Countdown for the Regular Season big match between Cucine Lube Civitanova and Itas Trentino. Saturday 21 January (6 pm) the Italian champions will challenge the vice world and European champions at the Eurosuole Forum in anticipation of the 5th return day. Paired on the lowest step of the podium with 26 points, but with the red and whites having their noses ahead thanks to one more victory, the two teams will fight to hook Modena into second place, engaged the following day in their headquarters against the leaders Perugia .
The best way to approach the match number 90 between red and white and yellow and blue is to relive the emotions of the first leg match, played a few days before Halloween night and won by Civitanova at the last gasp with a creepy comeback at the BLM Group Arena. After an impalpable start by the Marche sextet, at the mercy of the hosts for 53 minutes (25-17, 25-20), Chicco Blengini’s men got back up with the decisive additions of Gabi Garcia Fernandez (16 points at the end of the match) and of Alex Nikolov (19 seals), author of a very intense test. La Lube managed to raise the level by fighting on equal terms and bringing home the third and fourth sets with great clarity (22-25, 30-32) to then prevail at the tie break (13-15). An exploit that arrived after 2 hours and 33 minutes of sports battle between two very active teams both in attack and defense.
