Trento, 21 December 2019

SuperLega, final match of the going round at BLM Group Arena on Sunday

SuperLega Credem Banca 2019/20 will be over this weekend: the going round of regular season ends with the matches scheduled between today and Sunday. While the other teams will play the thirteenth round, Itas Trentino will play against Cucine Lube Civitanova at BLM Group Arena on December 22nd to recover the match originally scheduled for December 1st and then postponed in order to allow the the team from Marche to play in the Club World Cup (won). The beginning of the match is scheduled at 6.00 p.m: live on Radio Dolomiti and Lega Volley Channel.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO. After two 3-0 victories achieved in the last five days, the yellow-blue team stands in front of its audience to play one of the most important match. There will be four thousand people cheering on Giannelli and his teammates. The team will try to focus on the field factor to obtain an important result, but also to reach one of the first four places in the standings at the end of the going round. “Civitanova is a team that is playing at a very high pace in this period - explained the coach Angelo Lorenzetti presenting the match -. We know what playing after winning the Club World Cup means: the victory gives enthusiasm and confidence. There is no room for error during this match because a team as Cucine Lube makes us pay every single imperfection. We must continue to follow the path of improvement, as happened in the last few weeks, and be ready to correctly understand the type of match that will await us”.
The Lube Cucine trainer can count on the whole roster in view of the match, with the possibility to choose who puts in attack. Trentino Volley will finish the preparation for the eighth home match of the season with an afternoon training scheduled for today and tomorrow morning at BLM Group Arena. The yellow-blue team will play for its 830th official match, 382nd home match and will try to win for its 580th time.
COPPA ITALIA 2020, THE QUARTER-FINAL DRAW WILL BE DEFINED ON SUNDAY EVENING The last day of the regular season going round will define the combinations of the quarterfinals of Del Monte Coppa Italia 2020. The teams that will occupy the first eight positions in the ranking will take part in the first knock-off round (scheduled for 23 January in the home of the winner) of the maximum national trophy. Only Cucine Lube is already sure of its position (first place), while only on Sunday evening it will be possible to know the actual opponent of Trentino Volley. The combinations of results of the last round are quite numerous; Trentino Volley, currently in the fourth position will try to win in order to pass in front of the Emilians but also to protect its place in the standings.
THE OPPONENTS. Cucine Lube Civitanova, coming off several victories in the Championship and World Club Cup, will play at BLM Group Arena in great shape. The 3-1 victory obtained on Thursday in Istanbul confirmed the several alternatives that the roster offers to the coach Ferdinando De Giorgi, who for a long time will have to do without Iranian Ghafour. The last few weeks have also shown how Cucine Lube is a team capable of doing its best even away. After the last home game played against Monza on 27 November, the red-and-white team have in fact played eight away matches, winning them all. Among the most awaited players there is the Trentino volley’s former player Juantorena (12 trophies won in Trento between 2009 and 2013) and the Luxembourgian Rychlicki.
PREVIOUS MATCHES. With 68 official matches, Cucine Lube is the second opponent that Trentino Volley has faced the most in its twenty-year history. Six matches have been played in the last twelve months, including regular season matches, the Coppa Italia semi-final and the Scudetto Play Off. Cucine Lube won 36 times and Itas Trentino 32. The only recent victories of Trentino Volley are those of the 2018 Club World Cup Final (3-1 in Czestochowa) played on December 2 and Playoff semifinal game 3 on April 22 (3-1). The last game has been won by Cucine Lube: 3-0 at the Eurosuole Forum on April 25 in game 4. Lube also won eleven of the twenty-seven games played at BLM Group Arena.
REFEREES. The match will be arbitrated by Roberto Boris (from Vigevano – Pavia. Serie A since 1997 and international since 2010) and Stefano Cesare (from Rome. Serie A since 1999 and international since 2010). The last time Boris refereed a Trentino Volley match dates back to March 17 while Cesare it dates back to November 24 at PalaPanini.
RADIO, INTERNET AND TV The match will be live on Radio Dolomiti, media partner of Trentino Volley. The connections with Lazio will be made within the "Dolomiti Sport Show", 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 for the streaming video (service on payment) on “Lega Volley Channel”. On TV the full match will be broadcast on Monday 23 December 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). TICKETS AND MERCHANDISING The BLM Group Arena has already registered the "sold out" on Friday morning, so on Sunday the ticket office will be open at 4.45 pm only for the accreditation. At the same time, the entrances to the building will be open to allow the public with tickets to occupy all the stands.
Inside, behind the long stand on the north side, fans will find the yellow-blue merchandising point: a huge range of Trentino Volley items on sale, including celebratory jerseys.
"POLICURA DAY" On the occasion of the eighth internal game of the season, "Policura Day" will be celebrated; Trentino Volley and Policura will prepare a series of initiatives that will see the yellow-blue sponsor protagonist on the Match Program and on the LEDs of the building, for the occasion strongly characterized by the Policura logo. Policura also awarded the mvp prize, chosen by the jury of journalists at the end of the match.

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