Trento, 20 January 2019

SuperLega, Cucine Lube stops the victories of Itas Trentino: 1-3 at BLM Group Arena

Itas Trentino has won for twenty-one times in a row and this evening Cucine Luce has stopped the series of victories of the yellow-blue team (Cucine Lube also won in the going match on 4th November), winning at BLM Group Arena. This evening the champions of the world have lost 1-3 versus Cucine Lube Civitanova in the big match of the eighteen session of SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 regular season; this defeat also coasted the first place in the ranking. Thanks to Juantorena and Sokolov and, more generally, to a break point phase very efficient, the guests immediately managed to control the match and to restart during the third set, when Itas Trentino performed a come back especially thanks to Vettori and Lisinac (the best of yellow-blue team). Among the players of Itas Trentino, the performance of Candellaro (100% in attack) and Van Garderen, who played in the second set to help Kovacevic, was positive.

Below is the scoreboard of the match of the eighteenth regular season match of SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19, played tonight at the BLM Group Arena in Trento.

Itas Trentino-Cucine Lube Civitanova 1-3
(20-25, 25-23, 22-25, 20-2)
ITAS TRENTINO: Giannelli 6, Kovacevic 8, Lisinac 10, Vettori 16, Russell 13, Candellaro 8, Grebennikov (L); Nelli, Van Garderen 6. N.e. Cavuto, Daldello, De Angelis, Codarin. All. Angelo Lorenzetti.
CUCINE LUBE: Cester 4, Bruno 1, Juantorena 16, Simon 12, Sokolov 22, Leal 12, Balaso (L); Kovar, D’Hulst, Cantagalli, Diamantini, Massari. N.e. Marchisio e Stankovic. All. Ferdinando De Giorgi.
REFEREES: Boris di Vigevano (Pavia) e Simbari from Milan.
DURATION OF THE SET: 27’, 29’, 30’, 27’; tot 1h e 53’.
NOTES: 4,000 spectators, with takings of 53,894 euros.
Itas Trentino: 9 blocks, 3 aces, 21 errors in the service, 54% in attack, 65% (33%) in reception. Cucine Lube Civitanova: 9 bloks, 5 aces, 16 errors in the service, 55% in attack, 61% (25%) in reception. Mvp Sokolov.

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