Sir Safety Conad Perugia – Calzedonia Verona 3-1 (25-19, 26-28, 25-18, 25-22) – Sir Safety Conad Perugia: De Cecco 5, Zaytsev 12, Podrascanin 11, Atanasijevic 13, Russell 21, Anzani 7, Cesarini (L), Colaci (L), Shaw 1, Andric 9, Della Lunga 0. N.E. Berger, Siirila. All. Bernardi. Calzedonia Verona: Spirito 1, Jaeschke 5, Pajenk 5, Stern 22, Maar 3, Birarelli 6, Frigo (L), Pesaresi (L), Marretta 0, Manavinezhad 12, Mengozzi 1. N.E. Grozdanov, Djuric, Paolucci. All. Grbic. ARBITRI: Tanasi, Cappello. NOTE – durata set: 25′, 33′, 27′, 30′; tot: 115′. Spettatori: 3.332. MVP: Russell
First 2018 three points for Sir Safety Conad Perugia on the home turf at PalaEvangelisti, who defeated in four sets Calzedonia Verona. Lorenzo Bernardi’s team put on court an outstanding effort in attack, with a great Aaron Russell, Mvp of the game with 21 points and 79% in attack, a great Alexander Atanasijevic with 13 points, and a great Ivan Zaytsev with 12 points. Serbian middle blocker Marko Podrascanin with 11 points and croatian spiker Leo Andric with 9 points have been the other notable scorers for Sir Safety. On the other side of the net Nikola Grbic’s team had a good effort with Toncek Stern, 22 points for the slovenian, and with iranian Manavinezhad, 12 points for him. A funny and exciting game, four sets of great volleyball at PalaEvangelisti.
MVP: Aaron Russell (Sir Safety Conad Perugia)
Spettatori 3.332
Marko Podrascanin (Sir Safety Conad Perugia): “These are three golden points, I’m happy because we never gave up, especially in tough moments of the game, playing all the four sets as a team. Now let’s think to next game on sunday versus Piacenza”.
Stefano Mengozzi (Calzedonia Verona): “We lost a chance to show everybody we can compete versus this kind of powerhouses. We needed tow more points to reach the tie break. We will always remember our strength, we have to be confident and trust ourselves. We have to improve, match after match”.
