Play Off 3rd Place Credem Banca
Game 3 Final: Milan wins in Trento in 3 sets and takes a 2-1 lead in the series. Fourth act Saturday at 8.30pm
Race 3 Final 3rd Place Credem Banca
Itas Trentino – Allianz Milano 0-3 (22-25, 23-25, 14-25) – Itas Trentino: Sbertoli 1, Michieletto 9, Kozamernik 8, Rychlicki 10, Magalini 10, Podrascanin 1, Nelli1, D’Heer 1, Cavuto 2, Pace 0, Laurenzano (L), Berger (L), Acquarone 0. NE Garcia . All. Suns. Allianz Milan: Porro 5, Ishikawa 18, Loser 10, Reggers 11, Mergarejo Hernandez 14, Vitelli 3, Colombo (L), Kaziyski 0, Zonta 0, Catania (L), Dirlic 1. NE Starace, Innocenzi, Piano. Enclosure Square. REFEREES: Vagni, Brancati. NOTES – set duration: 28′, 27′, 24′; total: 79′.
It is Allianz Milano that has secured the new advantage in the Credem Banca 2024 3rd Place Play Off Final series, in the best of five matches. This evening the Milanese secured Game 3 by blowing up the field factor for the first time with a surgical 3-0 which is worth 2-1 and guarantees two match balls. To obtain a place in the CEV Champions League for the first time next season, Piazza’s team will need another victory between Game 4 or Game 5. Today’s victory came perhaps unexpectedly in the score but deservedly; right from the start the visiting team demonstrated that they had more determination and fuel than their opponents, winning the first two hard-fought sets with personality and then spreading themselves in the third, when Trento almost immediately stopped believing in the possible comeback and the third tie break of the series. Ishikawa (MVP and best scorer) and Meragerejo led their teammates towards success by landing 15 of the 26 break points scored by Allianz. Itas Trentino lived on the success of Rychlicki and Michieletto, without ever giving the impression of being able to reverse the trend. Saturday Race 4 in Milan.
MVP: Yuki Ishikawa (Allianz Milan)
SPECTATORS: 2,629
Marko Podrascanin (Itas Trentino): “Honestly I find that this evening we were not present on the court, as in the first two sets when we lost the advantages we had gained and consequently in the third set we completely shut down. The lack of energy and determination came to the surface. I want to congratulate Milan because today they played a good match, free of errors and full of good defenses and coverages, where we sometimes fail to pay attention also because we often want to close the attacks with strength and not with clarity and clarity. right head. The thing that I consider most necessary at this moment is to forget this challenge together with the Monza ones in the Semifinal as it is all in the past and we need to focus only on the present and the future because we still have time to erase the mistakes and earn qualification. I really hope this wasn’t our last home game of the season.”
Yuki Ishikawa (Allianz Milan): “Today we were really very good. In the first two sets the teams were very close, but we managed to win both. Then the third we won very clearly. In the end we built a good game plan and took it to the end. We return to the Allianz Cloud on Saturday where we will have to play another beautiful match. I think the joke went very, very well. But also the blocking and the defense, we were very strong.”
Finals 3rd Place Credem Banca
Race 4
Saturday 27 April 2024, 8.30 pm
Allianz Milan – Itas Trentino
Live VBTV
Race 5 (possible)
Tuesday 30 April 2024, 8.30 pm
Itas Trentino – Allianz Milan
Live VBTV
3rd Place Final – The formula
The two losing teams in the Scudetto Semifinals play the 3rd Place Final with the formula of 3 games won out of 5. The winner is qualified for the 2024/2025 Champions League. The loser is qualified for the 2024/2025 CEV Cup.
