It wasn’t enough to play one of the best sets of the season. It wasn’t enough to put in a strong performance, declining, but still strong. The ranking in Cuneo hasn’t moved and we need one of those stellar performances at home – which the boys have accustomed us to – to get back to celebrating. The penultimate place in the standings begins to burn and the twelfth first leg brings with it another prohibitive clash which for Macerata has a single objective: to reverse the recent trend of defeats to find a victory which, also considering the value of the next opponent, would be literally gold.
Prata leads the standings thanks to the eight victories achieved out of the eleven matches played. Coach Mario di Pietro is leading a team with absolute confidence that they will fight for promotion all the way, a roster that features very talented young people: Gamba, Terpin, Alberini and Benedicenti are just some of the names who will plausibly be on the pitch for Pordenone. Macerata-Prata is one of those matches for strong hearts, to be played without pressure to fully express all the potential that the team has already shown it has.
Having gotten over the disappointment of the latest defeats, the red and whites are working hard in the gym to iron out those technical insecurities that have tipped the scales in favor of their opponents in recent matches. Stefano Ferri, spiker, helped us clarify what will be important to score points against Tinet.
