Samuele Papi and Lukasz Zygadlo on the net during the last match

Ph. Trabalza

Trento, April 3rd, 2015

ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino will play the evening of Saturday, April 4th, the last match of the regular season for 2014/15 UnipolSai Super League. In the 26th day of continuous games, the yellow-blues will play an ‘away’ game at PalaBanca to challenge Copra Piacenza. kick-off is scheduled at 8.30pm broadcasted Live on Radio Dolomiti along with free streaming on the net at www.sportube.tv.
After the recovery and the victory against Monza in the 25th day of matches, the yellow-blues is looking for a triumphal conclusion in the regular season and to obtain it effectively the Trentino Volley must win their upcoming matches with any score. Modena and Treia competed on Sunday at PalaPanini. It will not be a simple task to gain victory taking into account this team in Emilia, and if the past is a predictor of the future then the previous two years showed how they would even sell their own skin to win, when they played in the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup.
"The latest results accrued in the league have made this match decisive for our final standings” - explained Radostin Stoytchev regarding the match -. ”The upcoming result will depend on our position in the grid in the championship playoffs; we are aware of the importance of this match and we have prepared for it carefully. We have found a difficult opponent during this season but with players like Zlatanov, Papi, Tencati and Poey and their quality of play they can change the course of a set or an entire match within moments notice.”
The technicians in Trentino Volley will dispose the entire force of the team, included greek player Mitar Djuric, which has just joined the team and will be on the regular roster with the thirteen players offering a viable alternative in the game. The team will leave for Modena early this evening after t heir 2-hours t echnical-tactical training session a t PalaTrento, and performing the usual pre-match training on Saturday morning at PalaBanca.
VICTORY OF THE REGULAR SEASON HAS ARRIVED ... The ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino Victory i n t he regular season of Super League 2014/15 UnipolSai can occur if one of the following four hypotheses is achieved: win by any result; lose the tie-break and Modena-Treia end the tie-break; lose the tie-break and Treia win by 3 points (3-0, 3-1) the match with Modena (achieve a better set than that of Treia t o arrival with e qual points) ; Modena loses 0-3 and wins 3-2, earning a best point ratio.
PREVIOUSLY Among the 599 official games in the archives of Trentino Volley, 45 (equal to 7.5 %) were played against Piacenza, which is the third opponent of the yellow-blues after Modena (50) and Cuneo (47). Th e stats favor Trento for 28-17, but in the last thirteen months there were two victories apart: in this season for Stoytchev team for 3-0 in the regular season on December 28th, 2014 and 3-2 in the Italian Cup quarter finals on January 6th, 2015 and one in the spring prior to the Emiliani for 3-0 at PalaBanca on February 19th, 2014 and 3-1 on March 8th, 2014 in Bologna for the Italian Cup semi-final. At Piacenza the Trentino Volley has won nine of the twenty meetings played since the past two years, the most recent game was on February 24th, 2013 for (2-3); after that win the tie break came with three straight losses, two in the playoffs and a championship in the regular season.
REFEREES T he meeting will be arbitrated by Stephen Caesar, the referee from Rome, in the highest category since 1999 and internationally since 2010, along with Simone Santi of Citta di Castello - Perugia in Serie A since 1994 and international FIVB from 2011. The two referees are on their second seasonal joint game; the sixteenth is the referee of Lazio, which has already refereed with ENERGY TI Diatec Trentino twice this regular season during Trento vs. Modena 3-0 on December 21st and in Treia vs. Trent 3-2 on March 1st. The fifteenth from Umbria has refereed for yellow-blues during their victories of Latina 3-2 on November 23rd and at a ‘home’ game with Ravenna 3-0 on February 15th.

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