Trento, 06 October 2020

SuperLega, already back on the pitch for the third round

SuperLega Credem Banca 2020/21 already back on the pitch for the third round of the regular season, which will be played during the week. On this occasion, Itas Trentino will play at the Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche for the big match on Wednesday 7 October. The kickoff is at 20.30: live on RAI Sport + and Radio Dolomiti.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO After the Adige derby on Sunday evening, the gialloblù formation has already the occasion to move on and try to get back on the run for the championship, competing against one of the main favourites for the final victory the three points. To be the best for the appointment, Giannelli and teammates are back to work in the Monday afternoon and have undergone a technical session this morning as well, before leaving for Marche. “We know well the value of Civitanova, but after the loss against Verona, our first goal must be to focus on ourselves, without negativity – explained the coach Angelo Lorenzetti, presenting the appointment - . The strengthening of a new team goes through many moments, good and bad. We need to play without negativity, trying to improve and doing that with a specific approach for the appointment”.
The gialloblù coach has to do without the spiker Michieletto (returning in Italy only on Monday), but can count on the other twelve players of the team to try to win in Marche, which has never happened for seven years. The most recent win for Trentino Volley in Marche was on 18 February 2018, when the matches were still at the Fonte Scodella in Macerata. The one on Wednesday will be the 852 official match for the Club of via Trener, the 460 away, where until now it has won 284 times.
THE OPPONENTS Two wins in SuperLega have allowed Cucine Lube to immediately forget the loss against Perugia in the Supercoppa 2020 Final, suffered at the tie break the last 25 September in Verona. The team of Marche has immediately resumed winning, thanks to the 3-0 success against NBV achieved only three days later on the same field and with the 3-2 home success against Ravenna won on Sunday in the match played behind closed doors. A possibility, the one to play without an audience, which could be confirmed also on this occasion. At the Eurosuole Forum, where it hasn't lost since January 16 (2-3 against Milano), the team of Ferdinando De Giorgi will face Itas Trentino. It will not know if there will be an audience, but has the guarantee to have in excellent shape players like Juantorena (MVP against Consar) and Leal, as well as Simon. The addition of the new setter De Cecco is already perfected.
PRECEDENTS Cucine Lube is the opponent faced several times by Trentino Volley: there are 75 official matches in its history. The estimates are in favour of the team of Marche with 42-33, especially thanks to the twenty-one wins in the last twenty-four matches. With the win by 3-2 on last 13 September (first leg of Supercoppa played in Trento), Itas Trentino has stopped a negative streak, which against Marche lasted six matches and, temporally, one year and a half. Civitanova has immediately taken revenge, winning with the same score the second leg on 20 September. Moreover, the tie break was the most frequent result in the history of the confrontation between the two teams: 30 times, including the last precedents in Marche (home victory on 8 March and 20 September). At the Eurosuole Forum Trento has never won: thirteen defeats in as many previous ones (sixteen, if we also take into account three Supercoppa matches played against Perugia and Modena between 2017 and 2019).
THE REFEREES The match will be arbitrated by Simone Santi (from Città di Castello, Perugia - in Serie A from 1994 and international Fivb from 2011) and Luca Saltalippi (from Torgiano - Perugia, in Serie A from 2011), both at the second seasonal direction in SuperLega. The last precedent for Santi with Trentino Volley was Civitanova-Trento (3-2, the last 8 March), while for Saltalippi, the most recent match was on 2 February: gialloblù win in four sets in Piacenza.
RADIO, INTERNET AND TV The match will be a global media event, having contemporary broadcasts live on tv, radio, and Internet. It will be broadcast live on RAI Sport +, channel present on both digital terrestrial platform (number 57 in HD, 58 in sd) and the satellite platform of Sky at number 227, with commentary of Maurizio Colantoni and Andrea Lucchetta; the images will be shared also on Internet in video-audio streaming thanks to the RaiPlay app. There will be live and full coverage from Radio Dolomiti, media partner of Trentino Volley, at 20.30. All the frequencies to tune into the regional network are on the website www.radiodolomiti.com, where you can listen to the commentary live streaming as well, accessing at the “On Air” section. In tv, the full match will be broadcast on Saturday 10 October at 21 on RTTR, tv partner of Trentino Volley. On Internet, the point-by-point updates will be made by the Lega Pallavolo Serie A website (www.legavolley.it) and by www.trentinovolley.it and they will be always active on the gialloblù Social Network (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook, www.trentinovolley.it/instagram e www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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