Voghera building, immediately afterwards they will carry out training. Saturday 26th afternoon session at 17,30pm.

Coach Cavina comments on the team's moment like this (6ª in the standings) in view of the match against Rieti which occupies the 11thª ranking position (6 won and 7 lost): «The last two defeats have many similarities and in both races, after having had double-digit advantages and leading for a total of 90 percent of the time, we did not capitalize by making a comeback and overtaking in the final moments of the race. There's no point feeling sorry for ourselves about the ongoing emergency situation, we need an extra effort from everyone in tackling the next match with the right determination, seeking greater clarity in the hottest phases of the match. Already on Monday we found ourselves in the right spirit by working through the video to review Sunday's match together and understand how to adapt to the limited rotations to find continuity for the entire forty minutes."