Simone Giannelli sets the ball during the match at Azoty Hall
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Trento, February 13th 2018
After almost a month, the 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League returns at PalaTrento. Tomorrow evening Wednesday, February 14th, the match will be played at the top of Pool E (Main Phase) of the most important club continental event: Trentino Diatec will face the Polish Champions of Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle. The match is scheduled for 8.30 pm: live TV on Fox Sports, Radio Dolomiti and live audio and video streaming on the website www.laola1.tv.
Here Trentino Diatec The penultimate match of the Pool Phase of the tournament offers a great opportunity to the yellow-blue team; in case of victory at the most in four sets, Lanza and his teammates would mathematically win the first place of Pool E with a day in advance. Succeeding, however, will not be a simple undertaking, taking into account the defeat at the tie break in Poland and the frenetic pace of the calendar, which will see the team play the fifth match in this month of February. "It's a decisive match for the first place in the Pool and it will have to be face with this spirit - explained coach Angelo Lorenzetti -. After the first match lost in the tie break we have the opportunity to redeem ourselves and take an important step towards the Playoffs 12 but we know that it won’t be easy because we’ll face a strong opponent, who is first not by chance in an important championship like the Polish one ". Trentino Diatec coach will have the entire squad of thirteen players at his disposal and will finish the preparation between tonight and Wednesday morning with the last two technical-tactical training sessions still available before the match. Trento-Kedzierzyn-Kozle will be the forty-ninth European home match in the history of Trentino Volley, the thirty-fourth ever in the Champions League at PalaTrento, where until now has achieved thirty wins and only three defeats: one of these, however, refers precisely to a challenge against Zaksa (at the tie break on December 14th, 2011). Still on the subject of numbers, for Diatec, the one with the Poles will be the 142nd international match of all time, the 109th in Europe, the 79th in the Champions League.
The Opponents Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle peeps for the fourth time at PalaTrento with the need to put behind a not simple period of its own history. Despite continuing to lay down the law in the PlusLiga, the Polish championship with ten points ahead of Warsaw second, the white-red-blue team in fact has recently failed the first important match in its homeland being eliminated by Gdansk in the National Cup semifinals and two weeks ago in Maaseik had to deal with the first seasonal defeat in the Champions League. The knockout at the tie break has taken the lead from the Pool to Andrea Gardini's team, who will have to win on Wednesday evening to win it back. The captain of the three world championship successes of the Italian National Team (1990, 1994 and 1998) will play on this occasion the first official match at home of his coaching career, but still doesn’t know if he can use in 4th place the Belgian Deroo. The former spiker of Modena and Verona got a sprained ankle during the 3-0 home on Lubin last Saturday and is likely not to play the match. The rose of Zaksa Kedizerzyn-Kozle: 1. Pawel Zatorski (l), 2. Krysztof Bienkowski (p), 3. Rafal Szymura (s), Krzysztof Rejno (c), 5. Marco Falaschi (p), 6. Benjamin Toniutti (p), 7. Rafal Buszek (s), 8. Slawomir Jungiewicz (o), 9. Lukasz Wisniewski (c), 10. Mateusz Bienek (c), 11. Maurice Torres (o), 12. Krzysztof Zaplacki (s) ), 13. Kamil Semeniuk (s), 15. Sam Deroo (s), 17. Aleksander Maziarz (c), 18. Korneliusz Banach (l). Andrea Gardini coach.
The situation of Pool E Trentino Diatec and Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle are leading the Pool rankings thanks to three victories in four matches; the yellow-blues are however ahead of the Poles thanks to a greater number of points scored (10 against 9). With two victories then follows the Noliko Maaseik (4 points), while still at the post is Arkas Izmir (1 point), who will face the Belgians in Turkey in the same evening (at 17.00 Italian time). On the sixth and final day, scheduled for Wednesday, February 28th, Trentino Diatec will face Noliko and Zaksa-Arkas. The first two classified of each of the five Pools and the best two third ones access the Playoffs 12.
The previous matches The match that is taking place on Wednesday will be the eighth one between the two Clubs. Zaksa is the Polish opponent that the team faced the greatest number of times: seven times in total, in background of 17 total matches against five different opponents. Besides Kedzierzyn-Kozle, the Club of via Traner also boasts previous matches against Belchatow (4), Cszestochowa (2), Rzeszow (2) e Jastrzebski (2). The balance against Polish teams sheet is positive, thanks to fourteen won matches and only three defeats, but two of them were right against Zaksa. The first one occurred about six years ago (on December 14th 2011, with a score of 2-3 at PalaTrento), on the occasion of the first match between the two teams (round phase of Champions League), while the second one took place on December 20th 2017 in Poland (3-2, sets ended by 18-25, 24-26, 25-23, 25-16, 15-12). It was the first match of Pool E. The other two matches against Kedzierzyn-Kozle on the home field were won by the yellow-blues: 3-0 on November 14th 2012 and 3-1 on March 28th 2015.
The referees The match will be directed by Juray Mokry, first referee, from martin, Slovakia, and by the Bulgarian Konstantin Yovchev, second referee. Mokry is the only one who can boast a previous experience with Trento, and what is more it happened in prestigious matches: Trento-Salonicco, 3-1, on April 4th 2009 (final of Champions League in Praga), Trento- Mosca, 3-0, on December 17th 2009 and Trento-kazan on March 27th 2011 (final of Champions League in Bolzano).
TV, radio and internet The match will be broadcast live by fox Sports, it will be possible to watch it on the Sky satellite platform in the Sky Sport HD pocket, channel 204; the play-by-play will be done by Stefano Lucatelli and Samuele Papi. As always, the match will also be commented live on the radio channel Radio Dolomiti,which is a partner of Trentino Volley. The first radio link will happen at 8:25pm. On the site www.radiodolomiti.com it will be possible to listen to the frequencies of the regional network and to the streaming of the match chronicle, entering the section “on air”. Also the site www.laola1.tv is transmitting the match live; in order to follow the matches all you have to do is click on the CEV Champions League section (which can be reached clicking on http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/channel/volleyball-cev-champions-league-men-livestream-video-for-free) and then clicking on the red icon “live”. If you want to follow the match point by point you can look on the CEV official site; on the website http://cevlive.cev.lu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=30855 you will find the live score.
The score will be constantly updated on the site www.trentinovolley.it and on the yellow-blues social media (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook e www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
Tickets and merchandising. The match is included in your season ticket. The pre-sale of the ticket will be active until Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm at the Trentino Volley point of Via Trener and in the offices of Promoevent, in via Suffragio 10 in Trento, and any time on internet on the site www.vivaticket.it/ita/event/trentino-diatec-zaksa/109141.
The ticket office of palaTrento will be open from 7:30pm, same time at which the doors of the building will open, and will be active until the end of the second set. From that moment it won’t be possible to enter the building to see the match anymore.
Inside the fans can find the merchandising point, on the north side. Many Trentino Volley items will be for sale.
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