{"id":73781,"date":"2025-09-29T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/news\/euroleague-round-1-coach-ivanovic-and-alessandro-pajola-pre-game-quote\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:29:28","slug":"euroleague-round-1-coach-ivanovic-and-alessandro-pajola-pre-game-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/euroleague-round-1-coach-ivanovic-and-alessandro-pajola-pre-game-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague, Round 1 | Coach Ivanovic and Alessandro Pajola pre game quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna, September 28 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtus Bologna vs Real Madrid,\u00a0Tuesday September 30 8.45pm &#8211; Paladozza (Bologna).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REFEREES: Mehdi Difallah, Gytis Vilius, Steve Bittner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicola Akele unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coach Dusko Ivanovic&#8217;s words on the eve of the game: \u2018We start the Euroleague against one of the best teams in the competition, with a truly complete roster. They play hard and use transition a lot as an offensive solution. We need to improve on a few things from our last game against Milan, playing better defence and being more present on the rebound.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Pajola before the game: \u2018We start our EuroLeague campaign at home in front of our fans, and that should help us against a top-level team, one of the best in the EuroLeague. It will be a game that we need to approach with concentration from the start, especially starting with defence, which must be our trademark for all 40 minutes.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip off 8.45pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":73776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,268,256,248],"tags":[308,269,265],"class_list":["post-73781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague-en","category-primo-piano-en","category-a-league","category-news","tag-euroleague-en","tag-app-en","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}