Final 3° /4° Place Game 1 Play Off SuperLega Credem Banca:
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza – Allianz Milano 3-0 (25-17, 25-16, 25-22)
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza: Brizard 2, Santos De Souza 10, Simon 11, Romanò 15, Leal 13, Caneschi 7, Scanferla (L), Recine 0, Gironi 0. N.E. Hoffer, Basic, Alonso, De Weijer, Cester. All. Botti. Allianz Milano: Porro 0, Ishikawa 7, Loser 9, Patry 10, Mergarejo Hernandez 6, Piano 6, Vitelli 0, Pesaresi (L), Bonacchi 0, Fusaro 0. N.E. Colombo, Ebadipour, Lawrence. All. Piazza. ARBITRI: Cerra, Cesare. NOTE – durata set: 23′, 24′, 36′; tot: 83′. Spettatori: 1.822. MVP: Romanò.
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza puffs up its chest against Allianz Milano and in less than an hour and a half of play wins Game 1 of the Final 3rd / 4th Place Credem Banca, best of five games series. The first step towards the Champions League next season is for the red and whites who are good at cornering Milan from the very first exchanges. Two sets dominated with a Romanò on the shields (88% and 60% in attack) and a lot of effectiveness from the nine-metre line, as well as a good block attempt. Then, in the third set, a burning start from Piacenza (5-0). The set seems to be going downhill (10-5 and 18-10), but Milan’s reaction arrives and capitalizes on some empty passes by the hosts and impacts at 21. Piacenza shakes up, posts a 4-1 run, topped off with two consecutive blocks, and wins the first round. Simon closes with 71% in attack and five blocks placed, Caneschi with 71% in the offensive and Lucarelli with 73% positivity.
MVP: Yuri Romanò (Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza)
SPECTATORS: 1,822
Massimo Botti (coach Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza): “I was curious to see how the team would react after the match in Trento, I must say that I saw a good response, but let’s not forget that this is only the first match. In Milan we will face a very different team, which demonstrated its value towards the end of the third set and we know very well that winning there is never easy, these Play Offs have made it clear. We played good volleyball, we can do better in the counterattack, we didn’t make the best use of some opportunities”.
Roberto Piazza (Coach Allianz Milano): “It was one of the many matches at the start of the Play Offs: Game 1 with Perugia, Game 1 with Civitanova and now Game 1 with Piacenza. It almost seems that preparing the games from the beginning costs us sacrifice, we like to put them back together. Only that giving the home advantage is already something important, plus giving Piacenza spirit doesn’t seem the case in this final period. Have they done extraordinary things in the service? Perhaps, certainly in some moments, Lucarelli, for example, guessed an important strand in the third act, but then Mergarejo also guessed it in the finale of the same set, managing to put it back together. We lacked something in our normal phases, i.e. in defense, in transition, there we have to be a little more cynical. I expect a totally different race on Wednesday, if only in terms of approach; then we will see what he will say. Our fans will certainly be our seventh man on the pitch and they have always shown it.”
Final 3°/4° Play Off Game 1 Finale 3° Posto Credem Banca
Mercoledì 3 maggio 2023, ore 20.30
Allianz Milano – Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza
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