Euroleague, Dusko Ivanovic explains the cause of Virtus Bologna’s loss to Olympiakos

At the Peace and Friendship Stadium Virtus Bologna è was beaten 87-77 by’Olympiakos Piraeus in the match of the 16th day of the Euroleague and remains in the last place with 3 wins and 13 losses together with’Alba Berlin.

The Black V’s start was disastrous: 25-7 after 6’39” in the first quarter, which ended 29-17 for the hosts. In the second quarter, Dusko Ivanovic’s team made such a great comeback that it even went ahead 46-43 at the long interval.

In the third quarter for’Virtus suffers a 19-4 partial, è under 64-56 with ten minutes to go and this time it fails to close the gap, in fact, sinks to’87-71 before placing a useless 6-0 final with two threes by Marco Belinelli, who closes with 20 points, Virtus’ best scorer. For Olympiakos 27 points and 10 rebounds by Sasha Vezenkov.

“Congratulations to’Olympiacos, they played well. We had problems at the’beginning of the game because they defended strongly right away and we didn’t do as well especially against Vezenkov and in the first five minutes of the third quarter we had big problems taking good shots because of their very good defense. We almost never found good options on offense and looking at the statistics the item rebounds è definitely one of the reasons why we lost”.

Monaco-PSG, terrible kick in the face to Gianluigi Donnarumma

During the first half of the Ligue 1 big match between Monaco and PSG at the Stade Louis II valid for the sixteenth day of the French top league Gigio Donnarumma è was the victim of a foul of unprecedented violence.

The goalkeeper of the Parisians and the Italian national team è was hit with a cleat to the face by Singo and had to leave the field bleeding and disfigured, leaving the place to the second goalkeeper Safonov at 22’.

A direct red foul, but Singo, who a few minutes earlier had been cautioned for another foul, incredibly did not even receive a second yellow card from referee Letexier.

Cesena, Michele Mignani explains the drubbing against Atalanta’Atalanta

Michele Mignani, Cesena coach, comments this way on the defeat at home to Atalanta in the 8th round of the Italian Cup: “The boys gave everything, I am sorry for the too much reverential fear in the first part of the first half. Soì we took two goals right away”.

” We had to be more aggressive and not concede goals soì easy. Instead, when he had the ball, the team s’è proposed, played, è arrived in the area to try to hurt the opponent – the analysis of the coach of the Romagnoli -. It was a match almost impossible to reverse, but the regret è of having been too light, without detracting from the qualityà of Atalanta”.

“The positive things? The personality, the way of moving the ball and creating nuisances for the opponents. Ceesay did well as did Pieraccini, but it è not a matter of individuals. We have to become a little bit more dirty and nasty,” Mignani closed, “In the heads of my players there could not help but be a little bit of worry, but this must not become fear. At the beginning we were almost afraid to touch them and hurt them”.