Trento, 14 January 2023

SuperLega, the 15th turn will be played in Lazio on Sunday

The fifteenth turn of the SuperLega Credem Banca 2022/23 regular season, the fourth of the second round, will be played in the upcoming weekend. Itas Trentino will play on Sunday’s away match (January 15th) against Top Volley; the match’s start is scheduled for 8.30 p.m. at the Palazzetto dello Sport of Cisterna di Latina. Live on Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on the OTT Volleyball World Tv platform.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO After having conquered the important success of 2023 in Roeselare on Wednesday evening, the yellow-blue team will compete in the second away match of the week, aiming at the SuperLega’s victory to confirm its positive position in the rankings (currently at the fourth place, one point far away from the third one).
“It is a tradition that Cisterna’s match is particularly challenging, especially due to the opponent’s value – explained coach Angelo Lorenzetti while presenting this appointment - . We are fresh from the positive result conquered in the Champions League, but we are also aware that we have to turn the page, because we must not be “weak” in these regular season’s matches. In order to gain the victory against Top Volley, we need a constant performance in each fundamentals and the ability to respond to each action patiently, given that our opponent is the best block of the tournament”.
Trentino Volley will arrive in Lazio early tonight, after the morning training session at the BLM Group Arena and the train ride with all fourteen members of the shortlist. In fact, the captain Matey Kaziyski is back in the group after skipping the Belgian away match because of a modified weekly job. The match against Cisterna will be the 970th official match of Via Trener Club’s history, the 27th of the season (toll: 18 victories, 8 defeats), in which the yellow-blue team will be seeking the 324th away victory of its history, the 396th of the regular season.
THE OPPONENTS Just back from last Sunday's tie break defeat in Padua, Top Volley Cisterna, strengthened by the sixth position in the rankings with one point ahead of Milan and four behind Trento and Piacenza, awaits the visit of Itas Trentino. In order to defend the good things done so far this season (among the goals achieved  the presence in the Coppa Italia quarterfinals, then lost in three sets to Perugia, should also be highlighted), the lineup coached by Fabio Soli therefore needs to get back to influencing its ranking, securing the home turf, where so far it has won four of the seven matches played, including those with Civitanova (3-0). The Lazio player are the most prolific at block in the entire league, thanks to 137 winning blocks (2.45 per set) and to an expert like the former Itas Trentino player Zingel (how scored alone already 36 times in this fundamental, best blocker of the tournament along with Lisinac). The reference point of the game sketched out by the expert setter Baranowicz is the Croatian opposite Dirlic, currently the leading best scorers of SuperLega thanks to 268 personal points; 27 of these have been achieved precisely at block (5th place). In position 4, on the other hand, the available players are often alternated, due to very interchangeable technical characteristics between them: the German Kaliberda, the Turkish Bayram, the Czech Sedlacek and the Cuban Gutierrez.
BACKGROUND Alongside Verona, Top Volley is the sixth club faced the most times in official matches by Trentino Volley, forty-four in all. Only Civitanova (90), Modena (81), Piacenza (67), Perugia (50) and Cuneo (47) can boast more. The tally is in favor of Street Trener club with 35-9, with a streak of consecutive victories in favor of fourteen matches that for Trento ended in the very last previous one in Lazio (victory of the hosts 3-0 on March 20th, 2022 - last match of the previous regular season). At home Cisterna has been able to win more frequently: six times in twenty-two ufi matches. Among the fifteen yellow-blue’s victories achieved on Pontine soil, the most recent one is 3-1 win dated November 1st, 2020. In the first leg match, played last October 23rd at the BLM Group Arena, Lorenzetti's team won in the tie break (sets of 20-25, 25-18, 35-33, 21-25, 15-13 and Kaziyski MVP with 30 personal points).
THE REFEREES The match will be managed by Maurizio Canessa (from Bari, in the highest category since 2009) and Ubaldo Luciani (from Chiaravalle - Ancona, in the category since 2009), in their seventh and sixth SuperLega games of the season, respectively.
The last previous match with Trentino Volley for Canessa dates back to a 3-1 victory on  October 26th in Modena, while for Luciani it dates back to the 1-3 home win over Milan on November 26th .
RADIO, INTERNET AND TV 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 on the OTT platform "Volleyball World Tv" is also confirmed, the service is for a fee. For more in-depth information on the use of the same consult the site www.welcome.volleyballworld.tv/faq-it. On TV the match recap will be aired on Monday, January 16th at 9:40 p.m., on RTTR - partner TV of Trener Street’s Society. 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).

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