While the top teams are back in Europe, there will be an interesting league game this Friday, on which it would be difficult to make any prediction. Beaten in straight sets in Latina in the last round, Monza will try to bounce back at home against Padova. The later will try to make the double this season over Padova as they had won on a sweep at home. Each set had been tight and spectacular as both sides left it all out on the floor. But Baldovin’s men have lost some of their brilliance since, being only 12th after the recent loss against Civitanova.
SuperLega UnipolSai round 20
Friday 20 January at 8.30pm
Gi Group Monza – Kioene Padova Live on RAI Sport 1
Live streaming on www.raisport.rai.it
Saturday 21 January at 8.30pm
Diatec Trentino – Bunge Ravenna Live on Lega Volley Channel
Sunday 22 January at 6pm
Azimut Modena – Sir Safety Conad Perugia Live on RAI Sport 1
Live streaming on www.raisport.rai.it
Exprivia Molfetta – Top Volley Latina Live on Lega Volley Channel
Calzedonia Verona – Revivre Milano Live on Lega Volley Channel
LPR Piacenza – Biosì Indexa Sora Live on Lega Volley Channel
Cucine Lube Civitanova – Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia Live on Lega Volley Channel
League table
Cucine Lube Civitanova 50, Sir Safety Conad Perugia 46, Diatec Trentino 44, Azimut Modena 43, Calzedonia Verona 37, LPR Piacenza 30, Gi Group Monza 28, Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia 24, Exprivia Molfetta 20, Bunge Ravenna 20, Top Volley Latina 18, Kioene Padova 14, Revivre Milano 13, Biosì Indexa Sora 12
Gi Group Monza – Kioene Padova
PAST ENCOUNTERS: 12 (8-4 Padova)
Christian Fromm (Gi Group Monza): “We’re extremely motivated. We have trained well this week, we analysed carefully what went wrong against Trento and Latina. We’ll need fighting spirit to stop a well-organised team like Padova but we’re keen to get going, we’ll give it all. We’ll be home and want to prove we’re better than what was seen in Latina. I’d say we have to build on our serve because we’re all excellent servers, and then the block-dig area, which did not work too well in recent games but we know we can do better ».
Stephen Maar (Kioene Padova): “We showed what we were made of against Civitanova. We had our physical problems of late, which did not help, but I think we just have to focus on training as well as we can. We need to take one game at a time, starting with Monza tomorrow. It won’t be easy, we’ll need the same determination seen last Sunday ».
