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Pallacanestro Reggiana Unahotels – Virtus Segafredo Bologna pre-match
Priftis: “We will fight for forty minutes, with humility, with our fans”
In a PalaBigi already sold out in a week, UNAHOTELS Reggio Emilia is ready for the first challenge of 2025, hosting Virtus Segafredo Bologna within the walls of via Guasco on the penultimate day of the first round of the Serie A Unipol championship, with the ball at 8:00 pm.
This is how coach Dimitris Priftis presented the game to the media: “It is the second challenge of this triptych of very demanding championship matches. To be competitive against a team with a higher level than ours, we must play as much as we can in all phases of the game: I am talking about physicality, energy, concentration. We have to attack with a lot of discipline, be careful not to give turnovers and at the same time do a good rebound job. We come from a bad defeat and we are angry, we want to redeem ourselves and let him play a strong game, as always with a lot of humility, fighting for forty minutes with push our fans.
The red and white coach also checked the physical condition of the team: “Jamar Smith has started training again with the group and we should be able to give him his first minutes on the pitch after the injury, although he is still far from top form. We have captain Michele Vitali who has had some ailments for several weeks now, we should be able to manage him in a complex period of the calendar like the one that awaits us in the next few weeks.
Coach Priftis’ last joke was about a “challenge within a challenge”: “Meeting Momo Diouf and Momo Faye, two products of our youth sector as well as two good friends outside the pitch, which competing against each other at these levels, we are very happy and it is definitely an interesting element of this challenge.”
Mazzoni, Quarta and Pepponi are the three referees appointed to oversee the match, which will be broadcast on DAZN.
The gates of PalaBigi will be opened at 6:30 in the evening, because the venue is fully booked, the public is advised to arrive early at the palace.
David Draghi
Communications Manager
Pallacanestro Reggiana Srl