Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza dives back into the championship: on Sunday 5 January 2025 they will be engaged in Taranto (3.30 pm live on Volleyballworld.tv and Sportpiacenza.it) where they will face Gioiella Prisma Taranto on the fourth return day of the SuperLega Credem Banca championship.

Challenge number nine is coming against the Apulian team. There are eight 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 six matches while Taranto won two.

The two teams faced each other seven times in the regular season with five 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.

This season, in the first leg, at the PalabancaSport Piacenza beat the Apulians 3-1 (29-31, 25-23, 25-21, 25-18).

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.

As for the “hardest” sets, however, we always talk about last season: on the ninth day of the second leg, the fourth set was won by Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza 29-27 but Taranto won the match.

The easiest partial is dated the 2021-2022 season, ninth matchday of the first leg, in Piacenza Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza prevailed in the third set 25-15 and then also won the match 3-0.