Civitanova Marche (Macerata), 20 November 2021

SuperLega, on Sunday the 77th derby of A22

At the weekend it’s played the seventh round of regular season of SuperLega Credem Banca 2021/22. On this occasion, Itas Trentino will face the fourth away game of its championship, challenging Leo Shoes PerkinElmer on Sunday 21 November at the PalaPanini in Modena. The kickoff is at 18: live on Rai Sport +, Radio Dolomiti, and live streaming on OTT Volleyball World Tv.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO Collecting nine points in the latest ten days, the yellow-blue formation is ready to face a new important test on the field of a historic rival like the Emilian one with the goal of confirming itself permanently at the top of the ranking.
“The one on Sunday in Modena is the first of many matches that in the following weeks we will play consecutively away from Trento and, for us, that must represent the start of a cycle that will give us several opportunities – said the coach of Trentino Volley Angelo Lorenzetti as presentation of the appointment - . We have to be good to collect them to show, even to ourselves, that we can do something beautiful in every circumstance, regardless of the environmental conditions. We are going to face a Modena that in all the appointments played so far has always had a good approach, pushing strongly since the start of the first set: the reason why it will be fundamental to approach the game with the right attitude and immediately be aggressive.”
The coach of Trento has to do without Marko Podrascanin (in quarantine since Thursday due to a familiar member tested positive for Covid) and will confirm D’Heer in the centre of the net and diagonally to Lisinac. The preparation for the match will be completed between the trainings of this afternoon at the BLM Group Arena and the ones on Sunday morning at the PalaPanini. This is the 902nd official match of the history of Trentino Volley, the forty-first at the PalaPanini and will see the yellow-blue Club hunting for the 169th away win in regular season, the 631st ever.
THE OPPONENTS Leo Shoes PerkinElmer waits for the visit of Itas Trentino with the need of a win that can make it place near the top of the ranking. The start of the championship of the formation coached by Andrea Giani has been characterized by three setbacks (in Monza and Civitanova, and at home with Piacenza) and by two wins (with Vibo and in Ravenna) that currently place it at the eighth place in the ranking with six points, but also with three matches less than Trento. The approach to the appointment has seen the Emilians collecting during the week the qualification to the round of 32 of Final of 2022 CEV Cup, obtained thanks to the home success by 3-0 on the Finnish of Sastamala in the second leg of the round of 64. Among the most awaited players there are surely the two most recent formers of turn like the opposite spiker Nimir (46 attendances and 841 points in his only season in Trento) and the libero Rossini, but also athletes like the setter Bruno and the spikers Leal and Ngapeth, who many times have faced Trentino Volley in important games. For the appointment, there will be the fans of the home team to cheer for it.
PREVIOUS MATCHES Modena is the second opponent that Trentino Volley challenged the most times in its twenty years of activity (the first is Lube): on Sunday it’s played the 77th official match and the report is in favour of the yellow-blue for 44-32. The most recent game was played at the PalaPanini on 27 December 2020 (win by 3-1 of Lorenzetti’s team). In the historic Emilian arena, Trentino Volley has won seventeen of thirty-six official matches played against the hosts. During the pre-championship preparation, the two formations faced each other in a joint training, played at the PalaPanini on 29 September and won by 3-1 by the hosts (25-21, 25-17, 24-26, 25-22).
THE REFEREES The match will be directed by Roberto Boris (from Pavia – in Serie A from 1997 and international from 2010) and Rocco Brancati (from Città di Castello – Perugia, in Serie A from 2015): both are at their fourth seasonal refereeing in SuperLega 2021/22. For Boris, the latest match with Trentino Volley dates back to 24 October (Final of Super Cup, won by 3-1 in Civitanova Marche against Monza), while for Brancati is referred to 12 October (home win with Verona).
TV, RADIO, AND INTERNET The match is a global event and will have a contemporary broadcast on TV, radio, and Internet. It’s going to be broadcasted on RAI Sport +, a channel present on the digital terrestrial platform (number 57 in HD, 58 in SD) with commentary by Maurizio Colantoni and Andrea Lucchetta.
The match will have a full live coverage by Radio Dolomiti, media partner of Trentino Volley. The frequencies can be found on www.radiodolomiti.com, where it will be possible to listen to the radio commentary in streaming.
There is also the live streaming on OTT "Volleyball World Tv" (paid service). For more information about the service: www.welcome.volleyballworld.tv/faq-it.
On TV, the recap of the match will be broadcasted on Monday 22 November at 22 on RTTR - tv partner of Trentino Volley.
On Internet, the point-by-point updates will be made by the website of Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it), by www.trentinovolley.it, and by the yellow-blue Social Networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook  and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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