Trento, 29 August 2020

Eighth week of preparation concluded with a 3-1 victory against Piacenza

Itas Trentino concludes the eighth week of preparation by winning for the third time in the pre-season. After the victories against Verona (Wednesday) and Milan (Friday), the yellow-blue team this afternoon won 3-1 against Piacenza in the unofficial test match played at the BLM Group Arena during normal training hours. The session together with the renewed Emilian team, which arrived in Trento without one of its strongest players (the opposite Grozer), allowed Angelo Lorenzetti to gather further valuable information in view of the next two weeks of work. Fifteen days after the official debut (Sunday 13 September at home against Civitanova - first round of the Supercoppa semifinal), his team has already shown interesting qualities in attack and on the block, but can still grow a lot on other qualities. Today's game highlighted the serve more than any other fundamental: 14 aces scored (4 by Lisinac and 3 by Giannelli) against just seventeen errors. The incisiveness from the nine-meter line made the difference in the first set, the only one fought point to point. At this time Podrascanin showed excellent qualities. His final attack (attack in the first half and winning block from 23-23 to 25-23) allowed him and the team to win the set. The team won easly also the second and third set, in the fourth the swirl of changes proposed by the two technicians then rewarded Gas Sales. In addition to the Serbian middle-blocker who scored 10 points with 80% in the first half and two blocks on the day of his thirty-third birthday), the usual Nimir scored 13 with 57%, and very positive was also the performance of Lucarelli.

Below the report of the training played this afternoon at the BLM Group Arena in Trento.

Itas Trentino-Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza 3-1
(25-23, 25-17, 25-13, 22-25)
ITAS TRENTINO: Lucarelli 9, Lisinac 8, Abdel-Aziz 13, Kooy 7, Podrascanin 10, Giannelli 4, Rossini (L); Michieletto 5, Courtesy 2, Argenta 4, Sperotto 1, Sosa Sierra 3, De Angelis (L). Herdsman Angelo Lorenzetti.
GAS SALES BLUENERGY: Hierrezuelo 4, Clevenot 13, Polo 7, Antonov 6, Russell 9, Candellaro 4, Scanferla (L); Fanuli (L), Tondo 5, Botto 2, Izzo 4. N.e. Shaw. Herdsman Andrea Gardini.
SET DURATION: 27 ', 24', 24 ', 21'; tot 1h and 36 '.
NOTES: Itas Trentino: 7 blocks, 14 aces, 17 serve mistaskes, 4 action miskates, 57% in attack, 54% (16%) in reception. Gas Sales Bluenergy: 5 blocks, 4 aces, 18 serve mistakes, 12 action mistakes, 47% in attack, 45% (27%) in reception.

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