Trento, 29 March 2021

Play Off, some notes and curiosities about gialloblù after match 1 of semifinal

Here’s some notes and curiosities registered after 1st match of semifinal of Play Off SuperLega Credem Banca 2021, won 3-2 by Itas Trentino on Cucine Lube Civitanova’s home field.

DESTROYED THE MYTH AT EUROSUOLE FORUM. Thanks to the result achieved Sunday night, Itas managed to end one of the longest negative experiences. The victory 3-2 of match 1 is the first one of Club gialloblù at Eurosuole Forum; the first out of 17 matches played there (14 against Cucine Lube, 3 matches during two Final Four of Supercoppa, 2017 and 2019, against Perugia and Modena). The first match ever played there was on 1st March 2015, a match of regular season won by Lube (recovering form 1-2 to 3-2), at tie break 15-12. Same thing that occurred last Sunday, but this time the winner was Itas. Last victory for  Trentino Volley was on 10th february 2013, as Lube still used to play at Fontescodella in Macerata.

AT LEAST ONE, AS ALWAYS The victory achieved on Sunday confirmed a positive tradition of Trentino Volley during semifinals Play Off Scudetto Every time the team has taken part to the competition (13 times), it has always managed to win at least a match.  Even when it did not managed to play the Finals (in 2006, 2016, 2018 and 2019), it has always won atr least a match.

GIALLOBLU’ ONLY UNBEATABLE TEAM OF THE MATCH. Itas is the only match that hasn’t ever been defeated during Play Off Scudetto 2021. Indeed, until Sunday the other unbeatable team was Cucine Lube Civitanova (duirng the final quarters it won 2-0 in Modena); thanks to the victory at Eurosuole Forum, now only Itas has this title.

TIE BREAK. When Cucine Lube and Itas Trentino play together... It’s usual to play also the 5th match! The team played 6 times this set out of 13 matches played during the final phase of the Italian Championship; the other 5 matches were: match 2 and match 4 of semifinal 2010, single match of Final 2012, match 2 of Final 2017, match 1 and match 3 of semifinal 2019. In general, gialloblù won 4 times, biancorosse 2.

LUCARELLI. On Sunday, at Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Ricardo Lucarelli scored 23 points, achieving his personal score record during an official match with Trentino Volley. But this is not unusual for the Brazilian hitter spiker, considering he played 5 matches; also last 6th December he scored 23 points, but the report wasn’t so good (this time 68%in attack in comparison to 56% of last time). Particularly good at serve. He served 19 times, 0 mistakes, and 5 ace (thanks to one ace the team won 4th set and tie break.

WHAT A SERVE! Thanks to the 11 ace, the team managed to equal its record of matches of Semifinale Play Off. The record was registered during match 1, against Civitanova  (edition 2019, won at tie break by Lube at BLM Group Arena). The absolute record was registered during quarter finals on 19th April 2006, 20 ace in Modena-Trento 2-3- match 3 of quarter finals.

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