The Tinet Passerotti fly to Aversa determined to close the series

The Tinet Prata boys are training hard. The weekly objective is to close the round of 16 series of the Serie A2 Del Monte Italian Cup against Wow Green House Aversa in two games. Not a simple operation for Dante Boninfante’s boys who, although confident thanks to the triple 3-0 obtained this season against the Campania team, do not trust a team that has great experience within itself and which at home, pushed by the friendly public, could find certainties that he had lost during the trip to Pordenone.
Furthermore, Tomasello’s team has overcome the period of inactivity to which exclusion from the Play Offs had forced it and will be ready to do battle.
In game 1, in addition to Baldazzi’s individual performance, his first of the season as a starter, it was above all the serve (6 aces to zero) and the block (8 point blocks against 4) that dug the furrow in terms of points, in addition to the desire for revenge of the gialloblù, after the bitter elimination in game 3 of the play-off quarter-finals against Ravenna.

SPEAK JJ
“It’s never easy to get back to the gym after being eliminated from the play offs – underlines the Tinet attacker Jernej Terpin – clearly no one would ever want to exit the competition. It wasn’t easy to approach the first leg against Aversa as well as we did. After the exit from the play offs we focused on this new objective, the Italian Cup, and I believe that the motivations remained high. As a result we played an excellent match. Now it would be very important to close it on the return leg, so that we can have a whole week to prepare for the possible next round, in which we already know that the opponent will be Ravenna again.” An Italian Cup formula at the end of the season that is being tested for the first time this year, to guarantee fans the spectacle of high-level volleyball for a couple of months longer “In reality I preferred the previous formula, already tested – Terpin says sincerely – because now everything is played out only in the last month, while before the Italian Cup was a sort of intermediate goal. Now it becomes even more important to be fit in the last month alone. And the teams must also have that extra bit of luck to avoid illnesses or injuries in this last period. Injuries that would jeopardize nine months of work.” Fourth match against Aversa, after 3 round victories. The important thing is to avoid a harmful underestimation of the opponent “I don’t think we will take that risk – concludes JJ – just think that it is a match that is worth access to the quarter-finals of an event that we care about. For this reason we will have to face the away match and the opponent with great aggression and with the determination that we showed in Game 1, aware of the fact that they play very well at home and that, especially at bat, they will do much better than last weekend”.

The appointment is for 6pm on Sunday 21 April at the PalaJacazzi in Aversa when Luca Grassia from Frascati and Alberto Dell’Orso from Pescara will kick off. Those who don’t feel like making the long trip can enjoy the live streaming on Volleyball World. Among the curiosities it is worth remembering that Dario Iannaccone will be the ex of the day while Jernej Terpin is on the home stretch to break down the wall of 2100 points in Serie A, only 5 points away, while Manele Lucconi is -10 from 1800.