Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza will be busy on Sunday 10 March (7pm live on Volleyballworld.it, Radio Sound and Sportpiacenza.it) at the Allianz Cloud in Milan to face Allianz Milano in Game 2 of the Quarter Finals Play Off Scudetto of the championship SuperLega Credem Banca.
The best of five matches are played, whoever wins the series gets a ticket to the Semi-finals, whoever loses will play the Play Offs 5th
Challenge number seventeen is coming against the Milanese team. There are sixteen precedents between the two teams in the Regular Season, Scudetto Play Off, 5th Place Play Off, Del Monte Coppa Italia SuperLega and 3rd Place Play Off.
The balance is in favor of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza which has won eleven matches while Milan has won five: nine times the two teams have faced each other in the regular season with seven victories for the red and whites and two for the Milanese, once in the Scudetto Play Offs with victory at the tie break in Milan, twice in the 5th Place Play Offs with a victory for each side, once in the Italian Cup with a victory in Milan and three times in the 3rd Place Play Offs with as many victories in Piacenza. This season the two teams have met four times: twice in the Regular Season with victories by Piacenza, once in the Italian Cup with a victory by Milan and once in Game 1 of the Quarter Finals of the Scudetto Play Offs with a victory for the Milanese team.
The match with the highest score between the two teams is precisely the one played this season: Quarter Final of the Italian Cup when Milan prevailed at PalabancaSport at the tie break (16-25, 25-20, 21-25, 25-22 , 20-22) and the match recorded 221 points overall. And it was the fifth time that a match between the two teams ended in a tie break.
As regards the “most contested” set, however, we are talking about the 2021-2022 season: third day back, the first partial went to the Milanese team 31-29. The easiest partial dates back to the 2020-2021 season, the fourth day of the Play Offs. 5th place, at PalabancaSport Milano won the third set 25-14. And in the fourth they won 25-15.
