Civitanova Marche (Macerata), 14 April 2022

Cucine Lube Civitanova-Itas Trentino, the match report

Match 1 report. Angelo Lorenzetti for this occasion has chosen the same Itas Trentino that was on the court four days ago at BLM Group Arena for the tie-break of quarter finals with Piacenza and it has Sbertoli as setter and Lavia as opposite-spiker, Kaziyski and Michieletto as hitter-spikers Lisinac and Podrascanin as middle-blockers as Zenger libero. Cucina Lube Civitanova answers back with De Cecco as setter, Zaytsev as opposite-blocker, Yant and Lucarelli as hitter-spikers (Juantorena at rest), Simon and Anzani as middle-blocker, Balaso libero. The start in favourable for Trento and is able to find 8-6 and then 10-7 with Michieletto e Lisinac (block on Zaytsev); the hosts don’t get worried and reach the tie at 11, taking advantage of De Cecco’s serves and Simon’s block. The middle phase of the set is fought point-to-point (16-16), before the yellow-blue team sprint with Lavia and Kaziyski (21-19, time out Blengini). Lucarelli and Yant build a new balance (23-23); Itas Trentino invalidates a ball set to Lube at the leads and take advantage of its third chance thanks to the error at net of Yant (28-26).
The opponents show their reaction with force at the beginning af the second set, thanks to Simon’s abilities (3-6). Trento tries to move closer again (9-10) with Lavia, but the Cuban middle-blocker speeds up again, in this case at serve (13-17). The yellow-blue waver but they don’t give up and with the Calabrian at net and Podrascanin at serve they reach an incredible tie (19-19), taking over the final, because the opponents lose the control with a sharp serve of the Serbian (24-19) and Kaziyski’s attacks. The errors of the newly recruited Kovar guaratee the outer 2-0 that comes with 25-20.
Exited by the wonderful come back in the last set, Kaziyski and teammates get off to a flying
start in the third set (4-1 and 8-3), taking advantage of the difficulties during the side-out phase of the hosts. Cucine Lube comebacks with Simon up to 8-7 and then settles account at 9. The two teams fight again point-to-point (13-13, 16-16 and 18-18) up to 23-23, when Kaziyski end the match in three sets (25-23) with a winning attack and block on Zaytsev.

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