Afternoon training today at PalaBarton for Sir Susa Vim Perugia.
Angelo Lorenzetti and his boys have once again put their heads in the Super League box and are carefully preparing for the top-of-the-table clash, first versus second, on Sunday in Trento.
The Juventus team will train again tomorrow both in the morning and in the afternoon at Pian di Massiano, leaving on Saturday morning for Trentino where there will be great volleyball on Sunday.
The numbers of this big match say it because at the “ilT daily Arena” (this is the new name of PalaTrento) the top two of the Super League in the break phase will compete (240 break points for Perugia, 220 for Trento), the top two of Super League for efficiency (0.24 for Trento, 0.22 for Perugia) and percentage of perfection (34.1 for Trento against 31.1 for Perugia) in reception, the first and third in the Super League for percentages of attacking realizations (54.2 for Perugia against 53.0 for Trento).
To the team numbers must then be added the many individualities of the Italian champions Itas Trentino who, after seven seasons with Angelo Lorenzetti (opponent on Sunday sitting on the Perugia bench), entrusted the technical guidance to Fabio Soli. The coach is new, but the roster is consolidated and, remaining with the seven starters, features only two changes compared to last season.
The direction is always in the solid hands of the blue Sbertoli, a now veteran setter despite being born in 1998. Sbertoli knows the team perfectly and knows how to add his technical qualities (not in dribbling, but also in other fundamentals such as serving) and temperament to the dish. Diagonally one of the two new faces, the opposite Luxembourger with an Italian passport Rychlicki, who arrived in Trentino after the last two seasons in Perugia and started very strong this season as evidenced by the fourth place overall in the bomber rankings with 147 points scored. In the center the pivot is the very confirmed (and new captain) Podrascanin, another ex with four seasons under his belt in Perugia and a professor in the role both in the first half and on the block. Diagonal to Podrascanin is the return to Trento (second new face of the season) of the Slovenian Kozamernik, another international center back, very strong at the block and very dangerous with his jump flot serve. Trento’s seat four is the home of Italian national team duo Michieletto-Lavia. Two players with great technical qualities, perfectly complementary, both complete both in second line fundamentals such as reception and defense and in offensive ones such as attack and blocking.