On Saturday 28 October Emma Villas Siena returns to play a championship match, and will do so again at the PalaParenti in Santa Croce sull’Arno. The match will start at 6pm.
It is the third day of the championship, the Sienese opponent will be Abba Pineto. The Abruzzo team started the A2 tournament very well, managing to win the two matches at the beginning of the season. The first was in Santa Croce sull’Arno, against Kemas Lamipel (1-3) before winning the second match of the tournament in a tiebreak, at home against Brescia. The two victories allow Pineto to currently be third in the standings with 5 points already achieved. Siena is in fifth position with 4 points.
It will be a challenge between exes, on both sides. Stefano Trillini, who played in Pineto in the 2020-2021 season, and Sebastiano Milan, who was a great protagonist last season with the Abruzzo team with whom he won the Italian Cup (and was voted best player of the event) and also the Serie A3 Super Cup.
Two former players also wear the Pineto shirt: the opposite Williams Padura Diaz, in Siena in the 2016-2017 season when the Sienese won the Serie A2 Italian Cup in Casalecchio di Reno, and the libero Alessandro Sorgente, who in the Emma Villas played in the 2021-2022 season.
Looking at the statistics, it emerges that Pineto fields the eleventh best scorer in the championship: the Argentinian with a Portuguese passport Felipe Benavidez, born in 1997, who has scored 34 points so far. On the other hand, the Abruzzese have substance in the block from the German central defender, with Croatian nationality, Kruno Nikacevic, who in the 9 sets played up to this point has made 9 winning blocks: therefore one per set.
As regards the serve, Riccardo Copelli for Siena and Gianluca Loglisci for Pineto scored 9 aces in the first two matches played.
At the end of the second championship match, the libero and captain of Emma Villas Siena, Federico Bonami, commented on the match played against Tinet Prata of Pordenone as follows: “We made a greater number of inaccuracies than usual – were his words. – The match could have ended earlier, but instead we managed to win the second and fourth sets. So I think it’s a point earned for us. Then, as we know, the tiebreak is always a lottery, all it takes is a few inaccuracies and the set runs away. I believe that this match can serve as a lesson for us for the near future and for the championship.
