Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza will be busy on Sunday 24 March (8.30 pm) at the Allianz Cloud in Milan to face Allianz Milano in Game 4 of the Scudetto Play Off Quarter Finals of the Credem Banca SuperLega championship. It is the first match ball available to Brizard and his teammates given that the series, in the best of five games, sees them ahead 2-1. Defeat at the tie break for the red and whites in Game 1, 3-1 victory in Game 2 and then a new 3-2 victory in Game 3.
Challenge number nineteen is coming against the Milanese team. There are eighteen 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. This season the two teams have already faced each other six times.
The balance is in favor of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza which has won thirteen 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, three times in the Scudetto Play Offs with two victories for Piacenza and one for Milan, twice in the 5th Place Play Offs with one victory for each side, once in the Italian Cup with a victory for Milan and three times in the 3rd Place Play Offs with as many victories for Piacenza .
The match with the highest score between the two teams was the last one played: Game 3 of the Scudetto Play Off Quarter Finals when Piacenza prevailed at the PalabancaSport at the tie break (25-22, 23-25, 17-25, 31-29, 15-12) and the match recorded 224 points overall. And it was the seventh time that a match between the two teams ended in a tie break.
As for the “hardest” set, however, we always talk about the last match played: Game 3 of the Scudetto Play Off Quarter Finals, the fourth set was won by Piacenza 31-29. Same score seen in the 2022-2023 season, third day back when Milan won at home in the first set 31-29 and then won the match 3-1. The easiest partial is also this season, Game 2 of the Scudetto Play Off Quarter Finals, in Milan Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza prevailed in the fourth set 25-14. Same score already seen in the 2020-2021 season, fourth day of the 5th Place Play Offs, when at the PalabancaSport Milano won the third set 25-14.
