Trento, 23 March 2018

On Saturday at BLM Group Arena in Trento (at 18) the Match 3 of quarter finals of Play Off

An attack of Uros Kovacevic against the block of Calzedonia Verona (ph. Trabalza)

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 24th, starting from 18 at BLM Group Arena in Trento, the third and decisive challenge of the Final Quarter series Play Off Scudetto UnipolSai 2018 between Diatec Trentino and Calzedonia Verona. Seven days after Match 2 in Veneto, which brought back the same fate of the match, then back in the field for the game that will give the winner access to the Semifinal. Live on RAI Sport + HD and on Radio Dolomiti.
Here Diatec Trentino The yellow-blue team is facing with the most important commitment of its SuperLega championship: to continue to compete for the Scudetto in fact requires a victory with any score, which would allow them to reach the tenth semifinal Play Off in the last eleven years. By virtue of the best final position in the regular season standings, Lanza and his teammates will be able to face this delicate commitment to their public. "Match 3 is the natural landing place for this series that promised to be balanced on the eve and this has been confirmed - explained the Trentino Volley coach Angelo Lorenzetti during the presentation -. The differences between the two teams, as already shown by the ranking, have been so far minimal; also in this case I expect a long and hard-fought match, which seals what has been seen so far in the previous challenges. The physicality of Verona has put a lot of pressure on us, forcing us to be more foolish than usual. On this occasion we will have to be good at supporting it better to succeed in making our game ". The coach can count on all the thirteen players, who have been training regularly in the last days at the BLM Group Arena. Even Vettori, who last Saturday at the PalaOlimpia got an injury to the right ankle, has indeed perfectly recovered and will be regularly available.
Eleventh Tie-Breaking Match in Play Off Scudetto In the fifteen previous participations in the Play Off Scudetto, Trentino Volley has already played eleven Tie-Breaking Matches, similar to the one on Saturday, winning seven: two with Modena (season 2005/06, 3-2 at PalaPanini in Match 3 with qualification at the semi-finals and season 2010/11, 3-1 at PalaTrento in Match 5 with qualification to the Final then won over Cuneo), two with Piacenza (match that delivered both the Scudetto: 3-0 at PalaTrento in Match 3 of final 2008 and 3 -2 again at PalaTrento in Match 5 of the 2013 final), one with Molfetta (3-1 at PalaTrento in the quarterfinals 2016) and two with Perugia (home success at the tiebreak in the 3rd Match of the 2015 semi-final and success in three sets in Match 5 of the semi-finals 2017). The only home play-off that did not smile in Trento is that referring to Match 5 of the 2009 championship final, lost at the PalaTrento to the tie-break with Piacenza; the other six have instead been all winners. The most frequent result was the tie break; the fifth set served to settle six of the eleven “belle" (good ones) disputed by the yellow-blues, smiling three times to the Society from Trento. For Trentino Volley, the one with Perugia will be the 756th official match of its history and the 41st season.
The Opponents Calzedonia Verona arrives at the appointment at the end of a week that has seen her come out with dignity from the 2018 CEV Cup. Tuesday evening in Ankara the team of Nikola Grbic has managed to completely overturn the result of the semi-final (going match) with the Ziraat (able to impose itself to the PalaOlimpia for 1-3), winning at the tie break in the house of the Turks. The conclusion of the European path will allow the team from Verona to focus only on the Italian league and the match from inside or outside the BLM Group Arena. In its history, the company has never exceeded the quarter-finals of the Play Offs in nine previous participations, however, coming to play the qualification for the playoff game in four editions (2005, 2015, 2016, 2017).
The Backgrounds Saturday will be played the thirty-fourth official match between Trentino Volley and Blu Volley Verona, the fifth of the season 2017/18. The statistics sees the Club of via Trener 24-9 ahead, but at home has lost four of the seventeen matches played, including that of the regular season 2017/18 played on November 4th for 1-3. In the only precedent relating to a match 3 played against each other in the Play Offs (quarterfinals of the 2010 edition), it was Diatec Trento that in the then PalaTrento ruled the opponents in three sets, breaking the pass for the semi-finals in the but that series developed on five challenges (won 3-0 by the Trentino). In the current championship two wins per side, with the same number of sets won (nine).
The series
Trento and Verona are 1-1 in the series of the quarterfinals of Play Offs Scudetto UnipolSai2018that will end on Saturday night, after the 3-2 in the home field gained in the BLM Group Arena in the match 1 of March 11th (sets concluded with a 25-23, 25-17, 19-25, 24-26, 15-13) and in the match 2 at PalaOlimpia on March 16th  (sets concluded with a 25-23, 21-25, 23-25, 26-24, 15-13). Because of these final scores a third match is necessary. The team that will win and move to the next round will play the semifinals (best out of five matches, the first of which will take place on Thursday March 29th) against the winning team of the match of Sunday at PalaEvangelisti, in which Sir Safety Conad and Bunge Ravenna (1-1)will play one against the other. In the lowest part of the ranking the other matching for the semifinals has already been decided after the match 2 (Civitanova-Ravenna).
The referees
The match will be arbitrated by Giorgio Gnani, who's first referee from Ferrara, and Fabrizio Saltalippi, who's the second referee from Perugia. It will be the nineteenth seasonal match in SuperLega for Gnani, who has been tenured since 1997 and international since 2009; three out of the nineteen seasonal matches were with Trentino Volley, who always won in four sets: in the home field against Castellana Grotte on October 28th, in Frosinone against Sora on December 13th and in Verona on January 21st. As far as Saltalippi is concerned, he's been a referee in the first category since 1995 and an international referee since 2000. This will be his 17th seasonal match; just one of them has been with Trento: the match in which Trento won 3-1 in the home field against Ravenna on Januray 7th.
TV, Radio and internet
Match 3 will be a global media event, it will be broadcast live on television, radio and internet at the same time. It will be broadcast on RAI Sport + HD, a channel which is both present on the digital terrestrial television (channel 57 in HD and 58 in sd) and on the satellite, on Sky, channel 227, with the comment of Marco Fantasia and Claudio Galli; the images will also be spread via internet on streaming on the site www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisport/multimedia/diretta.html and they will continue with an inercontinental visibiltity (twenty six connected countries) thanks to the live coverage by Band Sports, Sportsklub, Sportsklub Poland, Dowaly/Kuwait Sport, Sportmax Caraibi, Telesports, Ote, Saran and Img.
The live commentary will be broadcast on Radio Dolomiti, the radio partner of Trentino Volley, starting from 6:00 pm with the voice of Stefani Piffer. All the frequencies to listen to the regional network are available on the home page of the site of the Club,www.trentinovolley.it, while in order to listen to the commentary on streaming you have to go on  www.radiodolomiti.com and click on the section “On Air”.
The pre-recording will be broadcast on tv on Monday March 26th at 9:50pm and on RTTR – partner tv of Trentino Volley.
On internet the updates point by point will be available on the site of Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it) and on  www.trentinovolley.it , and they will also be available on the yellow-blues' social networks  (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook e www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
Tickets, merchandising and “Dorigoni DAY”
Presale of the tickets is open until 12:30 pm of Saturday night at the Trentino Volley point, via Trener 2 in Trento, until 3:30 pm in the offices of Promoevent, in via Suffragio 20 in Trento, and anytime on internet at  www.vivaticket.it/ita/event/diatec-trentino-play-off-quarti-gara-3/110590.
On Saturday ticket office in BLM Group Arena will open at 5pm, same time that PalaTrento gates will be open. Ticket office will remain open until the end of the second set, when it will no longer be possible to access inside to see the match.
Inside, behind the north stand, fans will find the merchandising point where to buy gadgets of Trentino Volley.
For the occasion of their long time partnership, Trentino Volley and Dorigoni will celebrate the “Dorigoni Day” by organizinf many initiatives in whoch the official supplier will be the protagonist on the match program, in the Hospitality Area and in the LEDs, in whih the Dorigoni brand will be present. Also the prize  for the mvp of the match will have the Dorigoni brand on it. The mvp will be chosen by the journalists on the press box.

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