Africa-Press – Angola. With the mind focused on the challenge with the hosts (Zamalek from Egypt), Petro de Luanda rehearses, today, in the afternoon, the strategy to triumph, tomorrow, in a challenge of the third round of the Nile Conference of the African Basketball League (BAL).
José Neto wants to take advantage of the momentum of the first two victories and motivate the players for the most awaited game between the two teams (Petro and Zamalek), considered the strongest of the tie. As predicted by coach José Neto, the team has been gaining confidence and rapport. In the first game, they beat South Africa’s Cape Town Tigers by 90-61, and again showed the power of strength against South Sudan’s Cobra Sport, by 92-56.
Assembling an increasingly homogeneous team, with the equal distribution of points, is the objective.
In addition to knowing that they will face the main candidate to finish the tie in the first position, Petro will also have to deal with the pressure of the home crowd. It was this same Zamalek who took the tricolors away from the last final. A defeat certainly won’t compromise the goals of either one or the other, but the Angolan champion will have to “play for prestige”, shrewdness to redeem himself from the past defeat and, thus, be the “champion” of the tie.
The Angolan international Yanik Moreira is one of the hopes of the tricolors for the indoor game, in addition to Waldelício Joaquim. Defense is another aspect that José Neto promises to work on, in order to present a strategy that makes it as difficult as possible for the internal game of the Egyptian team, which has reference players in position five.
The six teams in the competition seek, playing in the all-against-all-one-round system, to be among the first four places, in the all-against-all one-round system, with the right to a “vacancy” in the final stage, to take place at the Kigali Pavilion , in the capital of Rwanda, from the 21st to the 28th of May.
The Sahara Conference that took place last month in Senegal, selected Association Sportive Salé (Morocco), Energy Group (Rwanda), US Monastir (Tunisia) and Seydou Legacy Athlétique Club (Guinea).
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