Guide to Itas Trentino-Allianz Milan tomorrow at 8.30pm

Wednesday at the «Il T daily Arena» the final for 3rd place begins (without lavia)

Photo Carco Trabalza.

The Final for 3rd place Play Off Scudetto Credem Banca 2024 opens on Wednesday 17 April at the «Il T daily Arena» in Trento.
Itas Trentino is preparing to face Allianz Milano in the best-of-five series which will award the winner qualification to the 2025 CEV Champions League. Race 1 starts at 8.30 pm: live on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on the OTT platform VBTV.

Here Itas Trentino
Three days before game 5 of the Semi-final, the yellow-blue team returns to the pitch in front of their fans to try to confirm themselves for the sixth consecutive year among the participants in the highest continental trophy.

«We must be good at immediately turning the page to immerse ourselves in the new confrontation that we are about to undertake and live these last three weeks of activity with a single objective: to go beyond everything, in search of hidden resources, – underlined during the presentation the coach Fabio Soli. – The boys have spent a lot throughout the season and even more in this last period in which bad luck took Sbertoli away from us, who will not actually be available to play for another ten days.
«The importance of the races that await us and our desire to compete for the next goals will be the stimulus that will guide us in our daily work and in every race we face.
«We will challenge a Milan team that has demonstrated all its value in these Play Offs, both in the quarter-finals by eliminating Piacenza, and in the semi-final with Perugia, which reached game 4.
«The bitterness of the epilogue of the series just concluded with Monza is natural, but the awareness that, one ball at a time, we will have the possibility of adding something precious to the positive things done so far will once again be the fire in the soul of this team.”

In addition to the Italian director (who will in any case go on the scoresheet), Itas Trentino will also have to do without spiker Daniele Lavia: the tests carried out today highlighted a low-grade lesion of the rectus abdominis which will prevent him from taking part in the match .

New final and opponent in the championship play-offs
The twenty-first participation in the Play Offs in the history of Trentino Volley is underway; after having come close to reaching the tenth Scudetto Final in its history, the Via Trener Club will take part for the first time in the match that assigns 3rd place (introduced only in the 2022/23 season by the Lega Volleyball Series A), against a opponent like Milan who has never found his way before in this phase of the Italian championship.
It will be the 1,040th men’s match for the Via Trener Club, the 479th home match (378 wins, 100 defeats).

The opponents
Allianz Milano is preparing to play the second Final for 3rd place in its history in as many editions that the Serie A Volleyball League has organised.
Since this formula was introduced to assign the last vacant pass for the CEV Champions League, the Milanese club has always taken part in it.
In the previous season they faced this play-off without finding much luck, defeated by Piacenza against whom they didn’t even win a set in the three matches played. On this occasion he returns with renewed ambitions and with greater energy than the opponent he will challenge, taking into account that he has had six days to prepare for the appointment.
The team coached by Roberto Piazza lost in the semi-final to Perugia, selling dearly in all four matches of the series (in which they always won at least one set) and legitimizing their second consecutive presence in European cups.
The most awaited player is certainly Matey Kaziyski who will set foot for the first time at the IlT Daily Arena since the banner with his number 1 shirt (retired by Trentino Volley in January) was installed on the roof.
Together with the opposite player Reggers and the spiker Ishikawa he forms a very effective high ball trio that director Porro knows how to exploit fully.

Previous
The total count of the official matches between Trentino Volley and Powervolley Milano focuses on twenty-four matches, with twenty-one victories for the yellow-blues, who were defeated for the last time on 26 November 2022 within friendly walls (1-3), before obtaining four consecutive victories : at the tie break on 19 February 2023 in Milan and six days later in Rome in the semi-final of the Italian Cup and then 3-1 in the match of the first round of this regular season, played in Lombardy on 15 November and closed with partial 22-25, 25-21, 19-25, 16-25 and 3-0 in the return match played in Trento on 24 January and ended with scores of (25-21, 25-19, 25-21). In their history, the Milanese have only won once in Trento in eight previous matches: on 15 October 2017 (2-3).

The series
The Final for 3rd place is played as the best of five matches; after game 1 on Wednesday evening, the teams will return to the field in Milan for game 2 on Saturday 20 April at 8.30 pm; Game 3 will be played again in Trento on Wednesday 24 April at 8.30 pm.
The possible match 4 will be at the Allianz Cloud on Saturday 27 April at 8.30 pm, while game 5 will be played, if necessary, in Trentino on Tuesday 30 April at 8.30 pm. Whoever achieves three successes qualifies for the 2025 CEV Champions League.

The referees
Massimiliano Giardini, first referee of Verona, and Andrea Puecher, second whistle of Rubano (Padua) have been designated.
For Giardini, in the role since 2014, sixteenth match of the season against SuperLega teams; only one of this refers to Trentino Volley: victory against Milan 3-1 at the Allianz Cloud on November 15th.
Also for Puecher, in the top category since 2003 and internationally since 2014, season management number 16 in the SuperLega, four of which with Trento as protagonist, including the 3-0 home win against Milan on 24 January.

Radio, internet and TV
Game 1 will be reported live by Radio Dolomiti, media partner of Trentino Volley. The frequencies to listen to the regional network can be consulted on the website www.radiodolomiti.com, where it will also be possible to follow the live radio commentary in streaming.
The (paid) service on the OTT platform has also been confirmed VBTV. For further information on its use, consult https://it.volleyballworld.com/volleyball-tv-it.
On television a summary will be broadcast on Friday 19 April 2024 at 4.30 pm, on RTTR – media partner of Trentino Volley.
On the internet, point-to-point updates will be managed by the Serie A Volleyball League website (www.legavolley.it) and by www.trentinovolley.it and will always be active on the gialloblù Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook, www.trentinovolley .it/instagram and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

Ticket office
The meeting is included only in the «Full» seasonal subscription type; those who do not have this type of card will be able to purchase a ticket for the match at any time on the internet by clicking https://trentinovolley.vivaticket.it/it/event/finale-play-off-30-posto-gara-1 -itas-trentino-vs-milano/233817.
The coupons still available will be put on sale on Wednesday evening at the cash desks of «Il T daily Arena», active starting from 7.30 pm (same time as the entrances to the stadium will also be opened).

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