Objective continuity. After the brilliant victory against Verona, Gioiella Prisma Taranto is called to a cartel match against the hosts, direct competitors in the race for salvation, on Sunday at 6 pm at the Kioene Arena in Padua.
Padova has only two points less in the standings and in the last few days there have been repeated overtaking and counter-overtaking, but neither of them has managed to get a few more points to be able to truly detach the other. Not to mention that on the last day Siena too, at -4, obtained an important victory which allowed it to stay in the wake.
In the first leg Stefani’s 25 points and a renewed Gargiulo weren’t enough to win the second home win. The rossoblù then moved forward by two sets and demonstrated an extraordinary volley for over an hour of play. Then the comeback of Padua, pushed by Petkovic and Tagahashi, with the victory of the Venetians in the fifth set.
In fact, Kioene will probably be one of the biggest obstacles to overcome in a match full of meanings: in fact, on the field, she has already shown that she is tenacious and determined, a team capable of playing hard-fought matches even with double faces.
Padova, coached by Mr. Cuttini, has a good diagonal formed by the playmaker Saitta and the Serbian opposite Petkovic who grounded 15 hot balls in the last match. It also boasts a battery of really effective spikers such as the Japanese Ran Takahashi, great protagonist of the world championship, the Bulgarian spiker Asparhuov, the young Gardini, the central players Canella, Crosato and Volpato, fruit of the Padua youth nursery, and the German free Zenger. On the bench there is also a setter of the caliber of Zoppellari, equipped with a poisonous serve and a balanced directing.
At Taranto after the good victory over Verona, they are working hard with enthusiasm trying to recover all the players in the best possible way in order to be able to approach this great appointment on Sunday with intensity.
