Exprivia Molfetta in eleventh place in the standings, out of the playoffs, will need to reach at least the Playoffs for 5th place. Will not be an easy job, because Molfetta will play versus Cucine Lube Civitanova, a team already sure of first place and waiting only to know which team will face them in the quarterfinals. Lube won 6 times in 7 games versus Molfetta.
PREVIOUS MATCHES: 7 (1 Molfetta, 6 Civitanova)
FORMER PLAYERS: Pier Paolo Partenio Civitanova 2003-2012 (Youth League) and 2012-2013 (4/12/12), Giulio Sabbi Civitanova 2014-2015 2015-2016 (1/12/15), Marco Vitelli Civitanova 2013-2016 (15/12/13), Davide Candellaro Molfetta 2014-2016, Luigi Randazzo Molfetta 2015-2016.
RECORDS:
In Regular Season: Klemen Cebuly – 3 attacks to 1000, Dragan Stankovic – 1 block to 300 (Cucine Lube Civitanova)
In Championship: Osmany Juantorena – 5 attacks to 2000, Dragan Stankovic – 4 blocks to 400 (Cucine Lube Civitanova); Joao Rafael De Barros Ferreira – 9 attacks to 500, Giulio Sabbi – one game to 200 (Exprivia Molfetta)
In Champsionship and Italian Cup: Jiri Kovar – 6 attacks to 1000 (Cucine Lube Civitanova)
Leonardo Castellaneta (Exprivia Molfetta): “We’ll finish the season versus the top team of the season. It was an high and lows year for us, we played well versus the powerhouses, we preparred in the best way this game, it seems a not so important game,but we want to play in the best way we can in front of our fans, looking forward to the playoffs for 5th place, where we’ll face teams at our level. With this game we’ll have the challenge Sabbi-Hernandez for the title of top scorer of the season, let’shope our opposite will win this title”.
Alberto Casadei (Cucine Lube Civitanova): “In Molfetta we’ll honour last game of the regular season, we clinched the first place two weeks ago. The win versus Modena gave us more confidence, we are already thinking to Champions LEague game versus Berlin, fundamental for the first place in the Group. But before we have to think to Molfetta”.
