Trento, 14 December 2020

Itas Trentino-Cucine Lube Civitanova 3-0, the match report

Match report. The starting six is not surprising, Itas Trentino only cannot count on Kooy so the players are the same that won against Modena in only 3 sets, last Wednesday: Giannelli at serve, Nimir as opposite, Michieletto and Lucarelli as hitter-spikers, Lisinac and Podrascanin as middle-blockers, Rossini as libero. While the other team’s line-up was De Cecco at serve, Rychlickias opposite, Leal and Juantorena as hitter-spikers, Anzani and Simon as middle-blockers, Balaso as libero. Juantorena begins leading the play: he scores an ace against Podrascanin  and thanks to a diagonal attack the team gets to 2-5, but Michieletto scores and it’s 5-5. From that point the match becomes a real battle and both the team keep scoring (8-8, 11-11, 14-14), Lucarelli is particularly good in attack for gialloblù team, on the other side of the net the best is Rychlicki. Giannelli scores an ace against Osmany (16-15), but after just a couple of seconds Simon scores a block against the pipe by Lucarelli (18-19, Lorenzetti calls for a time out). The rush keeps going on and Michieletto scores a point against Juantorena (20-19), followed by an ace made by Nimir against Balaso and the attack by the opposite player (22-19); gialloblù keeps the advantage gained and wins the set 25-22 (first set by Lisinac).
The team seems particularly excited and is absolutely ready for the second set; Nimir scores from the line of 9 meters and, helped by Michieletto, increases the advantage 7-3 (time-out called by De Giorgi). The advantage increases even more thanks to the action of the hitter spiker at place 4, he scores at serve (9-4); but Leal is on field and begins recover playing well and thanks to some break points (10-8), Lorenzetti calls for a time-out. 2 blocks (Michieletto against Rychlicki and Podrascanin against Juantorena) let the home team increases its advantage (16-12), the opponent team doesn’t lose the hope and Leal recovers to 19-18, then scores again helped by Kovar (on field as substitute of Osmany, 21-22). Nimir does even more at serve and in attack and improves the points: 24-22 and 25-23 (due to an error of Leal at serve).
Once Itas got 2-0 in unstoppable, Nimir is the leader and thanks to his serve the points are 7-4, then transformed into 10-5 by Michieletto and Lucarelli. Civitanova tries to react thanks to Leal’s action (13-10), but Trento is aware of the danger and the Danish opposite gives his contribution (17-12). Simon is at serve and shows his ability (also thanks to an ace 19-17, Lorenzetti calls for a time-out), but then the home team is definitely controlling the match (21-17, 23-20, 25-22).

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