The last opportunity to see Allianz Milan at work in its Allianz Cloud in 2024 is a European opportunity, which arrives tomorrow, Wednesday 18 December (7.30 pm) when the Cev Champions League returns as a protagonist. The team of Roberto Piazza hosts the Austrians of Innsbruck after the spectacular tie-break in the last outing, the one at home in Busto Arsizio, which ended with the victory of the Poles of Zawiercie, the Milanese immediately want to make up for it to secure the second place in the Pool C and possibly return to threaten the first position in the group, currently occupied by Russell’s Aluron Warta, taking advantage of the positive wave deriving from the championship victory against Gioiella Prisma Taranto. The ranking currently sees (at the halfway point) the Poles at 8 points, Allianz Milano at 6, Roeselare at 3 and Innsbruck at 1.
Innsbruck is still unbeaten this season in national tournaments, 11 wins out of as many matches in the AVL, with the 3-1 success UVC Holding Graz secured the Austrian Cup final. We remind you that the company founded in 1997 has won the last two championships (12 overall successes).
On the bench is coach Lorenzo Tubertini already at the helm of Modena, Vibo, Latina, Cisterna, Siena, Montpellier, Narbonne and now Innsbruck. The Tyrolean starting 6+1 includes giant Estonian setter Roberto Viiber, 205 centimetres, who did very well four years ago in Cantù. The opposite is the young American Kyle Hobus (19 points in the semi-final of the Austrian Cup), 24 years old and 205 centimetres, in his first European experience with the Polish Przemysław Kupka ready to take over.
