Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza will be engaged on Sunday 30 April 2023 (6.00 pm) at the PalabancaSport to face Allianz Milano in Game 1 of the 3rd / 4th Place Final: the winner of the series will play the Cev Champions League next season, the loser will play the Cev Volleyball Cup.
Challenge number ten the one coming up against the Milanese team. There are nine precedents between the two teams in Regular Season and Play Off 5th Place. They have never faced each other in the Scudetto Play Offs.
The balance is in favor of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza which won six matches while Milan won three: seven times the two teams met in the regular season with five victories for the red and whites and two for the meneghini, twice in the Play Off 5th place with one victory for each side. This season Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza won both matches played in the Regular Season.
The match with the highest score between the two teams is precisely the one played this season: eighth first leg when Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza prevailed at home in Milan 3-2 (18-25, 25-21, 25- 23, 22-25, 13-15) and the game recorded 212 points overall. And it was the second time that a match between the two teams ended in a tie break, the previous occasion dates back to the 2020-2021 season, eleventh day of return, Piacenza won at PalabancaSport.
As for the “most fought” set, however, we are talking about the 2021-2022 season: third day of the return, the first set went to the Meneghini 31-29. The easiest partial is dated the 2020-2021 season, fourth day of the Play Offs 5th Place, at PalabancaSport Milano won in the third set 25-14. And in the fourth he won 25-15.
