Tomorrow evening at 8.30 pm at the ilT Quotidiano Arena Allianz Milan and Itas Trentino are once again ufacing each other to compete for third place and a pass to next year’s Champions League. Situation of perfect parity 1-1 after as many tie-breaks. In the last match Trento found its setter, Riccardo Sbertoli, but still has to do without Daniele Lavia, just as Milan has its KK available only for the back lap.
For numbers enthusiasts, in the last match at the Allianz Cloud, Alessandro Michieletto and Kamil Rychlicki both scored 23 points between the Trentino players, the same as Ferre Reggers had scored in the first leg (top of the series at the moment). On serve Paolo Porro with his 4 aces was a ruling, while on the block Michieletto and Kozamernik scored 4 blocks each. Among the team’s best are the 48.8% attack and the blocking (14) of theItas Trentino, the Winning Jokes: 9 of Allianz Milan. He had been the MVP of the match Damiano Catania. In any case we will return to the Allianz Cloud on Saturday 27 April for Game 4 and the first matchpoint. Start at 8.30 pm presale already active. Possible Game 5 on Tuesday 30 April at 8.30pm at the ilT Quotidiano Arena in Trento, always at 8.30pm. All matches are broadcast live per subscriber on VBTV.
Coach Roberto Piazza presents the match, talks about the last match played at the Allianz Cloud and on Sunday evening at “After Hours, the SuperLega at night” the Sunday evening web program signed by Lega Pallavolo Serie A, hosted by Andrea Zorzi and Andrea Brogioni is intervened 360° on the themes of the final and more.
“Whether or not Milan in game 2 will be enough to win Trento too, I don’t know, because there is also a great opponent like Trento on the field. I am certainly aware that we can still grow.”
What did you like about the last match?
“I may be trivial, but I certainly liked the final result which was certainly not obvious. The match could have ended for us in the fourth set, but we made too many inaccuracies, Trento then had two lucky balls, but truly lucky ones and thus took us to the tie-break. The risk of it getting out of hand was high, we started out a little tense and we quickly got going. Then, you know how volleyball is. A serve from Sbertoli ended up off by a millimetre, the video check proved us right. We believed in it a lot from there, even though we turned the pitch 8-5 for them, we were aware that we still had something to give, we still have to improve on the inaccuracies and that ups and downs that can be dangerous.”
Here’s what Piazza said to After Hours between Milan and the summer with the Dutch national team.
THE STRENGTH OF THE GROUP – “We had a great ride together. It’s one of the things that happened to us recently too. The hen is Matteo Piano, who partly shaped some players. And the group follows.”
THE PLAN CONDITIONS – “Matteo is recovering, he is getting better and better. We must consider that he is no longer very young”.
THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE 3RD PLACE FINAL – “I would be lying if I said it was easy to get back on the field in the Finals for 3rd place. In Italy we don’t see third place as a very important placement. There aren’t many who are lucky enough to play in the Champions League. Abroad they are more used to it, in Russia and Poland there has always been a final for third place. In Italy it is still latent. The return to the match was complicated: in Game 1 against Trento, it wasn’t the Milan that I know.”
THE INTENSITY OF TODAY’S VOLLEYBALL – “Yesterday one of my players from the Dutch national team called me and said: ‘I saw Game 2 against Perugia and, although I don’t like seeing volleyball on TV, I must say that not only did it captivate me, but it gave me the feeling that every ball could be the ‘ball of the match’. And it happened with the next one too.’ At any moment you have the player who can solve the situation for you, a hitter who makes an important break, a team that implements an extraordinary block-defense system. Either you’re really mentally tough or it’s very difficult.”
MONZA, BEYOND THE SURPRISE – “Without wanting to take credit away from anyone, with Sbertoli on the pitch from the start it would have been different. Having said that, I absolutely didn’t expect Monza to be able to play with this intensity, then he found an extraordinary chemistry, the chemistry between the players is something unique. I think it’s a group of players who have attracted themselves, they’re attacked. There is Cachopa who is showing wonderful things and the attackers are resolving very complicated situations, both with the four and three reception. Then he has technical players, like Loeppky, Takahashi, Maar who is powerful but with extraordinary abilities, Cachopa, but Galassi themselves, Di Martino and Gaggini are doing very well.”
TOWARDS THE OLYMPICS – “We will have to have an extraordinary VNL against the Netherlands if we want to achieve the Paris 2024 objective. That’s the ranking. I experienced a sliding door with the Netherlands in the first qualifying match in China, when we lost 3-2 against Canada, then they immediately went on to win against Argentina while we melted like snow in the sun. But Belgium also had an amazing tournament, paying for the tie-break lost against Bulgaria. Getting to the Olympics for Serbia, Cuba and the Netherlands won’t be so simple. Today I believe that Italy, Argentina and Slovenia are a step forward and even more.”
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