Trento, 23 February 2019

Itas Trentino-Kioene Padova 3-0, the match report

Report of the match. Itas Trentino starts with its usual starting six in front of its public: Giannelli as setter, Vettori in the opposite role, Russel and Kovacevic as spikers, Lisinac and Candellaro as middle-blockers and Grebennikov in the libero role.
Kioene Padova fields Travica as setter, Torres in the opposite role, Cirovic and Louati as spikers, Volpato and Polo as middle-blockers, Danani De la Fuente in the libero role. The start of the match is in favour of the hosts: Torres and Louati leads the Patavini to 1-4 already, which forces Lorenzetti to immediately ask for a time-out. This proves to be a very clever choice since yellow-blues find the draw on 5-5 already thanks to Kovacevic (spike and ace) and Lisinac (another ace) and then take the lead (8-6). Padova isn’t passive tough and replies with its Puerto Rican opposite and its French spiker (11-12). The fight becomes characterized by the service phase and a new shot of Lisinac from the 9-meters line takes Trento to +2 (16-1, time out asked by Baldovin), another ace of Vettori (18-16) repels a new attempt of comeback of the Patavini. The final part of the match is very balanced (20-19, 22-21) but still the home team manages to keep it under its control until 25-23, thanks to the side-out efficiency of Russell.
The second set starts in the name of uncertainty with Trento trying to accelerating with Kovacevic (6-4) and Padova which immediately reach its opponent (6-6). The hosts disunite after having found the draw and start making a lot of mistakes in attack phase favouring a new yellow-blue sprint (10-7 and 13-9) led by Vettori. The Emiliano opposite leads his team to a maximum advantage with a block versus Volpato (16-11) and forces the hosts to ask for a time-out. The road for 2-0 is a downhill slide (19-14, 23-15) since the home team starts working very good also in block phase (25-18).
Itas Trentino starts the third set on the wings of enthusiasm as well (6-4 and 9-6) led by the Serbian couple Lisinac-Kocavevic. Uros rules in block phase as well, often stopping Torres (13-9) and Kioene starts to give up in reception as well (16-11, 19-12). Lorenzetti fields Cavuto in exchange for Russell and yellow-blues gets fast to 3-0 (25-16) with two points of Oreste himself.

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