A match with little or nothing at stake at the Pala Tacca in Cassano Magnago, with Carpi already condemned to the Serie A Silver and the hosts out of the playoff race. However, the race pace is already quite high at the start. And in the first ten minutes the guests had the upper hand, moving up to +2 thanks above all to the plays from 8 meters by Marques Costa and Damjanovic. Then the Amaranth defense gets thicker, Riva raises a wall in front of him and everything gets complicated. Around the quarter of an hour, when Moretti serves Savini who arrives in tow, the score is 10 all. At 17′ Cassano with Saitta then reaches the momentary +3, forcing coach Serafini to time out. The reprimand does not have the desired effects, the Lombards fly to +5, maintaining it in complete safety until 23 to 18 of the half hour.
Change between the Juventus goal posts in the second half, Sibilio exits and Jan Jurina enters. The arrival of the Croatian goalkeeper has a notable impact on the match. His saves, in addition to demonstrating “pure crystalline class” according to the commentators, allow the Emilians to quickly recover ground. In the 44th minute Carpi reached parity thanks to Alex Monzani’s goal and a minute later they even took the lead, 28 to 29 by Marques Costa. The two minutes assigned to Monzani himself around the 45th minute, however, which increased the temporary expulsions inflicted on Carpi to four, compared to Cassano who was stationary at zero, inevitably changed the inertia of the match. The Varese team predictably took advantage of this to put the bar back on the right side, taking the lead with Fantinato to 32-32 in the 51st minute. With the Emilians rushing some plays in attack the gap becomes wider. Five from the siren Moretti serves Savini sending the scoreboard to 35 to 32. The +3 remains unchanged until the siren. The last goal of the match is that of Saitta for 37 to 34.
