Trento, 16 March 2018

Play Off Scudetto 2018, on Saturday night in Verona match 2 of quarterfinals

Three Trentino Diatec block against Stern (ph. Trabalza)

It will be played tomorrow, Saturday, March 17, at  PalaOlimpia in Verona, the match 2 of the quarterfinals Play Off Scudetto UnipolSai 2018. Diatec Trentino will go to Veneto with the possibility, in case of victory, to gain already access to the semifinals, being ahead 1-0 in the series that is divided into the best of the three matches. Starting whistle at 8.30 pm: live on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on Lega Volley Channel at www.elevensports.it/superlega.
Here Diatec Trentino The 3-2 victory achieved on Sunday night in the intense match 1 gave the first of two match balls to the yellow-blue line-up for the tenth time in the last eleven seasons to qualify for the Play Off semi-finals. Lorenzetti will try to close the speech and then be able to focus exclusively on the return match of the Champions League Playoffs 12 against the Chaumont VB 52 Haute Marne on Tuesday 20th at PalaTrento.
"We know very well Calzedonia’s value and we know it can put us in difficulty as the previous three seasonal matches have shown clearly - however, coach Angelo Lorenzetti warned. These experiences show how a fair reading in every phase of the match is necessary, because its development in these matches has never been regular. We must be ready to play so many sets and put the right and determined look into each one of them, showing that we are able to adapt to situations. It will be a challenge that can probably be decided in the service and reception fundamentals, which have already had a great influence on the results of the previous ones ".
Diatec will arrive in Verona this evening, after having trained in the early afternoon at the BLM Group Arena. In this circumstance the coach can count on all thirteen staff of his team. The Match 2 of the Scudetto UnipolSai 2018 quarter-finals will be the thirty-ninth season match of Trentino Volley: the balance is 24 wins and 14 losses. The match of PalaOlimpia will also be the 105th match of yellow-blue history in the Scudetto Play Offs (64 victories, 40 defeats), the 48th ever in the quarterfinals. In the previous fourteen appearances at this stage of the scoreboard, Trentino Volley won ten times the second match of the quarterfinal series, including the one played at PalaOlimpia in the 2010 edition of Play Offs: 3-2 on March 28th.
The Opponents Calzedonia Verona is getting ready to live the most important match of its season, having to win the match not to leave the UnipolSai 2018 Play Off Scudetto on Saturday evening. To do this he called his audience to gather, which will likely fill the PalaOlimpia as often happens on the occasion of the derby dell'Adige. As happened to Diatec Trentino, the commitment in the European Cups played immediately after Match 1 was stingy with satisfactions; On Tuesday night Verona was defeated by Ziraat Ankara in the going match of the CEV Cup semi-finals. The chances to revive their ambitions in the final part of the season then pass from the hands of the setter Spirito but especially from the attacks of Jaeschke, Stern and the relay in place 4 between Maar and Manavi, who played both Sunday and Tuesday evening.
The Background The thirty-third official comparison of the history between the two companies will be staged in Verona, the fourth of the season; the so-called Derby dell'Adige almost always went good for Trentino, 24-8 ahead in the total calculation and 2-1 in that linked to this championship. The tradition of the challenge to PalaOlimpia is particularly positive for Trentino: the Club has in fact conquered the Scaliger field in eleven circumstances on the fifteen total, including the last three appearances. To win within the walls of Calzedonia we must then go up until November 1, 2014 (3-0 on the fourth day of the regular season 2014/15); after that affirmation for Diatec Trentino arrived a tiebreak success on December 8 2015, one for 3-0 on November  9 2016 and one for 3-1, very recent, on January 21 2018 (Kovacevic mvp with 26 points) .
The Series Diatec Trentino forward 1-0 in the quarterfinal series that is played at the best of the three games, by virtue of 3-2 at PalaTrento last March 11 with partial of 25-23, 25-17, 19-25 , 24-26, 15-13 in the Match 1. Saturday in Verona Match 2, which could be the last only in case of another victory of Diatec. The eventual Match 3 will be staged in fact only if Calzedonia wins and will actually be played in Trentino Sunday, March 25 at 18 (date and time to be confirmed, for television needs may be anticipated on Saturday 24 at 18). Who will pass the round will pass to the semifinals (series will be the best of the five matches that starts on Wednesday, March 28) the winner of the fourth Perugia-Ravenna that sees the Umbrians 1-0 ahead (Sunday race 2 at Pala De Andrè). Also on Sunday at the top of the board will be played the second match between Piacenza and Civitanova (0-1) and Milan-Modena (0-1).
The Referees The Match 2 will be directed by Stefano Cesare (from Rome, in Serie A since 1999 and international since 2010) and Andrea Puecher from Padova (who has been in charge since 2003 and internationally since 2013). The pair is in the second joint match in SuperLega UnipolSai 2017/18; together they had already refereed Perugia-Trento 3-0 of 15 November 2017. Cesare, at the fifteenth personal direction, finds again the Diatec Trentino after having whistled also in the home challenge of January 14 with Civitanova (1-3), while Puecher (at the sixteenth match of his season) has already crossed Diatec during the home match with Milan (2-3) on October 15 and in the 3-1 with Monza on the day of Santo Stefano.
Radio, TV and Internet The match will be commented in live by Radio Dolomiti, Trentino Volley's network partner. The connections with the PalaOlimpia will be carried out within "Campioni di Sport", the sports container of via Missioni Africane, starting at 20.25. The frequencies to listen to the regional network can be consulted on the home page www.trentinovolley.it, while on the website www.radiodolomiti.com it will also be possible to listen to the live streaming radio commentary. The live streaming video on "Lega Volley Channel", on the Internet at  www.elevensports.it/superlega , the service is subject to charges. On TV the match will be broadcast on Monday, March 19 at 21.50 on RTTR, TV partner of the Society of via Trener. Finally, on the Internet, point-to-point updates will be taken care of by the Lega Volleyball Serie A website (www.legavolley.it) and by www.trentinovolley.it itself and will always be active on the yellow-blue social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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