Olimpia, Ettore Messina makes a bitter admission after defeat with Trento

These are the words of a despondent Ettore Messina after his Olimpia Milano’s sharp 79-63 defeat in the Coppa Italia final in Turin against Dolomiti Energia Trentino.

“Congratulations to coach Paolo Galbiati and to Trento. They played a beautiful game, a beautiful Final Eight and it è not coincidental because theyé are also first in the standings. Ours è was a Final Eight of a worrying poverty, witnessed by the figures”.

“We were outclassed in every aspect of the game, there’è was very little ball movement, when we got a lead then we never went with a pass to the opposite side, settling for individual initiatives with little meaning and in fact for the second night in a row we packed a very low number of assists. Defensively, we got caught when they attacked our point guards in pick and roll” situations.

“We never held the’one-on-one. We were on our sixth game in 13 days. It can’t be an excuse but after so many games of this intensity; I had the feeling that we were just empty as attention, physicality;, intensity;. Instead, they had enthusiasm, energy and attacked us in our weak points”.

Parma in ten after half an hour, Roma expels Tardini

At the Tardini in the match of the twenty-fifth day of the Serie Roma beat a Parma 1-0 in ten from just after the half-hour of the first half for the expulsion of Leoni. Second consecutive win for the guests, fourth defeat in a row for the hosts.

Pecchia also in this match, due to injuries, redesigns the formation and tries to change a path that so far has led to dead-end streets. Ranieri for his part wants to continue the series of positive results and continue climbing the standings.

Those who have the tough task are certainly the hosts since history sees them defeated 34 times in the 55 confrontations played. For the first ten minutes nothing happens until Bonny misses an inviting ball from Cancellieri in the box. All proceeds quietly or nearly so until the 29th’ when Leoni commits a last man foul on Celik: punishment and expulsion.

The following free kick è taken in a masterful way by Soulé: ball that goes over the barrier and into the’cross. The rest, until the double whistle, è boredom. In the second half Roma threatened to double but Suzuki, with two extraordinary interventions first on Soulé and then on Salah-Eddine keeping Parma in the game. And Suzuki repeated three minutes later on Pellegrini’s low shot.

The match keeps the same plot: giallorossi keeping the ball and trying to double and ducali trying, as and when they can, to strike on the throw-in. It ends with Roma taking home the three points and a Parma, desperate, that despite being in ten against eleven for more than an hour, tries futilely to equalize.

An historic and unprecedented triumph

Coppa Italia in Trento for the first time in history, thanks to the triumph in the final over Olimpia Milano, beaten with a final score of 79-63. A result that inevitably triggers the great joy of the coach of the triumphants of the historic game in Turin: Paolo Galbiati.

“I am overjoyed – Galbiati’s warm words to the microphones of ‘DAZN’ -. Toto deserved to win its first trophy, the president and the company deserved it. È a recognition that all those who work for Trent and me deserve, including my assistants and medical staff. Now we can go home really happy”.

For Galbiati, this is the second Italian Cup in his career. The coach from Vimercate, born in 1984, already conquered the trophy with Auxilium Torino in 2018: even then it was a first for his club.

The Italian Cup obtained against Olimpia Milano represents for Trento the first trophy of the “greats” of Italian basketball. In the club’s trophy cabinet there are already a Legadue Italian Cup (won in 2013) and the LNP Italian Cup in Serie C1 won in 2005.