A reminder of the character and pride of the group at a delicate moment of the season. It is that of Paolo Battaglia, the 26-year-old opposite who came from Sicily in the summer to wear the jersey of an ErmGroup Altotevere team which fell back to penultimate place in the table in the White group of the Serie A3 Credem Banca championship after the 0-3 in Belluno. With him, we analyze last Sunday’s match and the difficulties that the blue and white team (but not only them, so far) reveals when playing away from friendly walls. “The certainty supported by the numbers – declares Battaglia – is that we play worse away than when we are on stage at home. I don’t know if this depends on the facilities and the absence of reference points (see for example the lights of the other sports halls), but it is absolutely not an alibi. The fact is that we find ourselves in an emergency situation and that in Belluno we tried “tested” formations very few times during the week for obvious reasons: Marzolla lined up in place 4 with Cipriani, but together they never received. Then Carpita and someone else are missing to provide balance and security on the pitch.” You too initially struggled to get into the game, then you loosened up; difficulties in adapting to the match against Mantua, in which you were a protagonist right from the start? “Partly the emotion, partly the new arena in which I played, held me back in the opening minutes: on the other hand, entering the house is different, because you do it on the Taraflex in which you train every day and which it has become familiar to you.
