Serie A1 women, Moncalieri visits Reyer Venezia
After two consecutive postponements on each side due to covid infections, theAkronos Libertas Moncalieri and Umana Reyer Venice are back today, Sunday 2 January, on the Taliercio parquet for the last day of the first round of the championship of Women’s Basketball Serie A 2021-2022.
The team of coach Terzolo skipped the challenges with the Passalacqua Ragusa and the Italian Broni Construction, while the reigning champions of coach Mazzon had to postpone the Superclassico against Familiar with Schio and the Christmas trip of Lucca. Despite the two games to be recovered, the Venetians are third in the standings with a statistic of 16 points, at -2 from Bologna (which skips today’s match with the orange) and -6 from Schio who still has full points.
Moncalieri instead arrives in Venice with 6 points in the standings and his eyes turned to the important match of Wednesday 5 January in Faenza.
After almost a month off, the Gialloblù defense will have to pay great attention to the tandem Anderson-Gueye, capable of scoring over 35 points per match. Always in double figures on the Venetian side, the duo made up of Petronyte (12.7) and Thornton (10.2).
Moncalieri will instead rely on the usual one Paixao who with 13.5 points and 2.8 assists led the Piedmontese attack from the beginning of the season, assisted by Miletic (9.8 points and 8.4 rebounds) and by the newcomer Maya Ruzickova who in two matches with the yellow and blue colors on the scoresheet 8.5 points and almost 7 rebounds.
Two ball at 18:00 at Taliercio, the direction of the match entrusted to the trio Bonotto Fabio, Almerigogna Moreno, De Biase Stefano.