Trento, 03 November 2018

SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 ready on sunday for the fifth match

SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 ready on Sunday 4 November to play the fifth day of the regular season. Itas Trentino will be present in the third league trip; starting at 6.15 pm the team will be at Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche to play against Cucine Lube. Live on RAI Sport + HD and Radio Dolomiti.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO After the success in three sets of Thursday against Vibo Valentia, Kovacevic and the rest of the team immediately face another very important match, which is giving three points for the high area of the ranking. Itas Trentino shares the third place with Civitanova and Monza with nine points and will try to go back home with a positive result not to lose ground from the teams that precede it (Perugia, still with full points, and Modena). "Our start of the Championship has been very challenging; after the last match of Sunday in Perugia, now we are going to Civitanova Marche on the field of one of the best teams in the world, with great potential in all areas of the game – said the coach of Itas Trentino Angelo Lorenzetti talking about the game- . It's a difficult match, but it was important to get three points obtained against Vibo Valentia, which offer us serenity and the chance to get closer to a good ranking position. But we must be protagonists of this event and not think that it is obvious".
Aaron Russell has healed from the stomach virus that had forced him to follow the match against Tonno Callipo Calabria on the bench and will therefore be ready as all the other twelve players. Among these, also Davide Candellaro and Jenia Grebennikov, the former Cucine Lube’s players, will return for the first time at the Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche. It will be the 770th official match of the history of Trentino Volley, the 461st ever in regular season and will see the team go for the 254th absolute away victory.
GIANNELLI AT 200th MATCH WITH TRENTINO VOLLEY Captain Simone Giannelli will play the match number 200 with Itas Trentino, becoming the seventh player to reach that place, after Birarelli and Colaci (345 for both), Bari (339), Kaziyski (334), Lanza (300) and Della Lunga (215) and the youngest ever to do so. The previous record belonged to Lanza, who reached 200 in September 2016, when he was 24 and a half years old. The guy from South Tyrol took presence in 2013/14 (October 27, 2013 in Ravenna, the youngest ever to play with Trento), 40 in 2014/15, 48 in 2015 / 16, 56 in 2016/17, 48 in 2017/18 and 6 in the current one. With the 686 points achieved so far, Simone is also today the most prolific setter in the history of company.
THE OPPONENTS Cucine Lube Civitanova wait for Itas Trentino with the desire to reverse the result respect of the game played Thursday afternoon in front of its audience. The  ko in three sets against Perugia has slipped Cucine Lube Civitanova to third place in the rankings; in order not to lose ground compared to the first position, the Medei team therefore need the three points at stake. During the summer the team training was amply reinforced, inserting into the staff three absolute top players and the best Italian prospect in his role: from Padua the libero Balaso, the Brazilian setter Bruno, the middle-blocker Simon (former Piacenza) and the spiker Leal were taken. Sokolov's flash recovery (which had a surgery on his left knee in June) has also offered the opportunity to work fully to the next important events (Champions League and World Cup for Clubs).
PREVIOUS. Cucine Lube is the opponent that Trentino Volley faced the most after Modena (70 matches): 60 matches, with 30 victories a head. In the current year, the two teams have competed three times already, with positive results for Lube that won two times in Trento (3-1 on 14th January in regular season and 3-2 on 11th April in Champions League) and one time in the Marche region (3-1 on 4th April in the first round of Coppa Campioni’s Playoffs 6). Trentino Volley’s most recent success dates back to November 13th 2016 (3-2 at PalaTrento in regular season), whereas the last victory for Trentino Volley at Lube’s home is dated 10th February 2013 (3-1), when the location was the Fontescodella of Macerata. In the new structure of Civitanova Marche, Trento has never won during the seven matches played.
THE REFEERES. The match will be directed by Mauro Goitre from Turin – referee since 2008 and international since 2016 – and by Giorgio Gnani (from Ferrara, in Serie A since 1996). For the two refeeres it is the first time together in Super Lega Credem Banca 2018/19, the second time for Goitre and the third time for Gnani. The latest meet for Mauro Goitre with Trentino Volley is dated 29th of March (3-1 defeat in Perugia), whereas for Giorgio Gnani it relates to 15th of April (home victory with Sir Safety Valley for 3-0). Curiously Goitre had arbitrated the last championship match too which was played between the two formations at Eurosole Forum: 1st November 2017, 3-0 victory for Lube’s team.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET. Civitanova-Trento will be a media event of global dimensions, enjoying the live coverage on all types of media. RAI Sport + HD will broadcast the match with Maurizio Colantoni and Andrea Lucchetta’s comment; the match will be in streaming on www.raisport.rai.it as well. As usual, Radio Dolomiti offers the live coverage starting from 6.10 p.m. Check www.radiodolomiti.com to find all the frequencies and, at this link, you can find the radio report too, by clicking on “On Air” section. The pre-recording of the match will be on air on Monday 5th November at 9.50 p.m on RTTR. In the end, all the updates will be on the website of Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it), on www.trentinovolley.it and on our social network too (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook  e www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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