Piacenza, 16 October 2022

Gas Sales Piacenza-Itas Trentino 3-1, the match report

Match report. In the starting six there are at least two excellent absences; Itas Trentino has to do without Sbertoli therefore, Angelo Lorenzetti offers space in the role of riser to debuting Depalma, lined up diagonally to Kaziyski, with Lavia and Michieletto in the band, Podrascanin and Lisinac in the center, Laurenzano libero. The Gas Sales Bluenergy team haas to do without Leal and so coach Lorenzo Bernardi in position 4 lines up the returning Lucarelli in diagonal with Basic, with Brizard on set, Romanò opposite spiker, Simon and Caneschi middle blockers, Scanferla as libero. The start for the yellow-blue team is outstanding between blocks, defense and counterattack; in no time they go from 2-2 to 8-4 with Kaziyski and the yellow-blue team in position 3 is very effective. Bernardi calls time out and gets the desired response from his men, who with Brizard serving (also an ace) go back up to 11-9, before Lorenzetti’s interruption.
Piacenza gets tie at 11 always with the Frenchman serving, then scores the 15-17 with Lucarelli. It was Michieletto who put the score back in the balance (18-17) and then signed the new acceleration (22-20); Trento held on to the ball change and took home the first set on 25-23 thanks to a hitting error by Recine (on the court since the middle of the set).
After the swap of roles, the hosts came back with a different attitude in serving and at the block, fundamentals that allowed them to immediately take over the reins of the game (2-4 and 3-7), forcing the yellow-blue team to seek refuge in a time out. When the game started again, it was Lavia who sounded the charge and brought Itas Trentino back under (9-10), before Lucarelli was unleashed who, between attack and serve, almost single-handedly drew the new Emilian stretch (11-16). Lorenzetti interrupts the game again, but his team replays only up to 16-18 with the usual Michieletto in the lead. Then Gas Sales Bluenergy team sank the hit again with Caneschi and Romanò (16-21) and quickly took home the tie point in the sets, which came at 18-25.
In the third set, Bernardi kept Lucarelli at rest, putting Basic to the court from the start; the equilibrium held for a long time (2-2, 5-5 and 7-7), then Piacenza accelerated (7-10), but Trento did not give up, and with Kaziyski went up to 15-15 before taking the lead thanks to a Romanò error (17-16). A reception foul by Michieletto on Simon's serve gave the hosts another chance (17-19 and 19-22), and on the wings of enthusiasm they took a 2-1 lead, closing out the single-set match on 22-25, after Kaziyski had tried to reopen the game once again up to 21-23.
Itas Trentino reacted in the opening of the fourth set, convinced they at least deserved to contest the tie-break. It was Matey, who set the pace in the middle of the court (7-5 and 10-7), but his high point was unfortunately very short, as the yellow-blue made a lot of mistakes and were quickly caught up by the locals, the serve of Simon (ace), gave them more advantage (12-13, Lorenzetti's time out). Basic was ready and attack after attack, led the Emilians to +4 (14-18); when least expected, Lorenzetti's team reared its head again, reaching 21-21 thanks to Lisinac's
 blocks and Kaziyski's serve. The final rush was intense, but once again it was Gas Sales who got the better of it and closed 22-25 and 1-3.

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