“These are in or out games and you go out on the court to try to win, knowing that your opponents are there too. Modena is a team that we respect and that is very, very dangerous in these matches because it has great champions who have played in thousands of matches like this and yesterday was difficult. We did well to start off on the right step from the first ball and we did well to maintain a good intensity throughout the match. Maintaining continuity was important. There are obviously margins on things we know well, in the next few days and against Monza we will try to grow further and improve our things. The Final Four in Bologna? It will certainly be very tough, but now let’s think about Sunday and the match against Monza. It will be a very high level match against a team that has high numbers and is playing really well.”
Thus the Perugia setter Simone Giannelli after last night’s success of Sir Susa Vim Perugia over Valsa Group Modena in the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup which opened the doors of the Final Four to the Block Devils.
A full and deserved success for coach Lorenzetti’s men, capable of technically and mentally interpreting a challenge without appeal in the best possible way and of expressing a continuous game especially in the sideout with the PalaBarton public (also last night 3200 attendees at Pian di Massiano) who made his contribution by encouraging the boys from the first to the last point.
It will therefore be the Final Four for Perugia on 27 and 28 January at the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno with Milan as the opponent in the semi-final.
The staff and players will have time and opportunity to think about the Italian Cup, now we have to immediately dive back into the championship. Team already at work at PalaBarton this afternoon because on Sunday at Pian di Massiano, starting at 6.15 pm, the attacking Mint Vero Volley Monza arrives, another team qualified for the two days in Bologna after Wednesday’s success in the quarter-finals against Civitanova .
“Monza is a tough team, when we won the first leg against them I was convinced that we had achieved a great result,” says coach Angelo Lorenzetti. “We face a team that has very good numbers and a setter who makes them travel at a high pace. Sunday will be a battle. It’s clear that we need to make up for some situations a little, in these two days we will work calmly and we will focus everything on giving our best in the match.”
