Milan was defeated on a 3-0 score by Piacenza in its first friendly game of the season (25-20, 25-17, 25-17). « We all wanted to do better than that – said captain Giorgio De Togni – We knew we were up against a competitive team. It was not easy for us, we had some physical worry this week, so we could not work as we’d have liked in 6-on-6 situations. Still, we tried to put in practice the work done in the gym of late, like the block-dig department, which did not go too bad at the start of the game. But then we faded, we struggled from a physical standpoint in every funndamental ».