Emma Villas Siena resumed its weekly training today in view of the next championship day. The blue and whites will be busy in Cuneo for a match that will be valid for the sixth day of the return round. The match will be played at the Cuneo sports hall starting from 6 pm.
The ranking is clear, and sees the Piedmontese in fifth place with 32 points. A good 7 points more than Siena, which is eighth with 25 points and which above all is now four points away from seventh position, which is the last good place to reach the playoffs and is currently occupied by Pineto with 29 points.
Sunday’s home defeat against Macerata widened these distances; In fact, Pineto managed to win away to Fano. A success by three sets to one which allowed the Abruzzo team to gain three very important points for the rankings.
Cuneo, the Sienese team’s next opponent, comes from three consecutive victories in the championship: three matches that gave the Piedmontese 8 points in the standings. Ma Acqua San Bernardo won by three sets to one in Porto Viro on the third day of the return leg, then won by three sets to one at home against Fano and last day they won away in a tiebreak in Reggio Emilia. Cuneo has the expert setter Sottile in the control room while in place 2 the former Giulio Pinali alternates with the young 21 year old Davide Brignach, who scored 12 points in the last match. In the band the Estonian Karli Allik, former Santa Croce sull’Arno and author of 22 points in Reggio Emilia, and Felice Sette.
