A Saturday to forget as soon as possible. Virtus Cagliari and San Salvatore Selargius are licking their wounds after the defeats suffered in the 19th round of the Women's Serie A2 , respectively against Torino and Livorno.

A painful setback for Sardegna Marmi , who had rarely failed at PalaRestivo this season. A poor first and last quarter, however, cost them the defeat in the face of the Piedmontese team, hungry for salvation points. "Once again we were penalized by a negative approach," explains the Cagliari coach Fabrizio Staico , "we found ourselves chasing, and comeback attempts don't always succeed. The team showed little confidence in its own means, but in the coming days we will try to better analyze the reasons for the defeat."
Valtcheva's good performance was not enough: «Diana gave a lot, but in the end there were several lost balls, not only by her, but by a group that seemed tired in some ways both physically, but especially mentally and therefore the match took a different turn, after the great comeback. But in any case the responsibility certainly should not be attributed to the girls. We on the staff will also talk about it, and we will try to understand why we always have to play the matches differently from those prepared, especially in the final».

It was also a lean weekend for Nuova Icom , who after a first half of the game that was positive overall collapsed in the third quarter in Livorno, suffering a severe defeat: «We haven't worked well in these two weeks, and it's my fault», coach Vasilis Maslarinos cut short, «we played very badly and Livorno, on the contrary, did very well». The Selargine will try to get back on track in the next challenge, particularly tough, against Limonta Costa Masnaga, the third force in the championship: «We have another 8 games ahead of us», he emphasizes, «if we want to go to the playoffs we have to do much better than this».