Perugia, 25 February 2024
SuperLega, the challenge at the top smiles on Perugia
The top clash in the penultimate round of the SuperLega Credem Banca 2023/24 regular season smiles on home team Sir Susa Vim Perugia, forcing Itas Trentino to deal with its second defeat in the championship. This evening, the Italian champions gave way 1-3 to the hosts, who, spurred on by the almost 5,000 spectators present at PalaBarton, managed to interrupt the yellow-blue’s streak of eleven consecutive victories, which had lasted since 10 December (knockout in Modena).
The four-set setback, irrelevant in terms of the classification (already won by Trento with two rounds in advance), nevertheless offered important signs of pugnacity from the yellow-blue team, who, Despite having to do without their starting opposite number Rychlicki (excellently replaced by Nelli - the team's best scorer with 16 points and 56% at the net, with a block and an ace), they contested the opening set to the end, held their own in the second set, and won the third set (which they always led) thanks in part to Lavia's fine performance (14 points with 48%). In the fourth set, also in anticipation of the imminent return match of the Champions League quarter-finals (Thursday in Trento with Berlin), coach Fabio Soli gave space to all the players. In spite of the 17-25 final, Cavuto and Magalini proved to be valid alternatives to the starting place-4 pair.
Today's round allowed Itas Trentino to know with certainty the opponent to challenge in the quarter-finals of the Play Off Scudetto, which will start on Wednesday 6 March. The defence of the title won last 17 May 2023 will begin with a best-of-five match against Modena in the first round of the final draw, as had already happened in the years 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2014.
Below is the scoreboard of the match of the twenty-first day of the regular season of SuperLega Credem Banca 2023/24 played this evening at PalaBarton in Perugia.
Sir Susa Vim Perugia-Itas Trentino 3-1
(27-25, 25-20, 22-25, 25-17)
SIR SUSA VIM: Flavio Gualberto 7, Ben Tara 26, Plotnytskyi 17, Russo 9, Giannelli 2, Semeniuk 7, Colaci (L); Leon 8, Held. N.e. Candellaro, Herrera, Toscani (L), Solè, Ropret. coach. Angelo Lorenzetti.
ITAS TRENTINO: Lavia 14, Kozamernik 5, Nelli 16, Michieletto 12, Podrascanin 4, Sbertoli 1, Laurenzano (L); Magalini 3, D'Heer 1, Pace (L), Cavuto 4, Berger. N.e. Rychlicki and Bernardis. coach. Fabio Soli.
REFEREE: Curto of Gorizia and Puecher of Rubano (Padua).
SET LENGTH: 34', 28', 27', 25'; tot 1h 54'.
NOTES: 4,918 spectators, takings not announced. Sir Susa Vim: 11 blocks, 5 ace, 17 serve errors, 8 action errors, 59% attack, 47% (21%) reception. Itas Trentino: 6 blocks, 4 ace, 18 serve errors, 5 action errors, 47% attack, 40% (12%) reception. Mvp Ben Tara.
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