After the great emotions of the Palasport Allende, we return to the championship. It’s time for the final rush for Monge-Gerbaudo Savigliano, who host Personal Time San Donà di Piave at PalaSanGiorgio for the third to last day of the Girone Bianco of Serie A3 Credem Banca (and penultimate at home).
The opponent. It is the Venetians who test the ambitions of Simeon’s boys, relaunched by the success against Garlasco at the end of February, before the efforts of the A3 Italian Cup final four in Fano. San Donà is now the second force in the championship and will show up in Cavallermaggiore with the desire to take a success which would, in fact, deliver the mathematical certainty of second place, as well as keeping alive the faint hopes of a record. Before the break, the yellow and blues beat Mirandola 3-0, making up for the defeat in the derby against Motta di Livenza four days earlier. Giannotti’s usual 16 points were decisive, with the negative note represented, however, by Gioele Favaro leaving the field injured. Coach Moretti’s boys are among the best teams in the entire A3 Credem Banca Serie and, consequently, exclusion from the final four.
Monge-Gerbaudo Savigliano here. The blue and whites, however, had a week to reorganize their ideas and recover from a physical point of view after the Italian Cup match against OmiFer Palmi, victorious 3-0. Now there is a qualification for the playoffs to be completed for the second year in a row, as coach Lorenzo Simeon explains: “The main objective now will be to reabsorb the negative waste left by the knockout against Palmi to find that adrenaline necessary to live the final rush of the season to the fullest. Doing well in the Cup was one objective, but now there is the second. We will face a team that still wants to cradle the dream of first place and that will also want to do well to make up for the defeat suffered in the Cup against us, but we want to “push” in these last three matches, trying to finish in the best possible position in the playoff zone. If we want to get to the post-season well, which at the moment is not yet mathematically certain, we must start racing in the championship again.”
Previous. Despite the current ranking favoring San Donà, which has gained an 11 point lead (but one game more) over Savigliano, the balance between the two teams clearly speaks the Piedmontese dialect.
