Trento, 19 April 2022

Play Off Scudetto, on Thursday in Civitanova Marche match 3 of semifinal

The match 3 of semifinal Play Off Scudetto SuperLega Credem Banca 2022 will be played on Thursday 21st April at Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche.
ITAS Trentino, ahead 2-0, will be back in the court of the current Italian Champions of Cucine Lube and it will try to settle differences in the first of three match ball at disposal. The starting whistle is at 20.30: live on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on OTT Volleyball World.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO “The victory on Easter Monday guaranteed us the chance to play three matches that can qualify us in the Final and it is right that we consider them just like a tie-break: two as an away-match and one at home - the coach Angelo Lorenzetti introduced this way the match - . We are sure that it isn’t useful to substitute the desire of winning against such a strong team for the idea of ending the series. So, we want to use in the court the same spirit shown in the last event at Eurosuole Forum, knowing well that there are never final verdicts until the last ball has touched the court, especially in Play Off Scudetto”.
The coach of Trento can count on the entire list of players, who have completed the training for the match this morning with technical-strategic session at BLM Group Arena before leaving again to Civitanova Marche. During this occasion, the young yellow-blue hitter-spiker Michieletto will collect his 100th presence with the shirt of the first team of Trentino Volley; Alessandro, in 99 matches played up to now (2 in 2018/19, 18 in 2019/20, 35 in 2020/21, 44 in 2021/22), has scored 924 points (1 in 2018/19, 20 in 2019/2020, 251 in 2020/21, 662 in 2021/22) for an average of 9,33 per match. The first of all was on 13th February 2019: home victory in three sets on Amriswill in a match of CEV Cup in which he also scored the last point.
SEVEN VICTORIES AND THREE DEFEATS IN THE PREVIOUS MATCHES 3 OF SEMIFINAL Trentino Volley has already played 10 times (on nineteen total participations) a match 3 of Semifinal Play Off Scudetto, winning seven times and losing only three times. The victories are related to the 3-1 in 2006 series with Treviso, 3-1 in 2009 series with Cuneo, 3-0 in 2011 series with Modena, 3-2 in 2015 serie a with Perugia, 3-1 in 2016 with Modena, 3-1 at home against Perugia in 2017 and 3-2 against Civitanova in 2019; the three defeats are related to a 0-3 at home with Lube in 2010 series, 2-3 in Perugia in 2018 and 1-3 against Civitanova in the last edition. Regarding the numbers, the one on Thursday will be the 49th official seasonal match for the yellow-blue (report 33 victories and 15 defeats), 940th official match of all the time, 130th in Play Off Scudetto, in which it has collected 77 victories, of which 25 (out of 62 matches played) won in away-game.
THE OPPONENTS Cucine Lube Civitanova, who has no more possibilities of defeat if it doesn’t want to leave the race for Scudetto that has on its shirts, will host the second match of the series at Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova, with the need to get a result and to continue nourishing hope of qualification in its fifth Final in a row. There will probably be the audience of big occasions to support the team of the Marches, which had already filled most of the galleries of the arena of the Marches.
PREVIOUS MATCHES On Thursday it will be played the 86th match between the two Societies, the sixth seasonal; the report is positive for Lube 48-38, while for the current competitive year is 3-2 for the yellow-blue, with Trento that has been the only one of the two that has avoided the court factor last 14th April. The yellow-blue success on Thursday had been particularly important, because it had been only the second obtained in 18 previous matches played with Cucine Lube at Eurosuole Forum; the first of all in three sets since the Society of the Marches moved to Civitanova Marche.
THE SERIES The semifinals, just like the final, are played to the best of five matches. On Thursday night with 2-0, ITAS Trentino gets back on the court after the 3-0 of last 14th April in the Marches (sets of 28-26, 25-20, 25-23) and 18th April at BLM Group Arena (scores of 25-20,25-21,25-23). Only in the case of Cucine Lube’s victory in Thursday 's match, the two teams will come back at BLM Group Arena for the match 4, which will be played on Sunday 24th April at 18 in Trento. If there will be the necessity of match 5, it is scheduled on Wednesday 27th April at 20.30 again in Civitanova Marche. The team that will pass the round will find in the final the winning team of Perugia-Modena (series on 1-1, tonight match 3 in Umbria).
THE REFEREES The match will be directed by the couple of Ilaria Vagni (from Perugia) and Rossella Piana (from Capri -Modena). For Vagni, it will be the 13th seasonal match in SuperLega; four of these with Trentino Volley and one right with Civitanova (on 2nd February, defeat at tie-break). For Piana, of role since 2005, this will be the 12th match of 2021/22 Championship; three of these were with Trento, the last was on 13th March (3-2 at home with Milano).
RADIO, INTERNET AND TV The match will have live coverage by Radio Dolomiti, network partner of Trentino Volley. The frequencies can be found on www.radiodolomiti.com, where there will be the live radio news also in streaming.
There will also be live streaming on the platform OTT “Volleyball World Tv” (paid service). For further information click on www.welcome.volleyballworld.to/faq-it.
The tv report will be on Friday 22nd April at 16 on RTTR - network partner of Trentino Volley.
On internet the update point-to-point will be on the site of Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it), on the site www.trentinovolley.it and also on the yellow-blue social Networks.

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