After the first two matches of the championship final between Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano and Savino Del Bene Scandicci and the 1-1 draw achieved thanks to the tie-break victories, both obtained away from home, by Scandicci in Treviso and by the panthers in Florence, tonight at 8.30pm the two teams return to the field at the Palaverde in game 3 to take a significant step forward in the title race which appears to be more balanced and uncertain than ever. Both the Tuscan and Venetian teams have so far demonstrated that they are equivalent, both in the extraordinary quality of the game and in the wasted opportunities in some decisive moments of the two matches. In fact, if in game 1 it was the blue and white who prevailed at the end of the fifth set when, after wasting a match point in the fourth, they found themselves having to chase, at Palazzo Wanny, however, it was Conegliano who was able to overturn his favor, in extremis, the result after having risked losing.
Given these premises, tonight’s match, in a packed stadium, will be high tension; The one who gives everything from the first ball to the last and makes the fewest mistakes will win. Barbolini, who has already won five championships in his career (like Santarelli), explains: “We start again from a draw, in the result and in the game, and this is comforting because we are facing a team that has dominated throughout the season. Game-3 will be able be different from the first two, which were very balanced. The playoffs are like this but we are aware that we are playing good volleyball and we are doing our best, then it is obvious that we can always do something more, and probably this time we will. it will be necessary to do so.” The match will be visible live on Rai Sport, Sky Sport Uno and on vbtv. Savino Del Bene and the Municipality of Scandicci also organized the screening of the race on a giant screen set up in the auditorium of the Rogers Center (piazzale della Resistenza in Scandicci). Entrance, free of charge, will be possible from 8pm; the capacity of the room allows access to a maximum of four hundred people.
Franco Morabito
