Trento, 18 January 2019

Big match versus Cucine Lube on Sunday: six match in the last twelve months

Itas Trentino resumed its training today towards its next match of SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 after the differentiated work of Thursday afternoon. The World Champions will play another home match at BLM Group Arena on Sunday versus Cucine Lube Civitanova in the big match of the eighteenth day of regular season.
This match will award three points of main importance for both the rankings and will see Lorenzetti’s team defending both the first place in ranking (which is constantly under Perugia’s attack, which will play versus Siena) and two important rows: the yellow-blues have in fact won the last twenty-one consecutive matches and have always won at home in the last twelve matches.
The most recent defeats conveniently came versus Cucine Lube Civitanova itself (both at the tie-break) before starting to win many matches in a row; the team from Marche was in fact the last one to conquer BLM Group Arena (April 12th 2018, return match of Playoffs 6 of Champions League) and to force the yellow-blues to stop (November 4th 2018, going match at Eurosuole Forum).
The 63rd official match between the two Clubs will be played on January 20th (live broadcast on RAI Sport + and Radio Dolomiti starting from 6 p.m.) and it will be the sixth one in the last twelve months. The overall balance sheet presents a perfect draw (31-31), thanks to the victory obtained on December 2nd 2018 in Czestochowa in occasion of the World Club Championship Final, which interrupted a series of nine victories in a row for Cucina Lube Civitanova. The most recent home victory is dated back to November 13th 2016 (3-1); in the next three matches the white-reds always won in Trento.

These are the detailed statistics of the matches between Trento and Civitanova:
Official played matches: 62 (24 in Trento, 17 in Macerata, 8 in Civitanova, 13 on neutral fields).
Victories: 31 (15 in Trento, 9 in Macerata, 7 on neutral fields); 9 3-0 victories, 10 3-1 victories, 12 3-2 victories.
Defeats: 31 (9 in Trento, 8 in Macerata, 8 in Civitanova, 6 on neutral fields); 10 0-3 defeats, 10 1-3 defeats, 11 2-3 defeats.
Sets: 125 won sets and 127 lost sets.
Previous matches in regular season: 37; 19 victories (11 in Trento, 8 in Macerata), 18 defeats (7 in Trento, 6 in Macerata, 5 in Civitanova).
In the last twelve months:
January 14th 2018 – regular season SuperLega (at BLM Group Arena): Diatec Trentino-Cucine Lube Civitanova 1-3 (13-25, 26-28, 25-20, 14-25)
April 4th 2018 – going match of Playoffs 6 of CEV Champions League (at EuroSuole Forum): Cucine Lube Civitanova-Trentino Diatec 3-1 (25-22, 23-25, 25-19, 28-26)
April 12th 2018 – return match of Playoffs 6 of CEV Champions League (at BLM Group Arena): Trentino Diatec-Cucine Lube Civitanova 2-3 (19-25, 21-25, 25-20, 27-25, 15-17)
November 4th 2018 – regular season SuperLega (at EuroSuole Forum): Cucine Lube Civitanova-Itas Trentino 3-2 (22-25, 25-14, 22-25, 25-20, 15-13)
December 2nd 2018 – World Club Championship Final (at Hala Sportowa in Czestochowa): Cucine Lube Civitanova-Trentino Diatecx 1-3 (20-25, 25-22, 20-25, 18-25)

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