Trento, 22 October 2022

SuperLega, another appointment at the BLM Group Arena on Sunday

The fourth round of the regular season of SuperLega Credem Banca 2022/23 is being played this weekend. After Thursday's five sets against Civitanova, Itas Trentino immediately faces another home game, facing Top Volley Cisterna in one of the three matches scheduled for Sunday 23rd October at 6 p.m. At the BLM Group Arena the kick-off is scheduled at 6 p.m.: live coverage on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on the OTT Volleyball World Tv platform.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO The yellow-blues team lineup is looking for its second win in the championship and will try to get it against a team in excellent condition like Top Volley Cisterna, still with the uncertainty about Sbertoli's actual presence. The conditions of the starting setter, who has been out for ten days due to an abdominal injury, are improving, but his potential availability will be decided after tonight's training session. "In the first four days, despite having to deal with very different results, the team has shown that it is always on the ball and that it has important temperamental qualities, even before the technical ones, to have its say in any situation" explained coach Angelo Lorenzetti presenting the appointment, he continues “We are holding on to this aspect as we approach Sunday's challenge against a top-ranked opponent like Top Volley. We'll play again in front of our supporters and we'll do everything we can to give them a victory, knowing that winning it will be anything but easy given the quality of the game that Cisterna is proposing at the start of the season. However, we have a great desire to reverse the trend and I hope that this will make the difference in our favor”.
Trentino Volley has not won since 2nd October (3-1 at home against Siena), but in the following matches it has moved up the rankings in two out of three matches, gaining four of the six points so far at the BLM Group Arena. Sunday's match will be the 948th in the yellow-blues team history, the 436th home game (a tally of 343 wins and 92 losses), and the 554th match in the regular season.
THE OPPONENTS Top Volley Cisterna comes to Trento after a perfect start in the regular season: three victories in as many matches played, nine points for their own ranking and only one set left to the opponents (the one lost last Sunday in a home game against Padova). The line-up coached by Fabio Soli immediately took advantage of the excellent harmony between setter Baranowicz and opposite spiker Dirlic (seventh bomber of the tournament with 60 points), which had already allowed them to gain access to the Play Off Scudetto 2022, but also of the positive entering of new elements such as Kaliberda, Sedlacek, Bayram (as wing) and Catania (as libero). The matches against Milan, Taranto and Padova have shown the qualities of the line-up from Lazio especially in the block fundamentals. After three match days, the Cisterna’s team is in fact the team that can boast the highest average of winning blocks per set (3), thanks mainly to high-level interpreters in this sector of the game such as the middle blocker Zingel (former Trentino Volley player, he played in Trento in the 2017/18 season, collecting 48 appearances and 202 personal points). During the week, the Lazio team was further completed with the purchase of setter Martinez (former Modica and Porto Viro in Serie A3).
BACKGROUND With Sunday's match, Top Volley Cisterna (formerly Latina Volley) takes another step ahead of Verona and takes back the fifth place in the special ranking of the clubs that have been faced in most times in official matches by Trentino Volley. There are already forty-three previous matches. Only Civitanova (98), Modena (78), Piacenza (66), Cuneo and Perugia (47), can boast more. The tally 34-9, is in favor of the Club of Trener street, with a winning streak of fourteen consecutive wins; that the Top Volley Cisterna ended in the last match, thanks to a 3-0 home win on March 20th (the last day of the regular season). To find a Top Volley Cisterna success at the BLM Group Arena, however, we have to go back as far as 13th April 2014 (1-3), in a match valid for the playoffs for the fifth place. In Trentino, the team from Top Cisterna has only won on two other occasions (out of a total of twenty-two matches played) and always in four sets: on December 1st 2002 and January 6th 2007. The most recent match played in Trento dates back to December 19th 2021: 3-0 with partials of 25-15, 25-14, 25-22 and Lavia mvp.
THE REFEREES The match will be managed by the duo formed by Gianfranco Piperata (from Bologna, in Serie A since 2012) and Andrea Puecher (from Rubano- Padova, in the highest category since 2003 and international category since 2013). The most recent meeting with Trentino Volley for Piperta is reported on November 3rd, 2021 (home defeat at the tiebreak with Padova), while for Puecher dates back to the 3-0 win over Civitanova on April 18th 2022 (game 2 of the Scudetto playoff semifinals). MEDIA The match will be reported live by Radio Dolomiti, media partner of Trentino Volley. Frequencies to listen to the regional network can be found at www.radiodolomiti.com, where it will also be possible to follow the radio report in live streaming. The live video streaming will also be available on the OTT platform "Volleyball World Tv '', the service is pay-per-view.
For further information on the use of the same consult www.welcome.volleyballworld.tv/faq-it. On TV the match recap will be aired on Monday, October 24th at 9:40 p.m., on RTTR - partner TV of Trentino Volley. Eventually, on the Internet point-to-point updates will be edited by the website of the Italian Volley League Serie A (www.legavolley.it) and by www.trentinovolley.it itself and will always be active on the yellow-blue’s team social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook, www.trentinovolley.it/instagram and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
BOX OFFICE The match is included in both types of season tickets offered for this season by Trentino Volley (full and basic). It is still possible to purchase tickets for the single match at any time on the Internet by clicking https://trentinovolley.vivaticket.it/it/event/itas-trentino-cisterna/192888. The vouchers will be also available on Sunday at the BLM Group Arena ticket offices, which will be operative starting at 4:45 p.m., the same time when the arena entrances will also open. The use of the mask is not mandatory to enter the stadium.

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