For the first (and only) time in the 2024/2025 season, the Saturday evening lights come on at the PalaFrancescucci for Campi Reali Cantù, and the opponent is one of the top ones. In fact, the kick-off of the derby against the leaders Gruppo Consoli Sferc Brescia is scheduled for Saturday 21 December 2024 at 8.00 pm, a match valid for the thirteenth and final first leg of the Regular Season of the Serie A2 Credem Banca. The Canturini’s opponents for the “Christmas match” have won the last 3 matches, gaining 8 of the 9 points available, and have displaced Pordenone’s Tinet Prata from the top of the Serie A2 Credem Banca table.
Coach Alessandro Mattiroli presents the challenge like this: “The derby against Brescia will be a ‘mission (almost) impossible’ for us: they are the leaders, and there is a reason. It is a team that is really strong this year: if it is not the best, it is certainly among the top three in Serie A2 in terms of potential, and they are proving it. In addition to being first in the rankings, they are also in an ultra-positive phase. We will have to try to face the difficulties that we know there will be as best we can, but we are putting everything we can into the week to play a hard-fought match in front of our fans.”
THE OPPONENTS
Coach Roberto Zambonardi has been on the Brescia bench since 2006, and has experienced all the promotions on the front line, from Serie B2 to Serie A2. In the control room is the eternal Simone Tiberti, in his tenth consecutive season at Gruppo Consoli Sferc. The opposite is the Cuban Yordan Bisset Astengo, in his first experience in Italy.
