Sir Safety Susa Perugia returns to the PalaBarton this afternoon.
The Block Devils are picking up “the tools of the trade” to kick off a new week of work in Pian di Massiano (today a technical and athletics session) in view of next Sunday’s home match which the black and whites will face at 3 pm: 30 the Top Volley Cisterna (pre-sale active from today on www.vivaticket.it) for the third to last day of the Superlega.
Superleague which obviously sees coach Anastasi’s formation firmly in command, who cheered for the nineteenth time in the championship on Sunday in Trento and boasts an eighteen-point lead over his closest rival.
The round that went into the archives the day before yesterday saw the Block Devils close with the highest number of blocks (13) with the green-and-gold central Flavio “best blocker” of the day with 5 points in the fundamental on an equal footing with Podrascanin. Three “scorers” of the day all with 25 points on the scoresheet, one of which was the Cuban opposite Herrera who swept the special ranking of winning services with 8 aces. Herrera’s performance is the most prolific of the season from nine meters and brings the Caribbean southpaw into the special “all time” ranking with sets at 25 points where, with at least 8 aces in a game, there are 22 other players including teammates Leon and Plotnytskyi.
From a statistical point of view, President Sirci’s team has strengthened its leadership in almost all the specialty rankings with Trento’s performance. The Block Devils are in fact first in the Superlega in the number of break points won (522), in the number of aces and aces for each set (respectively 137 and 2.01), in the offensive percentage (54.2% effectiveness), in number of winning blocks based on the sets played (2.57).
TOMORROW NIGHT THE NAME OF THE OPPONENT OF THE BLOCK DEVILS IN THE QUARTER-FINALS OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
The return matches of the Champions League playoffs will be played tomorrow, with three passes for the quarter-finals of the event up for grabs. After the round away victories in the first leg, the Polish and reigning champions of Grupa Azoty Kędzierzyn-Koźle and the Germans of VfB Friedrichshafen have the odds on their side against Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie and Tours VB respectively. In the third playoff intersection, however, the first leg between Ziraat Bank Ankara and Berlin Recycling Volleys was not played due to the terrible earthquake that hit Turkey. The Cev has therefore established that the passage of the round will be decided in a single match directly with the match starting tomorrow in the German capital which will also decide the opponent in the quarter-finals of the Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia.
