Trento, 29 December 2018

Itas Trentino-Globo Banca Popolare del Frusinate Sora 3-0, report of the match

Report of the match. Angelo Lorenzetti decides to make his spiker Russell rest (but still available) for the last match of the year, letting space to Van Garderen in the starting six. All the other six players were confirmed: Giannelli as setter, Vettori in the opposite role, Kovacevic as spiker, Lisinac and Candellaro as middle-blockers and Grebennikov in the libero role. Globo Banca Popolare del Frusinate Sora fields Kedzierski as setter, Petkovic in the opposite role, Fey and Joao Rafael as spikers, Caneschi and Di Martino as middle-blockers and Bonami in the libero role. The start of the match is very hard for the yellow-blues, with Sora making the most of the performance of Kedzierski (block) and Petkovic and getting on 0-4, forcing the hosting team to call for the first time out of the evening. At the resumption of the game Lisinac is able to fill the gap with his attacks and aces (6-6 and 8-6). The hosts start getting nervous and making some fouls and Trento exploits the chance to get ahead (14-11). The yellow-blue run doesn’t last long because new-entered Marrazzo makes his team get to 17-17 with his services, forcing Lorenzetti to ask for another time-out. The draw lasts just a moment because Itas Trentino gets very focused and goes on +3 (21-18); this advantage is decisive and the hosting team wins the set on 25-19.
The great moment in break-point phase of the World Champions continues in the second set as well with Vettori who guides his teammates towards the first advantage (7-3), increasing the distance between the two teams with his services (10-4). Globo Banca Popolare del Frusinate tries to come back with a couple of good plays (13-9), but Trento runs away again (15-9, 20-9) led by his Emiliano opposite. In the final of the set there’s space for Kocavevic’s show as well (24-10) and for the first-strike of Lisinac who gets the 2-0 (25-11).
The start of the third set is a bit more gripping and the Laziali gets from 6-3 to 7-6 before suffering another yellow-blue assault (10-6). Lorenzetti changes his main diagonal (Daldello and Nelli in) and finds great answers from the newly-entered (16-10); Sora changes many players as well and gets to -3 (18-15) but Van Garderen is on fire (21-16). The 3-0 comes on 25-23 only because De Angelis (changed in place of Grebennikov) suffers in reception and let the host get some points.

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