Civitanova Marche (Macerata), 27 April 2022

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

The match report. The starting six does not present any changes compared to the previous four matches: Itas Trentino lines up on the court with Sbertoli as setter, Lavia, Kaziyski and Michieletto at net, Lisinac and Podrascanin at the centre and Zenger as libero. Cucine Lube Civitanova replies with De Cecco as setter, Zaytsen as opposite spiker, Yant and Lucarelli as wing spikers, Simon and Anzani as middle-blockers and Balaso as libero.
The best impact on the match is the one of the yellow-blue team, that with Lisinac and Kaziyski, quickly escapes (3-1 and 7-3), confirming the +4 even later on thanks to the points scored by the captain (11-7). After a time-out by Blengini, its team changes gear with Lucarelli and quickly catches up (13-14), taking advantages of difficulties at net by the guest team.
The host team speeds things up at service and starts leading for the first time with 16-17 thanks to Kovar, then Simon’s ace confirm the advantage (20-21). The final of the partial is very tight (23-23) and without any break. Trento undoes three consecutive set points to the opponents at the hand of Kaziyski and scores the third set point in its favour (29-27) with a block by Lisinac on Zaytsev.
The point-to-point fight continues in the second set (5-3 and then 9-9), before that a block by Anzani on Michieletto and a mistake by Kaziyski give the double advantage (12-14). The time out by Lorenzetti does not clear the team’s mind, because at the start it is Yant the one to regulate the gaps of the team from the Marche (13-16 ad 14-19), which speeds thing up at service and quickly finds the tie at 21-25, despite a small reaction of pride by Lorenzetti’s team in the final moment of the set.
Itas Trentino lifts its head at the start of the third set with two great points by Podrascanin (attack and block) and the solidity at net by Kaziyski (6-2). Lisinac with a winning block helps his teammates. Cucine Lube gets nervous, starts making lots of mistakes and Trento takes advantage of it to escape (11-5). In the central phase, the yellow-blue team scores a lot (18-11) even because Zaytsev often directs out the balls that arrive at him. 2-1 for the guest team arrives with 25-21 with the usual Kaziyski to seal the advantage.
Cucine Lube reopens the match in the fourth set, taking back the rains of the game with service and attack: in few minutes the starting 1-5 transforms into 6-12. the yellow-blue team suffers in reception, they take a break and the host team flies towards the tie-break (6-17, 9-20 and 15-25) with Lorenzetti that lines up lots of the players in the bench to let the regulars take a breath.
In the tie-break, Pinali stays in the game in place of Lavia, but they cannot dictate the rythm (1-3 and 6-8). The yellow-blue team goes up to 9-10, then it is Simon the one that makes the difference in attack and at net (9-12) and the one to seal the advantage that decides the match and the series, closed by an ace scored by the middle-blocker (11-15).

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