On Sunday at 8pm at PalaMazzola the Ionic players will face Cisterna Volley in a very important moment which opens the first of 6 matches which will be considered as 6 finals, in order to ensure safety as soon as possible, and possibly try to end the season in the best possible way .
Against Cisterna Volley the match is even more heartfelt in order to make up for the tie break that was mockingly missed in the first round, and because the team is only 8 points above the rossoblù, so on paper it is an affordable match given the potential of the two teams.
Gioiella Prisma was defeated in the tie break in Cisterna di Latina in November (25-27, 20-25, 25-18, 25-13, 17-15) after starting with the lead by winning the first two sets, with concrete solutions of Gutierrez and Lanza, managing to stop Faure and Ramon with good coordination on the block and in defense. Then the game changed, with Cisterna managing to read the Ionic game and annihilate all the Gioiella Prisma attackers. Despite several changes and several additions by coach Andriani, the team’s helmsman at the time, the team was unable to react and it reached the tie break where once again the Ionian team who started ahead gave in at the end, thus losing the opportunity for victory and of precious points up for grabs.
The team led by Falasca counts on the diagonal formed by the expert director Baranowicz who took over mid-season from Saitta, who was present in the first leg clash, with the strong Theo Faure opposite, Efe Bayram and the Spaniard Jordi Ramon at the back, Daniele Mazzone in the center ex Siena and Modena, and the Serbian Aleksandar Nedeljkovic with Alessandro Piccinelli libero. The team is going through a particularly positive moment with the latest home victory against Piacenza, it will therefore be a tough nut to crack, because the objective for the Lazio team is now to compete for an available place in the play offs together with Modena, who has just changed the coach (Giuliani who took over Petrella).
