Verona, 17 February 2019

SuperLega, on Monday the 37th edition of Derby Adige

After the match of Final Four of Del Monte® Coppa Italia Final Four, SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 starts again. The Itas Trentino will be the protagonist of the match that will be played on Monday 18 February at the AGSM Forum in Verona at 8pm and will propose the derby of Adige at the Calzedonia. : broadcast on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on Lega Volley Channel by clicking www.elevensports.it/superlega.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO Itas trentino will face the shortest trip of the season to obtain the three points that keep the chances for the first place in the standings. The victory of Wednesday evening against Amriswil offered the qualification for the 2019 CEV Cup semi-final but also provided convincing answers about the players used in the game (Codarin, Van Garderen and Nelli above all), at a time when the coach Angelo Lorenzetti have to evaluate carefully the physical conditions of some of his players. However, the last trainings were encouraging, which saw the return to the group of Kovacevic and Giannelli (out against the Swiss becouse of pain in their back and abdominals) and Lisinac working in a different way.
"From here to the end of the regular season we have three very difficult trips waiting for us", said the coach of ITAS Trentino, also referring to the next away matches in Busto Arsizio and Modena - the one against Verona is the first one and I hope that the players face it with the same conviction as always and that they understand the period we are experiencing. Compared to the last match both teams are now different and the two seasonal victories obtained against Calzedonia no longer count. Moreover this time our opponents will play at home and are looking for points to improve their position; It will be a very difficult match, as often happens in SuperLega when you play away".
Itas Trentino will train at the BLM Group Arena this evening and will go to Verona on Monday morning. Trentino Volley will go for the 335th success in the regular season, the 558th ever in 799 official matches.
THE STRENGHT OF THE 8 FORMERS MEMEBERS eight players, coaches and components of the staff: Nikola Grbic, Daniele De Pandis, Sebastian Solé, Matey Kaziyski and Emanuele Birarelli for Verona; Angelo Lorenzetti, his assistant Dante Boninfante and Uros Kovacevic for Trento..
THE OPPONENTS. Back from four victories in a row in the championship, Calzedonia Verona is waiting for the visit of Its Trentino on Monday (on Saturday and Sunday AGSM Forum was not available) to try to redeem the only recent defeat and try to keep up with Milano. Since the yellow-blue Company has offered Grbic a valuable player like Kaziyski, the Veronese have collected points in regular season in eight of the nine games played, collecting something from the away games of Perugia and Civitanova.
The impact of the Bulgarian spiker (who remains by far the best striker in the Trentino history: 4,945 points in 334 matches, including 203 as captain) on the Calzedonia championship was notable: Matey has already done 150 points in 9 matches, with 47% in attack and 19 aces, helping the French opposite Boyer (fourth bomber of the tournament with 403 winning balls). Verona can also count on the blocks of Solé (58 in twenty matches, best blocker of the tournament).
PREVIOUS MATCHES. Trentino Volley and Blu Volley Verona already have thirty-six official matches behind them: six in the championship play off (2010 and 2018), twenty-nine in regular season and one, the most recent, in Coppa Italia 2019.
The result is definitely favorable to Itas Trentino who has won twenty-seven times, including the two already played this season both concluded 3-0 at BLM Group Arena: 18th November (set of 25-16, 25-23, 25-18 e Lisinac mvp) and 23rd January (25-20, 25-12, 25-21). The last success of Verona, however, refers to a game played at AGSM Forum: march 17th 2018 3-2 in match 2 of the quarterfinals of Championship play off.
REFEREES. The match will be arbitrated by a couple from Siracusa composed by Alesandro Tanasi (from Noto - Siracusa) and Gianluca Cappello (from Sortino). This is the first match together in SuperLega Credem Banca 2018/19 for the two referees, the tenth one for Tanasi and the eleventh one for Cappello, who have arbitrated also Padua-Trento in the current regular season.
RADIO, INTERNET, TV. The match will be live on Radio Dolomiti, the Trentino Volley network partner. The connections with Verona will be made on "Campioni di Sport", a space reserved to sport of the transmitter of via Missioni Africane. On www.radiodolomiti.com it will also be possible to listen to the live report. Click on www.elevensports.it/superlega for the streaming video (service on payment). On TV the full match will be broadcast on Friday 22nd February at 10.00 p.m on RTTR, TV partner of Trentino Volley. Finally, on Internet, all the updates on the Lega Volleyball Serie A website (www.legavolley.it) and on www.trentinovolley.it. They will always be active on the social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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