Livorno, 23 June 2021 – The A2 dream ends for Libertas Livorno. The team from Lazio lost 69-60 in race-5 of the final promotion for the A2. It is Piacenza who goes upstairs at the end of a match in which the Leghorns have tried several times to take over the game without succeeding. Piacenza has managed to keep at a distance Marchini and associates for practically the whole game.
Too bad, but as the company says in a post published shortly after the end of the race, “This is just the beginning”. Yes because the defeat cannot stain an exciting season for the team but above all for the Libertas fans, who cherished dreams of glory and were able to compact themselves. Ahead of new seasons that the president Roberto Advice promises full of satisfaction. Certainly the foundations of a solid society have been laid during this year.
The match: the Bakery Piacenza which makes the first two quarters his own, spreading up to 48-29. Difficult for Libertas to be able to recover after the first twenty minutes, even if in the third quarter the team reacts well, closing the fraction with a good run on 10 minutes (6-16). And the 54-45 with which the last ten minutes begin bodes well, but Piacenza holds up and makes the A2 his own. For Libertas 18 points for Casella with two triples, 14 for Ammannato.
“We went beyond expectations. We brought a lot of people to the arena, and this one it’s a great win, as and more than a promotion “, Libertas president Roberto Consiglio told Labrosport. Too bad for those first minutes of blackout that conditioned the match.” It was however a very hard-fought series – says the president – which I am convinced it would have been decided only in the last game even if it had been the best of 20 “.
And there is a very interesting extra point: next year, in fact, Libertas will find again in B la Livorno basketball fresh promotion. A historic derby of Italian basketball is therefore back in a professional league that will give further impetus to the proverbial passion for the ball in wedges.
The match report
Bakery Piacenza – Opus Libertas Livorno 1947 69-60 (21-14, 27-15, 6-16, 15-15)
Bakery Piacenza: Very 21 (4/5, 2/10), Vico 14 (4/6, 1/5), Small bags 14 (7/10, 0/0), Udom 11 (4/4, 1/3), Birindelli 4 (2/3, 0/0), Pedroni 4 (0/1, 1/2), Gambarota 1 (0/0, 0/1), Planetium 0 (0/2, 0/6), Chumbel 0 (0/1, 0/0), War 0 (0/0, 0/0), El Agbani 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Opus Libertas Livorno 1947: Box 18 (4/6, 2/6), Ammannato 14 (3/4, 2/5), Ricci 13 (2/3, 1/6), Toniato 11 (3/4, 1/5), Strong 2 (1/1, 0/0), Marchini 2 (0/1, 0/0), Castelli 0 (0/1, 0/1), Salvadori 0 (0/0, 0/3), Bonaccorsi 0 (0/0, 0/0), Vivone 0 (0/0, 0/0), Mancini 0 (0/0, 0/0), Del Monte 0 (0/0, 0/0)
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