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Trento, April 24th, 2016
It will be played tomorrow, Monday, April 25th, at PalaTrento Game 4 of the semifinal playoffs Championship UnipolSai 2016. Diatec Trentino will face DHL Modena looking for the victory that will even the score and at the same time will cancel the opponent's second chance to close the series that articulates to the best of five games. The kick-off is scheduled at 7.15 pm: broadcasted live on TV Rai Sport 1 and on Radio Dolomiti.
HERE DIATEC TRENTINO The success at PalaPanini of Thursday night has raised the prices of the Champions of Italy, called anyways to repeat the 3-1 PalaPanini in the second and last home match of the series for not having to shell out off in advance the league’s leads title on their jerseys.
“The predictions are in favour of Modena which remains in advance”- has clarified the coach Radostin Stoytchev presenting the appointment -”;we are pleased to have extended the series but we are still under for 1-2 and our task will be more difficult because behind us we have a number of games that grows day by day and with which we must inevitably come to terms from the physical point of view. The good news is that we are still in the race thanks to the victory in Game 3; but that success is already behind us and the challenge of tomorrow will be different from the previous ones. To hope to win we will have to fight for every ball and keep up our level of concentration; there are no other way to get Game 5”.
The coach of Diatec Trentino will use the last two workouts before Game 4 (one in the early afternoon today, the other one tomorrow morning) to decide what type of deployment to adopt; Nelli is recovering while Djuric played only part of the last sessions with the team and then train in individual work. In case of necessity, therefore, Matey Kaziyski is ready to be used, as happened on Thursday, in the role of the opposite.
Tomorrow’s match will be the 48th game of the season for Trentino Volley, the 659^ official in its history, the 93^ Championship in the playoffs (58 victories and 34 defeats), where from 2011 onwards the team lost only twice at home over 23 matches played: the only two knockouts against Modena (0-3 in Game 1 of the quarterfinals in 2014 and 2-3 in Game 2 of the semifinals in 2016).
A VICTORY AND TWO DEFEATS IN THE PREVIOUS GAME 4 OF SEMIFINAL Trentino Volley in the past has already played three times (out of fourteen total participations) Game 4 semifinal playoffs Championship, clinching one victory and two defeats. The only success is relative to the imposed 3-2 at home to Lube in the 2010 series, while the two knockout refer to 2-3 at PalaTrento in the 2006 series with Treviso and the PalaPanini to 1-3 in the series 2011 right against Modena. The Company of via Trener then already played a Game 4 of the playoffs in PalaTrento with Modena as an opponent being under 1-2 in a series to the best of five games: the previous one is tied to the debut in playoffs Championship (season 2002/03) and is particularly challenging because the former Itas Trentino Grundig prevailed 3-2 on April 16th, 2003, winning the chance to play the last game - then won by Emilian at the tie-break.
PREVIOUSLY At PalaTrento will be played the eighth season challenge between Diatec Trentino and DHL Modena, the sixty-two ever. The agonistic prediction sees the Emiliani ahead for 4-3, but the general one smiles instead to Trentino Volley for 36-25. At Palatrento the guests got instead the victory in the most recent previous year (3-2 in Game 2 of April 12th), breaking a negative tradition that had lasted since March 27th, 2014 (Game 1 of the quarterfinal playoffs): it was the victory of two weeks ago won the only victory of Modena in PalaTrento during the eight years with Stoytchev as coach of Trento. In the playoffs Championship derby A22 went already on the scene twenty-three times: thirteen Trentino’s victories and ten Modena.
SERIES DHL Modena ahead 2-1 in the semifinal series that is played to the best of five games, by virtue of 3-1 accrued at PalaPanini in Game 1 on April 9th with partial 23-25, 26-24, 25-19, 25-16, 3-2 got in PalaTrento in game 2 on April 12th with a partial 21-25, 25 -17, 21-25, 25-22, 15-12 and 1-3 in favor of Trento in Modena with scores of 21-25, 23-25, 25-22, 23-25. On Monday Game 4, which may be the last of the comparison only in the event of Lorenzetti team’s victory; if Diatec Trentino win even tomorrow's meeting, Game 5 will also be required to be played again in Emilia on Thursday, April 28th at 8.30 pm. Who will find the turn in the Final (even this series will be the best of five games, will start on May 1st) the winner of the match Civitanova vs. Perugia that sees ahead 2-1 the Umbrian (tonight's Game 4 at PalaEvangelisti).
THE REFEREES The race will be directed by Stefano Cesare (from Rome, in role since 1999 and internationally since 2010) and Roberto Boris (from Pavia, in role since 2007 and internationally since 2010). The couple is the first game in Super League season joint UnipolSai 2015/16, the sixteenth for Cesare and the fifteenth for Boris. The whistle from Rome has crossed Trento during the match against Modena lost at the tie-break in the final of the Italian Super Cup on October 24th, 2015, the two victories at tie-break against Lube (December 13th, 2015 in the league, February 6th, 2016 in the semifinals of the Italian Cup) and knock-out with Verona on February 27th. Boris has instead refereed Diatec Trentino during the 3-0 home wins out of Latina of November 29th, 2015 on February 14th in Molfetta.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET Modena -Trento will be a global media event, broadcasted live on any type of media. On television will be broadcast by RAI Sport 1, visible on the digital terrestrial platform and on Sky on channel 227, with comment entrusted to Alessandro Antinelli and Andrea Lucchetta. The game will be streamed also in Internet on www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisport/multimedia/diretta.html and will count on an intercontinental visibility (fifty nations affiliated) thanks to the broadcasts programmed by Bein Sport Arabia, Bein Sport Usa, Bein Sport France, Sportsklub, Sportsklub Poland, Bandsport, Sky Mexico, Channel 11, OTE, Romtelecom, Cyta, Ct Cinetrade Ag, Sport 5, Cmore, Perform and Img.
RadioDolomiti, radio partner of Trentino Volley, will recount the match live, and in its entirety, starting from 19.10. The connections with PalaTrento 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 Monday April 11th at 21.30 pm on the regional television channel RTTR, Tv partner of via Trener’s club.
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 also on the yellow-blue Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
THE ENTRANCES OF PALATRENTO WILL OPEN AT 6.00 PM With the "sold out" PalaTrento since this morning, the palace cashiers tomorrow will open at 5.00 pm only for the withdrawal of accreditation. Around 6.00 pm, as soon as the police will give their consent, will instead open the entrances of the building.
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