With the return flight from Sicily having landed just over 48 hours earlier, it’s already time for match-2 for Monge-Gerbaudo Savigliano, who awaits Farmitalia Catania at the PalaSanGiorgio with the aim of impacting the playoff quarter-final series of Serie A3 Credem Banca, after the battle of PalaCatania, won by the Etna in a tie-break on Wednesday evening.
The challenge will be staged at 20.30 on Saturday 22 April and the hope of the white and blue club is that once again the stands of the Palazzetto dello sport in Cavallermaggiore will be full as happened just a week earlier, when 225 pushed Dutto and his teammates to a comeback against Garlasco in the round of 16.
The opponent. Waldo Kantor’s boys, former Argentine setter and best South American player of 1980, showed all their strengths in the first match in Catania: great physicality, a penetrating attack with Casaro’s heavy arm and the careful direction of the expert Fabroni (born in 1981). Even the central department, as expected, did badly, with Frumuselu decisive in delicate moments and the young Rok Jeroncic, son of that Gregor who won with Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo in 2010, also skilled at serving. Seconds in the regular season due to a season finale below expectations, however, they have every intention of trying to get to the bottom of the playoffs and, together with Abba Pineto, they are the big favorites to reach the final.
Here Monge-Gerbaudo Savigliano. Despite coming out defeated by PalaCatania, Monge-Gerbaudo honored the longest official away match in its fifty-year history in the best possible way, demonstrating in turn that it can count on a top-level roster. Coach Lorenzo Simeon hypothesizes a match similar to Wednesday’s, but with the arena factor that could affect: “We focus on what we can do better. I believe that tactically it will be a similar match, but their adaptation to our gym, which has different dimensions from the PalaCatania, will have to be evaluated “.
