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.

For Gian Piero Gasperini, Atalanta takes example from Sofia Goggia

“To reach the level of Sofia Goggia we have some pasta to eat…”. Gian Piero Gasperini, after the 6-1 win over Cesena in the round of 16 of the Coppa Italia, comments on the words of the skier who says she finds herself characteristically in Atalanta: “Sofia è talent and determination even in overcoming injuries, we draw a lot on her tenacity and stubbornnessà”, explains the Nerazzurri coach.

With the Romagnoli, despite having only 5 starters out of 11 in the starting lineup, the commitment was not taken under consideration: “A good match, interpreted seriously from the start. There is always the risk of facing such matches with a reduced gear – Gasperini’s analysis -. Having gone ahead immediately favored us, gave us the chance to play in many and at a good pace”.

In Bergamo, people are already thinking about the championship: “Ruggeri has a bad injury to his right foot, but today s’è trained and tomorrow he could already be joined the team. Empoli è a good team that plays well despite the last home defeat: we come with enthusiasm and momentum”.

Finally, on the’understanding between Samardzic and De Ketelaere, both scoring twice, in an unseen trident: “You have fun if you can make good plays and there’è the availability” of your teammates. Matches like this serve to cement understanding and exchanges. That’s how you create scoring chances”, Gasperini closes.