Civitanova Marche (Macerata), 02 February 2022

Cucine Lube Civitanova-Itas Trentino 3-2, the match report

Itas Trentino returns to the Eurosuole Forum a hundred days after the victory of the Itaian Supercoppa 2021 and does so with the same sextet that won the final 3-1 with Monza: Sbertoli directing, Lavia opposite spikes, Kaziyski and Michieletto hitter spikers, Podrascanin and Lisinac middle blockers, Zenger libero. La Cucine Lube responds with De Cecco setter, Zaytsev opposite spikes, Lucarelli and Yant in the gang, Simon and Anzani middle blockers, Balaso libero. The start is all Marche’s brand: Zaytsev (attack and ace) pushes forward on 2-5, forcing Lorenzetti to stop the game. Michieletto and Kaziyski took care of the recovery to build the tie at 6 but Lucarelli then made another break (8-12). Trento evened the scores on 12-12 and then put the arrow with the Lisinac block on Yant (16-15). With Sbertoli at the serving the stage of break point Gialloblù is exalted, thanks to the blocks of Kaziyski and the attacks of Michieletto (19-15); the guests only need to carefully check the ball changer to take home the first set already on 25-20, thanks to the continuity of Lavia’s attack.
Civitanova tried to react at the start of the second half, powering up (0-4); Lorenzetti’s timeout is providential, because on the second half it was Italy’s Trentino tied at 7-7. Cucine Lube wavered (9-8) but then placed a new break (10-14) hoisted forward by Zaytsev between aces and rebuilt attacks (12-16). The Gialloblù don’t give up and with Michieletto they reach (16-18), but then they have to give up definitively (18-22 and 20-25) at the moment when the percentage of their 4th places drop.
The playgame of Cucine Lube continues until the 3-5 of the third set, then after the time out of Lorenzetti the guests revive with the hints of Michieletto (attack and ace) and Kaziyski (7-7 and then 9-7). The marchigians get nervous and Trento takes advantage of this to move fast on +5 (13-9) thanks to Kaziyski’s attacks. The final of the set is all guests brand (18-13, 22-16 and 25-17), with the Trentino line-up not conceding anything anymore and travels fast towards 2-1 exploiting the netting streak of Lisinac and Podrascanin.
In the fourth set the balance lasts until 9-9, then Civitanova plays with Simon at the service (9-11) and spreads into the middle stage serving  better and better with Yant and Zaytsev (10-14 and 11-16). Lorenzetti changed his line-up (within Pinali and Cavuto) and found some signs of recovery (15-19) with Sbertoli who also made himself heard at the serving. Cavuto becomes unstoppable and throws his team back in the footsteps of his opponents (18-19), before Simon breaks out again from the nine-metre line (20-23), effectively handing the game over to the tie break, which comes on 22-25.
The fifth set is very tight; Zaytsev draws the first real advantage of the whole period over 6-8, which is immediately reversed in 9-8 for Trento thanks to Lavia’s lead (block and attack). Cucine Lube accelerates again, creating a new lead (11-13), which Zaytsev still holds tight (13-15).

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