Milan, Messina: “Inside or out, we’ll have to play an almost perfect match”

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The day after the defeat in Race 3, for theAX Armani Exchange Milano it is already time to think about the next challenge. On Thursday 28 April, at 19:30 Italian time, Olimpia will take the field again at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul for a match that can be decisive. A defeat would eliminate the red and white from the competition, taking the reigning champions to the Final Four. Winning, on the other hand, would mean returning to Milan for the decisive Race 5.

“It is a game from the inside out, we are aware of it, so we will face it as we have always done throughout this series, also knowing that Efes has great individual talent and a lot of experience.“said the head coach Ettore Messina presenting the match. “To win we will have to play an almost perfect match. In Race 3 we played hard and went ahead with five minutes to go. In Race 4 we will try to recreate the same situation, hoping to finish better”.

He was also talking Sergio Rodriguez, on the field in Game 3 for 27 minutes despite his bad ankle. “We played a good Game 3, with a few moments of pause, and in the end their talent emerged. Game 4 is the most important match of our season, we will have to be ready from the start, playing immediately with a lot of energy and attention. We have been working for months to get to this moment and even with so many injuries and absences, we will be ready to give our all better, ”explained the Spanish player.

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