We take to the field for the Champions League: on the eve of the 3rd place Final for Allianz Powervolley Milano who will face the outgoing semi-finalist Gas Sales Bluenergy tomorrow evening (6:00 pm) at the Pala Banca in Piacenza.
This is the first edition of the Final for 3rd place overall in SuperLega Credem Banca: a pass to the Champions League is up for grabs. Both teams arrive at this confrontation fresh from the defeat in game 5 of the Play Off Semifinal, respectively Milan with Civitanova and Piacenza with Trento. The two clubs emerge head-on from the race for the Scudetto, but always find themselves in this series in the best of five games to hit a big target. The first act will probably be the most difficult to face in terms of mental energies to channel, with coach Piazza’s men determined to achieve victory to grab the last available access to the most important continental competition for clubs, the icing of a great season and an amazing performance in the playoffs, the result of painstaking work done so far by players and staff.
The next opponent will be Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza, on the strength of the conquest of the Del Monte® Coppa Italia, the previous seasons and the favorable field factor in Races 1, 3 and possibly in Race 5. The precedents smile at the Emilians with 6 victories compared to the 3 from Milan. This between the two teams, which have never faced each other in the Play Offs, will be the tenth confrontation. A complicated and very stimulating competition for the Milanese in many respects: first of all the stakes, which could lead the club to compete for the first time in a competition of such a high international caliber and, from the point of view of comparison with the Piacenza , Gas Sales is the only big player in the championship from whom Piano and his companions have not managed to snatch victory; in fact, in the current season Botti’s men have had the upper hand in the two matches of the Regular Season.
