The Block Devils returned from France today, after last night’s blitz at Saint-Nazaire in the first Champions League away match of this season.
The victory in 3 sets over coach Fulvio Bertini’s team, valid for the second round of the group stage of the top European club competition, consolidated the top spot in Pool D for Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia with 6 full points.
Having returned to Perugia, the boys must immediately dive back into the championship because there is a double away match coming up: next Sunday at the Forum in Assago the 9th day of the first round of the regular season is scheduled, against Allianz Milano and on Sunday next, December 1st, another match away from home, on the Monza pitch. To close the tour de force another Champions League away match, on Wednesday 4 December at the Halkbank Ankara pitch.
Four consecutive away games in total, between the championship and the Champions League, for coach Angelo Lorenzetti’s boys for whom, from this perspective, saving energy and not giving up even a set is also an important aspect in the physical economy of the group, as underlined in the post match the Polish striker of Juventus, Kamil Semeniuk who last night closed the match with 12 points, 2 aces, a winning block and a 60% effectiveness in attack with no errors in 15 balls attacked:
«I always like to win matches away from home, especially if we have to make a very long trip like this, so we are very happy. It’s important that we didn’t lose a set: obviously if we look at the result it seems like it was an easy match, but that’s not the case. We have to be careful every game, and the important thing is that we were.”
