Virtus flies to Athens, Luca Banchi calls for concentration and responsibility

Luca Banchi’s words ahead of Olympiacos-Virtus Bologna

After their home success against Valencia, Virtus Bologna, in the 28th round of the Euroleague, is expected to play a complicated away game against Olympiacos, the European vice-champions and currently sixth in the standings behind the Bologna team. On the eve of the match, bianconeri head coach Luca Banchi presented the competition that awaits his boys.

"We are on the eve of a cycle of very important and very difficult competitions that we will have to face with concentration and responsibility, in the knowledge that we are to date fighting for very important goals, which is why we will have to express on the court all the energy, enthusiasm and confidence of having earned this stage with effort and dedication" began the head coach of the Felsini.

"Olympiacos, vice-champions of Europe, is going through an excellent moment of form, producing a choral basketball and a defensive consistency worthy of a team aspiring to the title. We will play in a very hot environment, but the value of the opponents and the environmental conditions will have to be the impetus for an aggressive and determined" added Luca Banchi.

In addition to the coach, in the press conference, è also intervened the blue guard Alessandro Pajola: "A very difficult game awaits us in a really complicated court, against a very strong team built to win the title and that in recent seasons has proven to do well. A tough match to which però we come prepared. After the defeat in Sassari we had a chance to reason about our mistakes, we are ready to take the field and play a good game".