Please wait. We still have to wait to award the 40th Italian futsal championship. As Prezioso Casa Napoli did in Aversa, winning with great merit, so Meta Catania recalibrates the Finals for the tricolor. Juanra’s team dominates game 2 at times, wins 2-1 in the super din of a PalaCatania sold out and forces the finals to race 3. An unexceptionable success.
QUICK AND RESPONSE
Juanra didn’t even recover for game 2 Dian Luka, struggling with that annoying thigh problem that practically sidelined him for the entire championship playoffs. Very heavy absences at Prezioso Napoli: Colini is without Salas and Mancuso, two fundamental players on the Azzurri board. The Catania team started like a slingshot and with a furious pace they immediately put Preziozo Casa Napoli on the ropes: Podda unlocked the result by centralizing from the band and unloading a ball into the net with a powerful and precise left-footed shot. Napoli only has one merit, that of knowing how to suffer, they hold on and equalize in the first attack with an assist from Borruto converted into a goal by Bolo. MVP Bellobuono will take care of everything else: sumptuous again on Podda, providential in the split on Pulvirenti (from two steps away) and decisive also on Silvestri. At the break it was 1-1, a result that was very close to the Etna team.
MELO MUSUMECI DECIDES
We start again exactly like in the first half. The Meta scores immediately: free kick from Bocao, Melo Musumeci puts his foot in, Bellobuono surprised, PalaCatania explodes again. Napoli without Salas loses a lot, a lot, in the restarts both in the geometries and in the setting phase, so Colini, after a great action by Anderson whose conclusion hits the crossbar, breaks the delay and 6 minutes from the end brings in (De Luca) goalkeeper movement. With 2′ left to go, Meta’s 3-1 was rightly canceled because on Joao Timm’s relaunch with his hands, no one – not even Pulvirenti – touched it. Minimally. PalaCatania’s cry, however, was only postponed: the Rossazzurri defended the Neapolitan 5vs4 very well, won 2-1 and extended the Finals to game 3. It will be a “beautiful” final at the PalaJacazzi in Aversa on June 21st (8.30 pm, always live on Sky Sport), there the tricolor will be waved, this is the only certainty.
NEW ENERGY SERIES – PLAYOFF
QUARTER FINALS
1) OLIMPUS ROME-ITALSERVICE PESARO 2-4 (game-1 6-1, game-2 3-5 aet)
2) META CATANIA-ECOCITY GENZANO 5-0 (7-1, 1-4)
3) PREZIOSO CASA NAPLES FUTSAL-FELDI EBOLI (4-4 aet, 3-0)
4) L84-SANDRO ABATE 3-2 (6-4, 2-4)
SEMI-FINALS
X) META CATANIA-ITALSERVICE PESARO (4-3, 5-4)
Y) L84-PRECIOUS CASA NAPLES FUTSAL 4-5 dts (7-2, 1-7)
FINAL – RACE-2 (race-3 21/06)
META CATANIA-PREZIOSO CASA NAPOLI FUTSAL 2-1 (match-1 3-5)
