The week leading up to the Italian Cup has begun, scheduled for next Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 January, at the Unipol Arena in Bologna.
The Block Devils underwent a session in the weight room, led by athletic trainer Sebastian Carotti, and worked in groups on the taraflex with Angelo Lorenzetti and the Juventus technical staff. The focus is on Saturday’s semi-final, a match that opens the Final Four at 4.15pm with coach Rado Stoytchev’s Rana Verona.
The Bianconeri get there with the awareness of their own capabilities, and with the desire to give their best, as also demonstrated on the Eurosuole Forum pitch in the second leg of the championship last Sunday: a match which, despite the final result, put highlights many positive aspects, as underlined by the captain, Simone Giannelli, guest last night on Monday Volley, a weekly format dedicated to Sir Susa Vim Perugia.
«The first three sets were as we wanted to be on the pitch, in the sense that we did what we wanted to do, we played a good first set where we collected the opportunities we created for ourselves and indeed, some of them we didn’t even exploit all of them, so there could have been even more of a gap in the score. We also played the second set at a high level, like them. We created opportunities to win it, but we weren’t good at realizing them. It was a match that was going the way we wanted it to go. In the fourth set it wasn’t that we gave up, but we were simply no longer able to bring back the technical level that the match required because at that moment Civitanova turned up the heat.”
