Gi Group Monza – Biosì Indexa Sora 3-1 (17-25, 25-17, 25-16, 25-21) – Gi Group Monza: Shoji 6, Dzavoronok 16, Buti 6, Finger 21, Langlois 2, Beretta 10, Rizzo (L), Terpin 7, Hirsch 0, Brunetti (L), Walsh 0. N.E. Arasomwan, Barone, Botto. All. Falasca. Biosì Indexa Sora: Seganov 4, Nielsen 11, Caneschi 5, Petkovic 22, Rosso 11, Mattei 6, Santucci (L), Mauti 0, Penning 1, Fey 2. N.E. Lucarelli, Marrazzo, Duncan-Thibault. All. Barbiero. ARBITRI: Sobrero, Boris. NOTE – Spettatori: 1272. Durata set: 23′, 25′, 36′, 27′; tot: 111′. MVP: Dzavoronok (Gi Group Monza)
Gi Group Team Monza continues the positive streak at Candy Arena. Miguel Angel Falasca’s team, after the home win in Del Monte Italian Cup Eight Finals over Latina, trailed for the 3-1 win over Biosì Indexa Sora in Unipolsai Superleague 1st Round. Monza played without italian national team spiker and Gi Group captain Iacopo Botto (troubles with back spasms in the warm up), but in his place Jernej Terpin and Donovan Dzavoronok stepped up, helping gi Group to win this game. Terpin socred 7 points, and Mvp Dzavoronok took on his shoulders the team in the crunch time, scoring 16 points with 3 aces. After the clear win in first set, 25-17, thanks to a great performance in the serve for Seganov and Petkovic, Coach Mario Barbiero’s team struggled alot in second and third set, losing clearly both the sets 25-17 and 25-16, fighting back in fourth, but without be able to contain the offensive power and down the net (5 blocks for middle blocker Matteo Piano) of Gi Group, who won also fourth 25-21 and took home the first three points of the season.
MVP: Donovan Dzavoronok (Gi Group Monza)
Miguel Àngel Falasca (Gi Group Monza): “We were mentally strong on today. the team reacted after a bad first set, where we struggled alot in reception. With Terpin and Brunetti we improved in reception, and the rest, when you receive good, comes by far. It was bad to play woithout Botto, especially few minutes before the start of the game, but we are built to face every type of emergency, as we showed on today. Let’s continue this way, thinking about wednesday, with another crucial game”.
Mattia Rosso (Biosì Indexa Sora): “Too bad, we weren’t able to keep our first set’s level of play. Monza was good, profited of all our problems reading in the best way the game. they improved in reception in first set, they are able to adjust their play during the game. We are a young team, we need to find our identity”.
