Trento, 20 October 2022

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

Here's the match report. For the second home game of the season, Itas Trentino has to give up on Sbertoli again (in the pits due to an abdominal injury); Lorenzetti confirms its young sub Depalma as setter, Kazyiski as opposite spiker, Lavia and Michieletto as hitter spikers, Lisinac and Podrascanin as middle blockers, Laurenzano as libero. Cucine Lube replies with De Cecco as setter, Zaytsev as opposite spiker, Yant and Bottolo as hitter spikers, Anzani e Chinenyeze as middle blockers, Balaso as libero. At the beginning, the hosts try to stand out on serve and on block, going immediately in the lead (3-1 and 7-5); with Depalma on setting (and with a direct ace) another sprint arrives (+4, 10-6), extended by the point-serve from Michieletto (12-7, time out Blengini), by Zaytsev net-error and by Podrascanin blocks on Bottolo (14-7). The guests’ coach try to batten down the hatches and insert Nikolov at place 4, but Alessandro goes on with his long series on serve, which brings about break point until 17-7. Cucine Lube tries to raise up itself (17-10), but after Lorenzetti’s time out, Trento starts agains with much more energy (21-12) and close immediately with 1-0 already at 25-17.
After the change of ends, the opponents try to react; they rise from 5-3 to 6-9 (Lorenzetti’s time out), putting Kazyiski under the spotlight. Itas Trentino replies with Podrascanin blocks and Depalma services, which upturn the situation again (10-9). The competition becomes vibrant and amazing, the two teams do not give up and they take turns leading the scoring (13-12, 14-15, 17-16). After a wonderful action, a block to Lavia’s one makes a home +2 (20-18), which becomes +3 thanks to a Kazyiski’s attack. The guests responded until 21-20, then, Lavia’s attacks secured the lead (24-20) and the subsequent 2-0 (25-20).  
The third partial resumes with the local serving cues producing the first important stretches (5-3 and 8-6). Cucine Lube tried with Bottolo and Nikolov as starters and the tie came right at nine with an ace by the former Padua.
The yellow-blue went back ahead with Lavia (11-9), but then it was Nikolov who took the lead (13-16), forcing Lorenzetti to alternate Kaziyski with Džavoronok.
The guests with Gabi Garcia on the court, however, have a different mood than before and have more and more advantages (15-20, 17-23). Itas Trentino rears its head again with Michieletto sealing a 5-0 partial (22-23), which however is not enough to catch the opponents: De Cecco's block takes the two teams to the fourth set (22-25).
After the court change, Lorenzetti confirms Džavoronok in the opposite role; the balance is constantly broken, but is often recomposed by the generosity in defense of the two teams (1-3, 5-5, 8-10). In the middle part, Lube accelerates, taking advantage of some mistakes by the yellow-blue (11-14).
Kaziyski finds the court again but misses as well (13-17), however, at the most difficult moment Trento wakes up and comes back to fight. Michieletto returns with serve and Podrascanin defends with all his strength 16-17 and then 18-18 with Lavia marking the difference in attack.
The end of the partial is at the throbbing; Bottolo brings back a new lead (18-21) that Itas Trentino nullifies (23-23) with Kaziyski and Michieletto. It goes to the advantages, where the two teams overtake each other several times (27-27 and 30-30), until Nikolov's ace that makes it 30-32 and the tie break.
The fifth set saw Itas Trentino suffer at the start the psychological backlash of the sprint defeat of the previous partial (3-6), but later still showed the will to fight; with Lisinac at the serve, the yellow-blue team got as close as minus one (7-8), then a block by Michieletto and two counterattacks by the same Alessandro led to an overtake (9-8). Cucine Lube with De Cecco immediately regains the tie-score and then shoots again with Nikolov (10-13); it is the stretch that definitively awards the match and the two points in the rankings to the guests (13-15).

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