Oleg Antonov in reception during the last home match
Ph. Trabalza
Trento, November 30th, 2015
November 2015, one of the months in absolute richest of official meetings in the history of Trentino Volley, finished on Sunday evening with the seventh victory in nine matches played in the last twenty-nine days from Diatec Trentino. Thanks to the final success 3-0 on Ninfa Latina, the Italian champions have canceled the defeat of Molfetta last Wednesday and brought closer to the top of the Super League’s ranking, which saw Lanza and teammates shortened to three lengths away from the first place without gaining positions in the ranking (fifth place with seventeen points).
The best way to approach the important event of Wednesday, December 2nd, when the Trentino Diatec will receive in PalaTrento the visit of the French Tours for the clash at top of Pool C in the group stage of 2016 DenizBank CEV Volleyball Champions League. The two teams are at the top of the group with maximum points and are in the middle of the fight to ensure the first place, the only one that automatically guarantee qualification to the Playoffs 12.
"Winning 3-0 against Latina, playing in a well determined and committed way, it has been a real blessing for us” - said Oleg Antonov aftermath of success -. “We needed to leave in this way after we literally went haywire in Puglia; the scored points are important for the morale and for the ranking although now we must immediately look to the Champions League match on Wednesday. It will be a very different game from the last one, we will have to show great mental stability because the French teams are particularly noticed in defense and you should be able to play again and again the action to get the point."
The Italian-Russian spiker talks advisedly, having played last season in Tours where he won the national treble (Championship, Cup and Super Cup). "It will be special to face my former teammates;” - he admits - “in France I lived a very busy and important season: after growing in a term of volleyball in Italy, I wanted to compare myself with a championship of that level, and the experience was very formative. The Ligue National is a tournament of an average level slightly lower than the Super League but it is very balanced and uncertain, so much so that Tours at this moment is at the bottom of the standings despite being one of the formations most rank, as its rich palmares explains well. Last season, just to give an example, we were ranked fifth in the regular season before living the beautiful playoffs and win. Compared to the last season the squad has changed a lot: now in the team there are just the opposite Konecny, who has always been the reference point for his long militancy in the black and white ranks, and the middle-blocker Smith, very experienced, as well as a couple of elements of the bench. All other players are new; the coach is always Mauricio Motta Paes, who firmly believes in the work on the block and defense. A feature common to all the French teams."
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