Emma Villas Siena has reached the playoff semi-finals. He did it at the end of a beautiful and exciting match played on Sunday afternoon at the San Filippo sports center in Brescia against a Consoli Sferc team that once again demonstrated its excellent qualities.
It was certainly a fun and exciting match that was played in Lombardy, and which after 2 hours and 17 minutes resulted in Siena’s victory and Emma Villas’ qualification to the semi-finals. The Tuscans are waiting to know the team they will have to face in the next round. In fact, in the playoff quarter-final found in this part of the scoreboard, Cuneo went on to win in Porto Viro, taking the series to game 3: the match in this case ended with a score of 1-3. The Piedmontese benefited from 26 points from Jensen (who finished the match with 62% in attack), 13 from Volpato and 12 from Andreopoulos.
Game 3 will be played on Monday evening between Cuneo and Porto Viro. Whoever wins the match will face Siena in the semifinals.
And the team that wins that match will decide when Emma Villas Siena will play at home in the semi-final. If Cuneo wins, game 1 of the semi-final will be played in Piedmont on Thursday 11 April, game 2 will be in Siena on Sunday 14 April and the possible game 3 would be in Cuneo on Wednesday 17 April.
If instead the Sienese opponent in the semi-final is Porto Viro then Emma Villas will play match 1 and also the possible match 3 at the PalaEstra. In that case, race 1 will be in Siena on Thursday 11 April, race 2 in Porto Viro on Sunday 14 April and the possible race 3 in Siena on Wednesday 17 April.
On the other side of the scoreboard Grottazzolina, already qualified for the playoff semi-final having won the A2 series regular season, awaits the winner of the quarter-final between Ravenna and Prata di Pordenone. The two teams are at 1-1 in the series, match 3 will be played on Sunday in Ravenna which will decide the semi-finalist.
After the team’s success in Brescia, the President of Emma Villas Siena Giammarco Bisogno commented on the victory as follows: “With tonight’s victory we prepare to face another of the A2 playoff semi-finals (it’s the fourth time in our history). I want to say a few words for a group that I don’t think I’ve ever had since I’ve been president of Emma Villas. Such a humble and silent group, with no one posing as a star, always united and never tamed, who won incredible sets and matches in which anyone would have given up and they instead never gave up.
