Virtus Bologna, Luca Banchi explains recipe for pulling off feat with Panahinaikos

The words of Luca Banchi

Virtus Bologna, after an away loss against European champions Real Madrid, is expected to face another prohibitive match against Panathinaikos Greeks. Ahead of the challenge against the Hellenic team, the head coach of the Felsinei Luca Banchi has tried to identify the recipe to challenge the roster coached by Ergin Ataman.

"The competition against an opponent of the caliber of Panathinaikos imposes an additional effort to bring our performance to the level of a team already capable of expressing its full potential. It will beà our task to dictate the pace of the game, starting with a solid and careful defense, which will give impetus to a high-level game" began the head coach of the Felsini.

"A decisive aspect will also be how much we will be able to express in terms of quality" and continuity, putting in the support of our public that will play a decisive role in pushing our team to achieve the feat" added Luca Banchi.

To the club official channels, in view of the next Euroleague challenge, è also spoke Achille Polonara: "Panathinaikos canò count on one of the longest rosters in the’EuroLeague and on very talented players. We will have to try to limit their offense, they are a team that scores a lot and so we will have to do a great job on defense and play like we did with Maccabi, aggressive, move the ball well in offense, pushed by our crowd.”