Modena keeps working in the gym during the World Cup break but coach Bagnoli has only a small groups of players to work with: Esko and Anderson are away with their national teams, while Kooy and Carletti are injured. Besides, Diachkov will leave to join the Ukrainian national team on Sunday.

“We really didn’t need those injuries – said coach Bagnoli – We can’t train properly right now, but we obviously try to get the best out of the people present. We obtained five wins in the first seven games, at the level Trento played, we couldn’t win, while we could have done better against Macerata. Shame we can’t train as we’d like in this period but we do have margin for improvement”.