Bertram still on the road: in Scafati we need to extend the positive moment. The words of coach De Raffaele
The matches and close away games of Bertram Derthona Tortona continue without stopping in this challenging March. Landed on Thursday afternoon from the victorious Greek expedition of the previous evening in Patras, today the black and white team leaves again for Campania in the direction of Scafati, where at 19 pm tomorrow they will face the home team Givova for the 22nd day of the Serie A Unipol. At the Beta Ricambi Arena PalaMangano Bertram wants to extend the positive streak opened with the arrival of the current month, four victories between the championship and the Champions League that have relaunched the ambitions of accessing the subsequent phases in both competitions. In the championship this means defending eighth place from the new attempt to assault the team with which it is competing for the precious position, Venezia, awaited an hour after the start of the match in Campania by the home challenge against one of the two teams that share with Scafati the difficult situation in the standings, Cremona. Tortona has exactly double the points of Givova, in twelfth place with its 12, two points ahead of only Pistoia and Napoli.
REASONS The current standings sufficiently explain the extra desire of both teams to make the victory their own. In the challenge on the home parquet of just over two months ago at the end of the first half of the season, Tortona obtained a hard-fought and precious victory that was worth the qualification to the Final Eight of the Italian Cup in the last available round, the 99-94 snatched in a comeback from -11 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, with Christian Vital decisive with a couple of triples in the end to break the perfect balance still existing in the score with a minute and a half to go. It was the first time as coach of Scafati of the former Tortona player Marco Ramondino, now fresh with his team from two defeats, at home in overtime against Venice and the clearest one of the last round in Trieste (88-75).
NURSERY The presence of power forward Luca Severini, who returned with fever from Greece, is in doubt. In his role, Derthona can count on Justin Gorham, who is coming off his best scoring performance in European competitions, the 21 points in Patras that retouched his personal best in two seasons of experience in the cups.
WHERE TO SEE IT ON TV The race will be broadcast live on DAZN.
STATEMENTS “From now until the end, all the battles will be very tough: everyone is playing for a goal and Scafati is historically a difficult field”, says the Juventus coach Walter De Raffaele. “Reopening the discussion about qualifying for the Champions League gives us a great deal of confidence in understanding that the new path is the right one and we must continue. We had to find a new balance after losing a player like Strautins, almost an American for how he was playing this year. The team has an identity, it is united and has a great desire to work”.
