Trento, 24 April 2022

Itas Trentino-Cucine Lube Civitanova 1-3, the match report

Match 4 report. Lorenzetti confirms the starting six that had always taken the court in the previous three matches of the series: Sbertoli as setter, Lavia, Kaziyski and Michieletto as hitter-spikers, Lisinac and Podrascanin as middle-blockers ans Zenger libero. Blengini does the same and lines up De Cecco as setter, Zaytsev as opposite-spiker, Yant and Lucarelli as hitter-spikers, Simon and Anzani as middle-blockers and Balaso libero. The two team start of the match at full speed (4-4, 6-6 and 10-10), they don’t save even a gramme of energy and adrenaline and they continually change the control of the moves. Simon gives the first advantage of the match with an ace (10-12), then an error in attack of Micheletto pushes the guests +3 (11-14) and force the hosts to call a time out. However, the situation doesn’t change at the restart, on the contrary it worsens considering that Lucarelli blocks two times Lavia, then change with Pinali. Itas Trentino tries to pull itself back together with Lisinac (14-17), but Yant climbs back again with another ace (16-21). The end of the set is totally in control of Cucine Lube (18-22) that changes the court with Yant ahead 0-1 with 19-25.
The second set seems to start in the same way the first had ended; Yant hits with 1-4 and Lorenzetti calls a time out. Immediately after Kaziyski gets wild and makes a set of 5-0 (6-4) almost alone. Zaytsev guides its team for the comeback, carrying out a series quick exchanges (8-8 and 10-10), at least until Anzani doesn’t attack out a first time (12-10). The double advantage lasts a moment, because then Matey sends out a pipe and the opponents built an insuperable barrier at block (13-16). The Capitan raises the points of the yellow-blue once again, helped by an error at net of Zaytsev (17-16). Lube with Kovar and Gabi Garcia in the court has more power and from 19-19 reaches 19-21 taking advantage of the difficulties at net of Michieletto. Itas Trentino gets back once again with a Lisinac’s block on Lucarelli (22-22); at the sprint the yellow-blue stop three set balls (26-26), they gain two and win the second with 29-27 with a block of Sbertoli on Lucarelli.
In the third set the opponents asserts their authority again with Simon (two attacks and a block on Kaziyski) and Zaytsev; on 3-7 Lorenzetti has ended the time outs. The yellow-blue don’t give up believing and step by step they get closer, pushed by Matey but also by the public (from 7-11 to 11-12); the tie is reaches at 13 with an error of Zaytsev, who is immediately replaced by Garcia. At the most important moment, the ball-change of the locals becomes hard again (13-16); Trento doesn’t give up and comes back at 19-19, supported by a monumental Kaziyski. It’s time for a new sprint (21-22), this time of the opponents thanks to Gabi Garcia (22-25).
The fight point-to-point starts again in the fourth set, with the two teams both taking control up to 9-9, before a block of Garcia (who stayed in the court with Kovar for Yant) for 9-11. Itas Trentino settles account at 14 with Kaziyski, but an error of Michieletto gives +2 to the opponents at 17-19. Lorenzetti stops the game and has to reply some moments later on 18-21 after an attack of Simon during a rebuilt. The additional time decides the match 4: Cucine Lube has the advantage and ends on 22-25 with a abundant diagonal of Michieletto.

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