Trento, 01 April 2018

Diatec Trentino-Sir Safety Conad 3-2, the match report

Rusell blocked by Kozamernik and Giannelli during the match (ph. Trabalza)

Here the chronicle of match 2.The two coaches reproposed the same starting sixs of Thursday night in Umbria for the first match of the series; Lorenzetti choeses Giannelli as setter, Vettori as opposite hitter, Lanza and Kovacevic as spiekrs, Eder and Kozamernik as middle blockers, De Pandis and Chiappa alternating in the role of libero; Bernardi confirms De Cecco as setter, Atanasijevic as opposite hitter, Zaytsev and Berger as spikers, Podrascanin and Anzani as middle blockers and Colaci as libero.

Perugia had the best first impact on the match thanks to the blocks of Anzani and Podrascanin which make them reach the 6-9, forcing Trento to ask for a time-out. After that Zaytsev performs a break (7-11), making his team go four points ahead, and then five (9-14)when Lanza attacks out.

Then Diatec Trentino tries to get closer to their score with Kozamernik at service (12-14), but it is only momentary because the team from Umbria with Berger and Anzani run faster again till the 15-20. Then Trento tries again with Kovacevic (20-23) but fwhen they seem to feel resigned (20-24) they start doing great things. Kozamernik at service at the 21-24 performs 5 break points in a row, so deleting every set point for Perugia, with an unstoppable Kovacevic. The ace of the Slovenian middle blocker against Zaytsev closes the first set 26-24.

Perugia comes back on the field all wound up, and imposes itself since the beginning of the set with the first services, thanks to Atanasijevic; they go from 2-4 to 2-11 without allowing Trento a side-out. Lorenzetti makes Hoag go at Vettori's place, but doesn't obtain good results, since Perugia continues scoring points in the break phase (10-22) without suffering any kind of resistance from the home team, who make the opponents win 13-25.

Perugia doesn’t give up during the third set indeed it takes the lead (3-5) and widens the gap thanks to Zaytsev and Russell (7-11). Lorenzetti alternates Hoag and Lanza and two attacks of the Canadian player allow Trento to fill the gap (13-16), but the situation keeps changing because of the strength of Atanasijevic (16-21) and since the yellow-blues are not able to reply in a convincing way Sir Safety has the chance to go up to 1-2 (18-25).

Diatec Trentino wants to fight and its determination can be seen during the beginning of the fourth set with Kovacevic and Vettori who bite the bullet and reach the 5-1. Perugia tries to reply going up to 8-6 in a few minutes but then Eder (ace) and Kozamernik (block on Podrascanin) allow the yellow-blues to take matters into their hands (14-9). Sir Safety with Russell’s services recovers (17-15), it begins to waver on the 19-15 but then it gets its strength back thanks to Zaytsev (21-20, Lorenzetti’s time out). The two teams reach the tie break thanks to Giannelli’s service (24-22) and Kovacevic’s attack during the second chance of side-out (25-23).
On the wave of enthusiasm, Diatec Trentino reaches the 6-3 even during the fifth set;

Perugia seems on the ropes when also Colaci suffers in receiving. Zingel, on the field instead of Eder, scores two points for the 10-4  and for Trentino Volley the race towards the victory is not a difficult one and they win on the 15-10 with a pipe of Lanza.

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