Trento, 12 February 2019

2019 Cev Cup, the returning match of the quarterfinals on Wednesday at the BLM Group Arena

The returning matches for the quarterfinals of 2019 CEV Cup will take place between 13th and 14th February, for the second most important European competition. Itas Trentino is about to play its sixth European match of the season, the fourth at home: on Wednesday, at the BLM Group Arena it will face Lindaren Volley Amriswil, already defeated 3-0 in Swiss on 30th January 2018. The match is set for 8.30 pm Italian time: live on Radio Dolomiti.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO To continue along the path of this European competition and to aim for another international prestigious result, our team has to win two sets. It would be enough to qualify for the next round, considering that they have already won 3-0 in the going match .
Angelo Lorenzetti has to consider the physical conditions of some players: we must not be taken lightly this match also for this reason.  “Starting from  the match on Wednesday, a period different from the others that we lived up until now during this season will start – specified the coach - . In the next fifteen days we will necessarily visit the infirmary and maybe we will often need the players urgently, we will need some players to recover as well as possible. I will consider until the very last minute which starting six will need to play, but I hope that whoever will play will do so with the right attention and concentration because Amriswil is a team that can’t be underrated. Even though they have a lower absolute level they can cause us some problems, as it already happened in the third set of the going match”.
The training sessions on this evening and on Wednesday morning will be useful to take away any last doubt of starting six, where for sure Lisinac (who’s dealing with a problem in his calf that already limited him during the match played on Saturday evening in Bologna) won’t be and that could do without Giannelli and Kovacevic, that feel pain respectively in the abdominals and in the back.
56TH EUROPEAN MATCH AT THE BLM GROUP ARENA On Wednesday evening the BLM Group Arena will host the 56th European home match in the history of Trentino Volley, the 33rd of CEV Cup, where up until now it won twenty-seven matches (only five defeats: two against Ankara in 2005, one against Moscow in 2015, one against Fenerbahce and Tour in 2017). The last victory at a home match in CEV Cup dates back to less than a month ago (16th January, 3-1 in the return match in the round of sixteen against Haching). Trentino Itas in this case will play the 798th official match of its history, the 157th international (report: 129 victories and 28 defeats).
THE OPPONENTS Lindaren Volley Amriswil arriver, for the first time in its history, in Trento with the goal of turn the negative result round of the going match and don’t give more than one set to Trentino Itas. The Swiss team will need to work hard in order to qualify for the semifinals, the only result that would allow them to continue the championship and improve further a historic result. The team has never reached this point before in a CEV competition, even though they already played in fifteen editions of CEV Cup. After the going match, the team which is trained by the Dutch Marko Klok (famous for the Italian fans for winning a championship as a player in 2000 in Rome and playing in Serie A also for Città di Castello, Naples and Forlì), in the Swiss championship it won at home against Jona (3-0) and lost, last Sunday evening, in Lucerne (first ko in regular season after fifteen consecutive victories). Lindaren Volley Amriswil roster: 1. Clement Daniel (l), 2. Joshua Christofer Howatson (p), 3. Jan Messerli (c), 4. Luca Weber (p), 5. Luca Mueller (s), 6. Tinko Schnegg (l), 7. Matevz Kamnik (c), 9. Thomas Zass (o), 10. Ewoud Gommans (s), 11. Aleksander Ljubicic (c), 12. Dominik Fort (s), 14. Jovan Djokic (s), 15. Julian Weisigk (o), 17. Thomas Braendl (c). Coach Marko Klok.
TRENTINO ITAS IN SEMIFINAL IF… In order to pass the round Trentino Itas will need to win only two sets, thanks to the victory of the going match for 3-0, Giannelli and his teammates could in fact lose at the tie break to avoid the possibility of golden set against Lindaren Volley Amriswil, that will be played only if the Swiss team wins in four sets. The regulation is in fact identical to that used in the Playoffs 12 phase of CEV Champions League. The team that qualifies will face the winning team of the match Olympiacos Piraeus-Neftohimic Burgas (the return match will be played on Thursday evening, after the victory of the Bulgarians in four sets during the going match).
THE FORMULA AND OTHER MATCHES The 2019 CEV Cup includes six double rounds (going and return) of matches (Round of sixty-four, Round of thirty-two, Round of sixteen, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final) with direct elimination: the team that within two matches obtains the most points qualifies to the next round, assigned as during the championship, 3 for victory for 3-0 or 3-1, 2 for winning at the tie break, 1 for defeat at tie break (golden set to 15 in case of points tie). Other return matches of quarterfinals (in brackets the result of the going match): Wednesday: Kuzbass Kemerovo-Ford Store Levoranta Sastamala (3-0); Thursday: Olympiacos Piraeus-Neftohimic Burgas (1-3), Lindemans Alast-Galatasaray Istanbul (1-3).
PREVIOUS MATCHES The two teams faced each other before only during the going match, played on 30th January in AMriswill with Trentino Itas’ victory for 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-20) and Russell best scorer (16 points). Overall the balance against Swiss teams is in favor of Trentino Volley, taking also into account the success obtained on Lugano (two in the round phase of Champions League 2014) and Lausanne (two in the round of thirty-two of 2019 CEV Cup).
REFEREES The match will be arbitrated by Chantal Kaiser, French first referee from Paris, and by the Bulgarian Atanas Varbanov, second referee from Sofia. Neither of them has arbitrated Trentino Volley before.
RADIO AND INTERNET The complete match will be broadcasted by Radio Dolomiti, partner of Trentino Volley, with the first connection at 8.25 p.m.. It will be possible to consult all the frequencies of the regional network on the website www.radiodolomiti.com, and at the same time, listen to the report of the match on streaming by entering the “on air” section. It will be possible to consult the CEV official website on https://cevlive.cev.eu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=31574 that will give the live score, or Trentino Volley’s website on www.trentinovolley.it that will also offer the report of each set just a few minutes after the end of each single set, in order to follow the match step by step. The updates will always be active also on Trentino Volley’s social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
TICKETS The match is included in the package offered with the seasonal subscription 2018/19. For those who haven’t bought their ticket yet, the pre-sale is active until 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday at Trentino Volley’s offices (via Trener 2 in Trento) and Promoevent, in via Suffragio 10 in Trento, and on the internet on www.vivaticket.it/ita/event/trentino-itas-amriswil/126909. The tickets will also be available on Thursday at the register in the BLM Group Arena, that will be active starting from 7.30 p.m., same time when the entrances of the arena will be opened.

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