Trento, 20 October 2022

SuperLega, the 5th turn preview excites and puts on a schow

The atmosphere at the BLM Group Arena and the home-crowd support make Itas Trentino feel better, although it is still recovering, by helping it to earn a precious point in the rankings, even if the team had to deal with the third consecutive defeat of the championship. Tonight, in front of more than 2.700 fans, the yellow-blue team dragged the Italian Champions of Cucine Lube Civitanova to the tie break, and closed with just a two-points gap after two and a half hours match, which gave excitement and plot twists until the end of the game.
The match was played in this date, because in the original scheduled one, both teams will be entertained in Cagliari for the Final Four of Del Monte® Supercoppa 2022, and it showed the home-team starting at full speed thanks to the block (19 winning, five right from Lavia and Podrascanin) and the serve, fundamentals that excited a lot Trentino audience. After scoring 2-0, Lorenzetti’s team suffered the opponent team’s come back, who where very good at turning the tide by taking advantage of benched players (Nikolov 19, Gabi Garcia 16), but anyway, the yellow-blue team showed that it can fight even against a high-valued opponent. Depalma’s action (Sbertoli’s sub as setter) was absolutely positive, thanks to a better and better feeling with Lavia (best scorer with 32 points) and Michieletto (22). These are the good basis to start from in view of the next match on Sunday, always at the BLM Group Arena against Cisterna.

Below is the scoreboard of the advance of the fifth day of the regular season of SuperLega Credem Banca 2022/23 played this evening at the BLM Group Arena.

Itas Trentino-Cucine Lube Civitanova 2-3
(25-17, 25-20, 22-25, 30-32, 13-15)
ITAS TRENTINO: Michieletto 22, Podrascanin 9, Kaziyski 12, Lavia 32, Lisinac 7, Depalma 3, Laurenzano (L); Džavoronok 2, Cavuto, Nelli, D'Heer. N.e. Pace, Berger, Bernardis.  Trainer. Angelo Lorenzetti.
CUCINE LUBE: Chinenyeze 14, De Cecco 4, Bottolo 10, Anzani 5, Zaytsev 5, Yant 5, Balaso (L); Nikolov 19, Gabi Garcia 16, D'Amico, Gottardo, Diamantini. N.e. Sottile Ambrose. Trainer. Gianlorenzo Blengini.
REFEREE: Goitre of Turin and Giardini of Verona.
SET DURATION: 26', 27', 35', 43', 22'; tot 2h 33'.
NOTES: 2,712 spectators, taking  24,584 euros. Itas Trentino: 19 blocks, 8 aces, 18 hitting errors, 8 action errors, 41% offense, 44% (21%) reception. Cucine Lube: 13 blocks, 7 aces, 15 hitting errors, 13 action errors, 38% offense, 44% (16%) reception. Mvp De Cecco.

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