Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza is back as a protagonist at PalabancaSport after two consecutive away matches: on Saturday 19 October (8.30pm live on Rai Sport, Volleyballworld.tv and Sportpiacenza.it) they will face Gioiella Prisma Taranto in the first match of the fourth first leg of the SuperLega Credem Banca championship.
Challenge number eight is coming against the Apulian team. There are seven precedents between the two teams in Regular Season and Play Off 5th Place and the balance is in favor of Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza which won five matches while Taranto won two.
The two teams faced each other six times in the regular season with four victories for the red and whites and two for the Apulians. Only once have they faced each other in the 5th Place Play Offs, in the 2021-2022 season, second day, and it was Piacenza who won in Puglia.
Last season in the ninth first leg Piacenza won in Taranto 3-1 (19-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-16) while in the return match at PalabancaSport the Apulians won on tie break (25-23, 21- 25, 25-21, 27-29, 15-13).
The match with the highest score between the two teams dates back to the ninth return day of last season when Taranto beat Piacenza 3-2 (25-23, 21-25, 25-21, 27-29, 15-13 ) and the match recorded 224 points overall.
