Gazzetta award 2010/2011
On Thursday April 14, just before the start of the playoff quarter-final between Cuneo and Verona, spiker Wout Wijsmans will receive his “Gazzetta award” as he was elected as the season MVP by the prestigious daily sport paper.
Serie A1 Sustenium – Playoff quarter finals
Game 3
Three teams have the opportunity to seal their series in these quarter-final game 3: Trentino, Macerata and Cuneo. Monza and Modena are tied at 1-1. Here is the schedule and preview:
Playoff Serie A1 Sustenium – QUARTER FINAL GAME 3
Wednesday 13 April at 8.30pm
Lube Banca Marche Macerata (3) – Sisley Treviso (6)
Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza (4) – Casa Modena (5)
Thursday 14 April at 8.30pm
Itas Diatec Trentino (1) – RPA-LuigiBacchi.it San Giustino (8)
Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo (2) – Marmi Lanza Verona (7)
Playoff Serie A1 Sustenium – GAME 4 (If needed)
Saturday 16 April at 4pm
Casa Modena (5) – Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza (4)
Sunday 17 April at 6pm
(one game live at 8.30pm)
RPA-LuigiBacchi.it San Giustino (8) – Itas Diatec Trentino (1)
Marmi Lanza Verona (7) – Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo (2)
Monday 18 April at 8.30pm
Sisley Treviso (6) – Lube Banca Marche Macerata (3)
Playoff Serie A1 Sustenium – GAME 5 (if needed)
Wednesday 20 April
Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza (4) – Casa Modena (5)
Thursday 21 April at 8.30pm
Lube Banca Marche Macerata (3) – Sisley Treviso (6)
Itas Diatec Trentino (1) – RPA-LuigiBacchi.it San Giustino (8)
Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo (2) – Marmi Lanza Verona (7)
PLAYOFF SEMI-FINALS
Game 1: Sunday 24 and Monday 25 April
Game 2: Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 April
Game 3: Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May
Game 4: Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 May
Game 5: Saturday 7 and Sunday 8
PLAYOFF FINAL
Final (V-Day): Sunday 15 May in Roma (PalaLottomatica)
1ª- Itas Diatec Trentino | 2 |
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3-0 3-1 |
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8ª- RPA-LuigiBacchi.it San Giustino | 0 |
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4ª- Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza | 1 |
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3-1 0-3 |
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5ª- Casa Modena | 1 |
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2ª- Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo | 2 |
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3-0 3-2 |
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7ª- Marmi Lanza Verona | 0 |
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3ª- Lube Banca Marche Macerata | 2 |
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3-0 3-1 |
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6ª- Sisley Treviso | 0 |
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Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza – Casa Modena
(1-1)
Past encounters: 6 (3 successi Modena, 3 successi Monza Brianza)
Luca Monti (coach Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza): “We have to forget the last one, and face the next one with good spirit, hoping to win it. Modena is definitely more balanced with Casoli and Berezhko, especially in reception. We knew they would have made it hard for us on Saturday, and their sprint start got us on the back foot. In the second set, though, we got back on our feet, shame we did not convert our effort with the victory of the set. We paid the price psychologically in the third set and we gave up too easily. Tomorrow will be a different game, we want to win it, we’d like to have a chance to seal the series on Saturday in Modena”.
Daniele Bagnoli (coach Casa Modena): “Game 3 will be extremely uncertain, it will surely be an intense one. As I’ve said before, the two teams are of a similar level, you have to play well to win, very well. In the last month, the team’s progress slowed down because of the many injuries and the quality of the training consequently suffered from it. We’re putting the extra effort in now. Bruninho is getting to know the team, but it’s a day to day experience. As for our game, it’s obvious that we depend more than Monza on our serve and reception, while they have a quality dig-block. In the playoffs, the mental aspect is fundamental: knowing how to handle to difficult moment, knowing how to take advantage of the momentum, and learning to limit as much as possible the mistakes”.
Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo – Marmi Lanza Verona
(2-0)
Past encounters: 17 (12-5 Cuneo)
Hubert Henno (Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo): “Verona will play game 3 without any pressure, giving everything it has left. A playoff game is never easy and we know you can never take anything for granted, but in the end, the important is the win. In Verona, we got back on track in the tie-break after two poor sets. Now, we have rested and we prepared ourselves with determination to try to seal the series on Thursday”.
Renaud Herpe (Marmi Lanza Verona): “Despite the defeat on Sunday in game 2, we realised we could play face to face at least with the Cuneo of this period, because they’re facing difficulties too. That’s why, like we’ve done in the second part of the last game, we have to take advantage of their “weaknesses”: We will travel with this in mind, ready to give it our best shot and force game 4 in our PalaOlimpia. It would really be great for the club, fans and everyone that follows us. We have been very close to the victory, in the third and fourth set, we played excellent volleyball. In the tie-break, only a couple of plays prevented us from making it. Volkov shined on the serve and a couple of our mistakes did not allow us to seal it. We have to remember the good things done on Sunday and have another go”.
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