Middle Blocker Davide Candellaro on the eve: «I consider Reggio Emilia a stronger team than what their position in the standings suggests. I expect that, like all opponents, they too will fight against us without sparing themselves, even risking a little more to get the best possible result».
Thanks to the point acquired in the big external match played early on Saturday evening at the Pala “Intred” in Bergamo, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia secured the first solitary place at the “halfway” of the first part of the season.
A match with an uncertain and fluctuating trend, which saw the Giallorossi solid and concrete in the incandescent final of the first and second fractions (24–26/23–25), but unable to deliver the blow of the definitive KO, while the team from Bergamo she improved in all fundamentals, managing to get back into the match, winning the subsequent third and fourth sets and sending her fans into raptures, who no longer expected to see the fifth and decisive set. Coach Douglas’ team attempted a couple of breaks in the decisive fraction (4–5, 6–8, 8–10), but the Orobics remained more lucid in the decisive moment of the match to forfeit a vitally important victory for the continuation of the season that after the first two partials seemed pure utopia.
