Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza will be busy on Sunday 15 December at 8.30pm (live on Rai Sport, VBTV and Sportpiacenza.it) at the PalaPanini in Modena where they will face Valsa Group Modena in the match valid for the first day back of the SuperLega Credem Banca championship.

Derby della Via Emilia to start the second round which leads straight to the highlight of the season, the Scudetto Play Offs.

Challenge number twenty-one coming up against the Modena team. There are twenty precedents between the two teams in the Regular Season, 5th Place Play Off, Scudetto Play Off and Del Monte Coppa Italia SuperLega.

The balance is in perfect parity: ten victories for each side, the last in chronological order for Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza on the first day of the championship of this season when at the PalabancaSport the red and white team beat the Modena team 3-1 (25-18 , 21-25, 25-23, 25-23).

The two teams have faced each other eleven times in the Regular Season with seven victories for the Modena team and four for the red and whites, three times in the 5th Place Play Offs, in the 2020-2021 season with a victory for each side and last season with a victory for Piacenza , once in the 2021-2022 season in the Italian Cup with victory by Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza and five times in the 2022-2023 season in the Quarter Finals of the Play Off Scudetto with three victories for Piacenza.

The match with the highest score between the two teams dates back to the 2022-2023 season: second day of the Quarter Finals of the Scudetto Play Offs when Modena prevailed at PalabancaSport 3-2 (19-25, 25-21, 22-25 , 25-21, 15-13) and the match recorded 211 points overall.