Trento, 23 April 2022

Play Off Semifinal, on Sunday (at 6 p.m.) at BLM Group Arena match #4

Match 4 of the semifinal of Play-off Scudetto SuperLega Credem Banca 2022 will be played on Sunday 24th April at BLM Group Arena of Trento. For the second time in the series, Itas Trentino will play within friendly walls, searching for the third victory against Cucine Lube Civitanova that would allow the team to qualify for the final, being ahead with 2-1. Live by RAI Sport +, Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on the platform OTT Volleyball World Tv.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO The yellow-blue team is preparing to live the last home match of the series with the possibility to play for the second of three chances to achieve the access to the turn of the final board. Despite the defeat in three sets in match 3, the environment sees with optimism the event, being able to count on the field-factor once again. which has often give an added value during the entire season.
“It is a Play-Off semifinal of SuperLega and, on its own, it is a great thing. Moreover, we play for the access to the final that is something destined to few people,” said the trainer Angelo Lorenzetti while presenting the match. “Desiring to arrive to the last event of the championship thinking about winning it with few fatigue is the worst wish we could could wish for ourselves. We are aware that, how it was in the logic of the values of the two team, with match 3, a new path of the series has started between Trento and Civitanova. We want to live this further step as main characters, giving our best, playing with and for our public.”
Trentino Itas will arrive to the event with all thirteen players available and it will end its training this afternoon and on Sunday morning at BLM Group Arena. It will be the 50th seasonal match for Trentino Volley, the 941st official match of its history, the 131rst in Play-Off Scudetto (evaluation 77 won and 53 lost), where since 2011 has lost only seven times at home out of 43 matches played. In this occasion the Society of Trener will play it 51st match of a Play-Off semifinal, where the team has with 28 successes and 22 K. O.s.
TWO VICTORIES ANS SIX DEFEATS IN THE PREVIOUS MATCH 4 OF SEMIFINAL In the past, Trentino Volley has already played eight time (out of eighteen previous total participations) a match 4 of semifinal of Play-Off Scudetto, winning twice and losing six times.
The eleven success are related to 3-2 imposed at Lube’s facilities in the 2010 series and in the 2006 one against Treviso, the 1-3 at PalaPanini in the 2011 series and at PalaTrento in the 2016 against Modena, the 0-3 at PalaEvangelisti in the 2017 series against Perugia, the 0-3 at Eurosuole Forum in the 2019 series and the 0-3 at BLM Group Arena in the 2021 series once again against Civitanova.
THE OPPONENTS Cucine Lube Civitanova will go for the third time in this season to Trento with the need to conquer BLM Group Arena for the first time since last year so as to continue to hope for the qualification in its fifth consecutive final Scudetto, its eighth in total. Only one success in the facility of Fersina street could let, as a matter of fact, Blengini’s formation to continue to keep close the championship achieved on may 2021 and to bring the series back to Eurosuole Forum for the fifth and decisive match.
THE PREVIOUS MATCHES With eighty-seven official matches already played, six in this season, Lube is the opponent that Trentino Volley had faced the most. The evaluation is in favour of Cucine Lube for 49-38, especially thanks to the twenty-eight victories in the last thirty-six matches. However, the red-black team has never won during the ongoing championship at BLM Group Arena. The last success in Trentino was on April 7th 2021, on match 4 in the semifinal (3-0). During the Play-Off Scudetto, the trend is in favour of the guest team that was able to win five times in eight total matches played. In total Trentino Volley was able to win thanks to the field-factor in twenty-seven out of thirty-eight home matches played against Lube. The two most recent successes: October the 31st 2021 (3-1 in regular season) and at the beginning of this week (3-0 in match 2)
THE SERIES Itas Trentino ahead 2-1 in the series of semifinals that is played to the best of five matches, because of the double 3-0 achieved between match 1 on April 14th (partials of 28-26, 25-20, 25-23) in the Marche and match 2 on April 18th (25-20, 25-21, 25-23) at home, to which Cucine Lube responded only on Thursday evening at Eurosuole Forum with 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-17). On Sunday match 4, that could be the last one only in case of a new victory by Lorenzetti’s team. If Civitanova wins the match on April 24th, it will be necessary also a match 5 that will be played once again in Civitanova Marche on Wednesday April 27th at 8.30 p.m. The team that will win the turn will find in the final match (event this series will be to the best of five match, it will start on April 13th) the winning team between Perugia and Modena, with the Emilian team ahead with 2-1 at the moment (on Sunday match 4 will be at PalaPanini).
THE REFEREES The match will be supervised by Roberto Boris (first referee from Vigevano, Pavia) and Marco Braico, second referee from Torino. For Boris, referee in Seria A since 1997 and worldwide since 2010, it is the seventeenth seasonal match in SuperLega. Two of these were with Trentino Volley: home victory in three sets against Taranto (on February 13th) and K. O. for 3-0 in Modena on November 21st. For Braico, referee since 2003, it is the tenth seasonal match in SuperLega, none of these with Trentino Itas as main character. Braico supervised last time on October 25th 2020 (defeat at tie-break in Monza).
TV, RADIO AND THE INTERNET The match will be a global media event, having a live streaming on TV, on the radio and on the Internet. On the small screen, it will be aired by RAI Sport +, channel on the platform digitale terrestre on channel 58 with chronicles made by Maurizio Colantoni and Andrea Lucchetta.
The live update is provided by Radio Dolomiti, media partner of Trentino Volley. The frequencies to listen to the regional network are available on the website www.radiodolomiti.com, where it will also be possible to follow the radio update live on streaming.
The live on streaming video is also confirmed on the platform OTT “Volleybal World Tv”. The service is for a fee. For more information on its use, please go on www.welcome.volleyballworld.tv/faq-it.
On TV, a synthesis of the match will be aired on Monday April 25th at 9.45 p.m., on RTTR, partner TV of Trentino Volley.
On the Internet, the point-to-point updates will be supervised by Lega Pallavolo Serie A (www.legavolley.it) and www.trentinovolley.it and the Social Network of the team will always be active (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook, www.trentinovolley.it/instagram and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
MATCH NOT ON THE SUBSCRIPTION CARD For this event, BLM Group Arena will have 100% of the sits available. All the viewers must have the SUPER GREEN CERTIFICATION (green certification achieved through vaccination or recovery for the disease) and the ffp2 mask, that must be worn at all times inside the facility. The match is not foreseen in the subscription. The tickets pre-sale is active at any time on the Internet on https://trentinovolley.vivaticket.it/. The cash registers at BLM Group Arena will be open starting from Sunday at 4.30 p.m., at the same time the entrances of the facilities will be opened.

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