The top seeds did not disappoint expectations in the last few quarter-finals of the Italian Cup 2026 in men’s volleyball, thus deserving the qualification for the Final Four which will be staged in Bologna on the weekend of 7-8 February. The wait was all for the big match between Perugia and Civitanova: the Block Devils won 3-1 (25-17; 22-25; 25-22; 25-16), managing to get back into gear after losing the second set and overcoming Lube, who was in excellent form after having achieved some positive results in the championship.
To drag the World Champions, always brilliantly directed by Simone Giannellithey were mostly the opposite Wassim Ben Tara (18 points) and spikers By Plotnytskyi (15) e Kamil Semeniuk (14), the central defenders were also brilliant Agustin Loser (9, 3 next) e Sebastian Solé (8, 2 walls). They weren’t enough for the cooks Aleksandar Nikolov (16 points), Mattia Bottolo (14) ed Eric Loeppky (12).
In the semi-final, Perugia will face Veronaafter that Scaligeri beat Milan 3-0 (25-19; 25-18; 29-27). The current third force of the Super League only had to struggle in the third set, gaining the advantage under the blows of the champion Noumory Keita (17 points, 3 aces) and the wild opposite Darlan Souza (16 points, 6 aces), also noteworthy are the performances of Lorenzo Cortesia (7) and Marco Vitelli (6) against the sextet led by Veikka Lindqvist (12), Francesco Recine (11) and Ferre Reggers (7).
Piacenza instead dictated the law in the derby against Modena 3-1 (25-18; 25-22; 21-25; 25-14) and thus earned the semi-final against Trento. Impactful performance by Efe Mandiraci (21 points), Alessandro Bovolenta (15), Jose Miguel Gutierrez (14) e Francesco Comparoni (13 points, 7 blocks!). Among the Canaries the best were Paul Buchegger (13), Arthur Bento (10) and Giovanni Sanguinetti (11).
