Trento, 10 April 2018
Champions League, on Wednesday at the BLM Group Arena the return of the Italian derby
Uros Kovacevic spikes during the home match (ph. Spalvieri)
The return match of the Italian derby of the Playoffs 6 of 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League will be played on Wednesday at the BLM Group Arena of Trento. This is the second and last elimination phase before the Final Four of Kazan (12th-13th May). Trentino Diatec will host the Italian Champions of Cucine Lube Civitanova and they will try to overturn the 1-3 of the first round. The match will start at 8.30 p.m., live on Fox Sports, Radio Dolomiti and audio and video live streaming at www.laola1.tv.
Here Trentino Diatec in order to continue its European rush and obtain the access to the sixth Final Four of Champions League out of eight participations overall, the team from Trento must play in a perfect way: in fact they must win in four sets maximum and then they will give it a go for the pass to Kazan during the golden set. A difficult task but it is still possible for Angelo Lorenzetti’s team. The trainer recovers the opposite Vettori (who trained regularly during the last two days) and look to their dedication with confidence and a positive spirit.
“This match inaugurates four days in whch we will put into play all our possibilities to continue our season. We must think about one game at a time and enjoy the moment, which propose to us only decisive matches, from both inside and outside – said Trentino Diatec’s trainer– . It is obvious that after the result of the first round we must do our best to pass the turn but to my players I will ask to play with a clear mind and to focus on winning. If we want to create trouble for Lube we must not be influenced by the score. We will face a very strong team, we cannot predict how it will be.With this match the yellow-blues open a period of four matches during which they will play in front of their audience (on Sunday game 4 of the Semi-final against Perugia)and they will be able to do it in a complete way. Against Lube, Trentino Volley will play the 147th international game in its history (evaluation 119 victories, 27th defeats), the 84th of ever in Champions League. In front of their audience the yellow-blues played in front of their audience 36 matches and they lost only 4 of them.
The opponents the victory in four sets obtained in the first round match puts the third consecutive Final Four of Champions League only at two set from Cucine Lube Civitanova. Cucine Lube team will play in a positive way thanks to their success of seven days before but also thanks to the spirit that the success against Modena in game 3 of Semi-final has guaranteed them. In occasion of the 3-2 of Sunday on the Emilians, the Italian Champions and Vice World Champions must be grateful to Sokolov (34 points) and on this occasion they can count on Stankovic as in the European competiotions there are no limits as regards the number of foreign players. The white-red captain with his 15 personal points in the centre of the net area has already been the match winner of the first round match for his contribution not only in the net area (79% during the first time and 2 blocks) but also in service.
Tv, Radio and Internet The match will be broadcast live by Fox Sports, you can watch the match on the satellite platform of Sky in the package Sky Sport HD (channel 204), with the commentary of Stefano Locatelli and Samuele Papi.
The match will be broadcast live from 8:25pm by Radio Dolomiti, which is the partner transmitter of Trentino Volley. On the website 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 website 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 this link) and then clicking on the red icon “live” which will appear nearby up in the page.
If you want to follow the match point by point you can look on the CEV official site; on the website pagina 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 and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
Trentino Volley Srl
Press Office
