For Emma Villas Aubay Siena, the week of preparation for Saturday night’s match at the PalaPanini against Modena is underway. “We are going through a positive moment. Compared to a few weeks ago, when the situation seemed desperate – comments the white and blue central Daniele Mazzone – the team has shown that it is competitive and not doomed.
We have worked hard to reach an average level that allows us to always stay in the game. Even if there were times when the game didn’t work perfectly, like in the first and second set against Padova, we manage to fight until the end. Even in those first two sets we reached twenty-one points while in the past they probably would have finished at fourteen.
Now we’re able to recognize what’s wrong between those two three that don’t work while before we were a bit confused trying to figure out what was wrong and, as happened against Padova, in the meantime we try to regroup and get back on track.
Coming to the gym after a win is always nice, but after three consecutive wins it’s even more rewarding. Furthermore, Zibi Bartman – the latest addition to President Bisogno’s team – is proving to be an added value both from a technical and character point of view, right from the match against Padova I perceived his desire to return to the field after ten months of stop. Despite claiming he’s not in top form, Bartman has shown that he has the urge to eat the ball.
Now we have to face Modena. – Mazzone, with Petric, Van Garderen, Bartman and Pinelli is among the ex yellow and blues now in Siena – In the first leg, the team still needed to find a balance in its starting sextet and was objectively not playing to its full potential. Today it is a different team. With game exploits such as those of Ngapeth and Lagumdzija, he is able to express a high level on the pitch.
As for us, even in our best version of ourselves, we know it will be difficult to keep up with them, but we are aware that we are a team that is just as different from the one they met. A team that knows how to play and you can’t give too much otherwise they’ll take advantage of it.
