Trentino Volley three block against a Sunder's spike during game 1

Ph. Trabalza

Trento, April 27th, 2015

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 28th, in Perugia starts game 2 in the semifinal playoffs for Super League UnipolSai 2015. ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino will face the trip to Umbria with the possibility, in case of victory, to gain access to the Finale, being ahead 1-0 in the series that is articulated to the best of three races. Kick-off scheduled at 8:30pm: Broadcasted Live on Radio Dolomites and www.sportube.tv (free streaming).
The success 3-1 last Saturday night in Game 1 has delivered yellow-blues the first of two match balls to center for the seventh time in eight seasons to qualify for the final of the playoffs. In Perugia, Stoytchev team will try to end it, even though the stats are favorable to PalaEvangelisti where they won all the challenges played against them.
"Game 2 will be a very difficult game because we will play at home to a team like Perugia that in recent years has always offered excellent performance, driven by a large audience and fan base” - said the coach Radostin Stoytchev -. “To try to win we have to offer even better performance than the one on Saturday, we were also lucky: we served more lucidity and played at the highest level.”
"The Trentino will begin training in Umbria in the evening today, after a morning workout at PalaTrento. The Bulgarian technician can count on all fourteen of his players and decide which player is at the last place on the scoresheet, where it only thirteen athletes are expected.
Game 2 in the semifinal for the playoffs in UnipolSai 2015 Super League game of the season will be the 40th for Trentino Volley: Historically there is 37 wins and 5 losses. The match in PalaEvangelisti will be 79th in the history, yellow-blues playoffs championship (50 wins, 28 defeats), the 24th ever in the semifinals. In previous seven investments to the board at this stage the Trentino Volley has won the match five times second in a series: the first chance goes back to the 2007/08 season (one of the first championships) thanks to 3-0 imposed in Rome that opened gates of the first final, but then there were also the 3-2 obtained in Cuneo in the following year, the 3-2 achieved in Macerata in 2010, 3-0 in Latin America in 2012 and 3-2 in Cuneo in 2013. In the other two circumstances was a  KO (in 2006 in Trento against Sisley and in 2011 in Modena).
PREVIOUSLY  Tomorrow will be the ninth match between the two teams, which have begun to compete officially in the 2012/13 season ; half of the previous already on file relate solely to this match, which saw the teams battle four times (with the results favoring the yellow-blues, twice for 3-1 and twice 3-2). The stats supports the Trentino Volley that so far have lost only once, March 16th, 2014 for the PalaTrento 1-3, winning the other seven games. In the three previous played matches at PalaEvangelisti the yellow-blues were always successful: 3-0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-20) November 7th, 2012, a 3-2 (23-25, 25-20, 15-25, 25-21, 15-6) December 22nd, 2013 and still in the tiebreak (21-25, 22-25, 25-19, 25-18, 17-15) October 26th in the only previous season in Umbria (Kaziyski Atanasijevic 25 and 28 the best scorer). Sir Safety Company is a native of Bastia Umbria, then they moved to Perugia when they landed in Serie A2, and therefore not attributable to the partnership weblog RPA-LugiBacchi.it who played in the Umbrian capital between 2002 and 2010 and that Trento challenged 21 times, winning in 12 occasions.
SERIES Diatec Trentino ahead 1-0 in the semifinal series that is played to the best of three games, by virtue of 3-1 to PalaTrento matured on April 25th with a partial 29-31, 25-18, 25-23, 25-18 in Game 1. Game 2 Tuesday in Umbria, which could be the last  event of another victory for Trentino. Game 3 will be played only if they were to dominate Perugia and actually be held in Trentino Friday, May 1st starting at 6pm or 6:30pm (live TV will be available). Who will find the turn in Finale (series will be the best of five games that kicks off Sunday, May 3rd) the winner of the match between Modena-Latina must score ahead 1-0 from Emilia (Tuesday 28th second challenge).
REFEREES Game 2 will be arbitrated by the tandem of Sinus (first referee Venarotta, role since 1997 and internationally since 2001) and Luca Sobrero (Carcare - Savona, in Serie A since 1996 and internationally since 2001). The two whistles are on their first joint leadership in Super League UnipolSai 2014/15, the sixteenth is Pasquali - which curiously this season has crossed yellow-blues on two seasonal in Umbria (Perugia-Trent 2-3 of 26th October and City of Castle-Trent 0-3 of December 14th) -, the fifteenth to Sobrero (who previously directed Verona-Trento 3-0 on November 1st, Trento-Piacenza 3-0 of December 28th, Trento-Perugia 3-2 January 10th in Bologna and Trento-Molfetta 3-0 April 15th).
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET RadioDolomiti, radio partner of Trentino Volley, will recount the match live, and in its entirety, starting from 20.25. The connections with PalaEvangelisti will be made within the show “Campioni di Sport”: the radio frequencies to follow the regional network can be found on the home page www.trentinovolley.it, whereas the live radio commentary in streaming can be followed on www.radiodolomiti.com.
The pre-recorded broadcast of the match will be transmitted on Wednesday, April 29th at 21. on the regional television channel RTTR, Tv partner of via Trener’s club, and again at midnight on the same date. Finally, on internet, the minute by minute update will be care of the Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it), by www.trentinovolley.it itself, and it will always be active on the yellow-blue Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
THE FAN BUS 40 fans will follow the team in person, in Perugia thanks to the official sponsor, ‘Italian Travel Company,’  that was organized by Trentino Volley. The departure times for buses on Tuesday: from Mezzolombardo in Piazza Fiera at 1:00 pm from the square in Trento area ex Zuffo at 1:20 Pm, from the exit Rovereto Nord at about 1:40am.

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