Trento, 19 April 2024
Game 2 of the Final for 3rd place Play Off Scudetto Credem Banca 2024 will be played on Saturday 20 April at the Allianz Cloud (formerly PalaLido) in Milan. Itas Trentino will visit Allianz Milano, finding themselves ahead 1-0 in the series which is divided into the best of five matches and which awards qualification to the 2025 CEV Champions League to the winner. Kick-off scheduled for 8.30pm: live on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on the OTT platform VBTV.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO After the precious comeback victory in game 1, the outgoing Italian Champion team moves back to Lombardy to try to concede an encore, in order to take a double lead and look to the second part of the series with a greater chance of final success.
“The success achieved on Wednesday evening was very important, because it was preparatory to turning the page after the elimination from the race for the Scudetto in game 5 of the semi-final – explained the coach Fabio Soli when submitting the appointment – . We managed to go further, we did it through suffering, not always playing good volleyball but putting everything we had on the pitch and this makes me proud of my team and also confident towards game 2, which will certainly be another battle sport, of which we want to be protagonists”.
The Trentino team will complete their preparation for the appointment with this afternoon’s training at the IlT Daily Arena and with Saturday morning’s training on the playing field, where they will still be without Lavia (low-grade injury to the rectus abdominis suffered the following day of the conclusion of the Play Off Semifinal with Monza). It will be match number 1,041 in the men’s history of Trentino Volley, the 45th of the season (34 victories and 10 defeats), the 562nd ever away from home where only 215 cases have resulted in defeat.
THE OPPONENTS Allianz Milano is ready to host Itas Trentino for the second time this season with the aim of winning the match in order to be able to play a further match (in that case the last) in front of its own fans. The defeat at the tie break on Wednesday evening at the IL Daily Arena will in fact force the team coached by Roberto Piazza to have to win at least one between game 2 and game 3 to continue to fuel their hopes of qualifying for the CEV Champions League, a tournament in which they have never first took part in ten years of activity. Matey Kaziyski, the great ex, is the only one in doubt for this appointment, having suffered a calf muscle injury in the last training session before his debut in the series. Should he not be in the match, Mergarejo Hernandez would still play diagonally to Ishikawa in his place.
PREVIOUS The total count of the official matches between Trentino Volley and Powervolley Milano speaks of twenty-five matches, with twenty-two victories for the yellow-blues, who were defeated for the last time on 26 November 2022 within friendly walls (1-3), before obtaining five victories row: 3-2 on 19 February 2023 in Milan and 26 February 2023 in Rome, in the semi-final of the Italian Cup, 3-1 on 15 November again in Milan, 3-0 on 24 January in Trento and 3- 2 on April 17th again in Trentino. In their history, the Milanese have won only once in front of their own fans against Trento (3-0 on 3 February 2021), winning just four sets in the remaining nine matches. Saturday’s match will be played for the seventh time at the PalaLido in Milan (now Allianz Cloud); the other home matches had previously been played at the PalaYamamay in Busto Arsizio (3 March 2019, 5 February 2017 and 30 December 2017), at the Forum in Assago (8 February 2015) and at the PalaBorsani in Castellanza (5 December 2015).
THE SERIES Itas Trentino ahead 1-0 in the Final series for 3rd place Play Off Scudetto Credem Banca 2024 which will be played as the best of five matches, by virtue of the 3-2 achieved on 17 April at the IlT Daily Arena with scores of 23-25 , 25-18, 23-25, 25-19 and 15-11. Game 2 on Saturday, which could be the only one to be played in Lombardy only in the event of two more victories for the yellow-blues between this match and the following one (game 3) on Wednesday 24 April in Trento (8.30 pm). If Allianz wins at least one of the next two matches, game 4 will also be necessary, which will be played again in Milan on Saturday 27 April at 8.30 pm. Whoever achieves three successes qualifies for the 2025 CEV Champions League.
THE REFEREES The match will be refereed by Giuseppe Curto, first referee of Gorizia, and Stefano Cesare, second referee of Rome. For Curto, in Serie A since 2013, seventeenth match of the season in the top men’s championship; last meeting with Trentino Volley on 11 April in Monza (defeat in four sets). For Cesare, in the top flight since 1999 and international since 2010, the most recent match with respect to the yellow and blue colors protagonists among the sixteen live matches in the season refers to the previous weekend (home defeat against Monza at the tie break in game 5 of the semi-final).
RADIO, INTERNET AND TV Match 2 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 Monday 22 April 2024 at 9.30 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).
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