RESULTS AND MATCH INFO
SPARKLING MILANO – PRISMA TARANTO 0-3 (16-25, 22-25, 21-25)
SPARKLING MILANO: Vicini (L), Millar 7, Samica 7, Cortina (L), Mattera, Martino 6, Rosalba 2, Kadziewicz 4, Travica 2, Gardner 14, Giombini 1. Non entrati Nikic, Spairani. All. Ricci Daniele.
PRISMA TARANTO: Latelli (L), Rak 10, Patriarca 6, Castellano 8, Nuti 1, Vulin 5, Shumov, Ardu, Vissotto Neves 26. Non entrati Nagy, Durante, Lima Martins Idi. All. Totire Michele.
ARBITRI: Giampiero Perri, Maurizio Giani.
NOTE – durata set: 23′, 29′, 29′; tot: 81′.
MILANO – Still without a coach but with a great Vissotto (MVP with 26 points) Prisma Taranto gets its first 3 points beating a not so together Sparkling in Milan.
Taranto finished with 56% in attack, dominated the blocks (9 against 3 from the home team) and a more concrete serving. The match has been won by its setter’s inventions though (Nuti).The first set starts quite evenly but coach Daniele Ricci calls a Time Out on 5-10 after Rak’s 2 aces. It ends 16-25 without too many problems for Prisma also due to Sparkling’s various mistakes.
Taranro dominates the second set even though Milano manages to catch up to 22-24 but thanks to Vissotto they go to 2-0. Milano tries to react during the third set but does not get anywhere. It’s 21-25 at the end thanks to Travica’s wrong serve and Taranto’s successful attack.
Daniele Ricci (Sparkling Milano): “We have been inefficient at blocking and we have had a poor percentage in attack, they served really well which made it difficult for us to receive. I do not believe this team is as bad as the result but it can grow quite a lot, I am talking about Martino and Samica especially. Having worked together for only 4 days has not helped at all.”
Giuseppe Patriarca (Prisma Taranto): “We knew we were facing a team that is still buidling given the Americans have only arrived a few days ago, just as well as some of the players still busy with their national teams, that is why we thought we were going to get a positive result. We are very happy, our aim this year is to entertain the audience and our supporters today gave us a good push. Technically I must highlight Vissotto’s performance and te team’s good reception that allowed us a better attack”.
ACQUA PARADISO GABECA MONTICHIARI – ANDREOLI LATINA 3-0 (25-20, 25-19, 25-22)
ACQUA PARADISO GABECA MONTICHIARI: Sala 9, Popp 9, Veres 10, Howard 9, Ahmed 1, De Cecco 1, Gavotto 18, Manià (L). Non entrati Bojovic, Tiberti, Forni, Ananiev. All. Velasco Julio.
ANDREOLI LATINA: Zaytsev, Tomassetti 1, Bendandi, Moretti, Cardona 4, Scuderi, Salmon 12, Zanuto Iorio 8, Messana (L), Garcia Pires Ribeiro 3, Alves Bernardo 15. Non entrati Barbareschi. All. Gulinelli Flavio.
ARBITRI: Paolo Lavorenti, Gianni Bartolini.
NOTE – Spettatori 2800, incasso 7100, durata set: 25′, 27′, 26′; tot: 78′.
MONTICHIARI (BS) – Before the start of the match Acqua Paradiso received 2 prizes for the 2006-2007 season: one as best supporters of the Serie A1 TIM and one to Simone Tiberti for being the best server of the last season.
The first set sees the teams on an even battle but Montichiari wins the set 25-20 helped by a wild captain and a great De Cecco.
Acqua Paradiso dominates the second set despite a little loss of concentration on 21-11 and closes on 25-19. Great performance from the two setters that allowed a good attack. (27% posit. Acqua Paradiso; 35% posit. Andreoli).
Latina seems to have reached some kind of balance at the beginning of the third set and goes to 10-9 but Montichiari cames back and wins 25-22 even though the opponents always stay right behind them.
Best player: Mauro Gavotto.
Maikel Cardona (Andreoli Latina): “We made to many mistakes serving, did not play much in the middle plus they were very well placed with their blocks. They played really well and took advantage of our mistakes and weaknesses”.
Marcus Popp (Acqua Paradiso Gabeca): “It was extremely important to get the 3 points today. We played well even though Latina fought till the end, we managed to be stronger through the 3 sets.
BRE BANCA LANNUTTI CUNEO: Wijsmans 15, Parodi 10, Gonzalez 2, Fortunato 3, Vergnaghi (L), Lasko 12, Rosso, Muraguti Yared, Felizardo 9. Non entrati Ariaudo, Curti, Abbadi. All. Prandi Silvano.
ITAS DIATEC TRENTINO: Kaziyski 10, Birarelli 4, Jeroncic, Della Lunga 1, Grbic 6, Stoyanov, Nikolov 11, Mlyakov, Winiarski 4, Bari (L), Piscopo 3. Non entrati Segnalini, Bednaruk. All. Stoychev Radostin.
ARBITRI: Fabrizio Padoan, Luca Sobrero.
NOTE – Spettatori 2400, incasso 7600, durata set: 28′, 25′, 23′; tot: 76′.
CUNEO – Pre Banca Lannuti starts its 19th Serie A1 TIM season in the best possible way beating Itas Diatec Trentino 3-0.
Both teams start with a different line up from what they announced with Parodi as a young spiker for Cuneo and Birarelli as a middle blocker for Itas Diatec.
Bre Banca Lannutti starts well with the captain’s first 2 aces of the season and after the opponents reaction and catch up it is down to the Cuban setter Gonzalez to close the first set with a great block on Kaziysky.
Cuneo wins the second set with a young Parodi who sticks out for its precision and determination.
Cuneo takes advantage of its positive wave and gains the third set with a super Wijsmans who manages a series of aces while Trento goes down.
MVP Simone Parodi.
Silvano Prandi (Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo): “Serving is an art that does not require a compact team so it makes it important through the initial phases. I am happy about how Parodi dealt with it changing from short to strong and how Wijsmans and Felizardo started with a strong serve straight away obtaining great results”.
Radostin Stoychev (Itas Diatec Trentino): “With Wijsmans, Lasko and Parodi on such good form and so aggressive we found it hard to win, our blocks did not work either. We were certainly penalised by the few days spent together even though we should not use it as an excuse. Cuneo was the strongest team tonight”.
ANTONVENETA PADOVA – M. ROMA VOLLEY 3-2 (23-25, 21-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-11)
ANTONVENETA PADOVA: Garghella (L), De Togni 12, Olli, Esko 2, Platenik 20, Perazzolo 19, Diaz Mayorca 19, Bontje 14, De Marchi. Non entrati Quarti, Tovo, Bellini. All. Bagnoli Bruno.
M. ROMA VOLLEY: Henno (L), Savani 14, Coscione, Tofoli, Marshall 5, Molteni 4, Hernandez, Kooistra 12, Miljkovic 27, Semenzato 9. Non entrati Giretto, Romero. All. Serniotti Roberto. ARBITRI: Roberto Locatelli, Paolo Barbero.
NOTE – Spettatori 1800, incasso 4500, durata set: 27′, 27′, 26′, 27′, 16′; tot: 123′.
PADOVA – Antonveneta Padova wins its first match beating a M. Roma Volley tha managed to be caught up despite winning the first two sets.
No Mastrangelo for Mister Serniotti and Marshall who only played the third set due to an injury.
The first two sets are basically the same with break against break but a better concentrated M. Roma Volley wins them both 23-25 and 21-25.
The third set sees Antonveneta as the leader and wins 25-23.
Same result in the fourth set that sees 3 consecutive blocks by De Togni being the turning point for Padova.
A tie break full of emotion. Padova is ahead from the beginning with Roma breathing on their neck. Antonveneta wins 15-11 in the end.
MVP Rob Bontje
Bruno Bagnoli (Antonveneta Padova): “I am very satisfied with our performance especially Platenik e De Togni while Bontje confirmed the performance he showed during the friendly matches”.
Roberto Serniotti (M. Roma Volley): ” On 2-0 the match was open but we threw it away. The TIM Supercup match did not affect this performance because we trained better than usual this week. We need to start again without panicking”.
RPA-LUIGIBACCHI.IT PERUGIA – COPRA PIACENZA 3-1 (25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 25-17)
RPA-LUIGIBACCHI.IT PERUGIA: Kovacevic, Serafini, Pochini (L), Sintini 2, Kromm 13, Di Franco 6, Nemec 10, Pippi (L), Vujevic 12, Stokr 25. Non entrati Tuerlinckx, Proper, Braga. All. Dall’olio Francesco.
COPRA PIACENZA: Rodriguez 2, Cozzi 1, Meoni 1, Boninfante, Santos Dutra (L), Zlatanov 19, Simeonov 11, Bravo 4, Gromadowski 3, Bovolenta 13, Bjelica 8. Non entrati Granvorka. All. Lorenzetti Angelo.
ARBITRI: Pantaleo Coppola, Marcello Cammera.
NOTE – Spettatori 1800, incasso 4700, durata set: 28′, 28′, 26′, 23′; tot: 105′.
PERUGIA – Perugia beats Piacenza 3-1 and starts in the best possible way its sixth season in A1. It was the debut, the challange between Dall’Olio and its ex team and the first of a terrible cycle.
But RPA – LuigiBacchi.it won playing a great match. The key: Blocking.
Perugia manages 17 in just 3 sets. Nemec alone closes 8.
After 2 sets given away with a double 25-21, Copra Piacenza reacts, thanks to an enlightened …. by Marco Meoni and Perugia goes to the fourth set.
La RPA-LuigiBacchi.it is awake this time and takes over the match till the last ball and wins 25-17.
Francesco Dall’Olio: “It was a difficult match, full of tension and expectations and as a start I would say we took advantage of all the chances we had. But let’s keep grounded”.
Marco Meoni: “We expected Perugia to play like that, but we also expected a bit more from us. Negative attack but now we need to react in a positive way and go back on court with a different and more aggressive attitude”.
