Quickness is the word that qualifies best this second round of the Italian volleyball Serie A1. Every single game finished on a 3:0 score. Valentia surprised Trentino.
The upset of the day comes from Vibo Valentia, who swept last year’s league runners up Trentino. Vibo Valentia played as a great team and got rid of the European champs, Trentino. Three sets was enough to brush aside what was its bugbear and the team that had knocked them out of the playoffs last season. On the other side of the net, it was hard to recognise Trento, definitely not playing at its usual standard, with Kaziyski and Vissotto disappointing. Marquez impressed on his debut for Vibo, he was just unstoppable. Jon Uriarte (Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia): “We’ve worked really hard to prepare this game during the week, because we knew we had to face a great team. I have to thank all the boys for keeping their focus at all time, even in the difficult moments”.
The tricolour choregraphy that welcomed the Italian champs was beautiful. The monoflex was tricolour too at the PalaBanca, and it will be so for the whole season in Piacenza. The champs did their job and, above all, showed an understanding between the players that the teams usually can’t boast at this time of the season. Loreto was in it in the third set, forcing Piacenza to a tight finish. Meoni was named MVP.
Predictions were respected as Macerata (without Swiderski and Dentino) only had a few problems in the first set, in which it lost Corsano too because of pain on his knee (well substituted by Smerilli). Then, De Giorgi’s team had it all easy even though Pineto staye din the second set until 15. Alberto Cisolla finished top scorer and MVP, scoring 13 points (60% in attack and one block).
Yoga Forli stayed in the game for just two sets, suffering on Cuneo’s acceleration halfway through each set. At 20-24 in the first set, Daniele Moretti got injured at his shoulder on a serve. The final set was without suspense, with Nikolov standing out.Modena easily overcame Verona in its home debut. Sottile’s team couldn’t find the understanding and the aggressiveness shown in the first round, while Dennis took care of things for Modena. It was all one-way traffic in favour of the host, Treviso, which swept Perugia. Taranto had an exelent game in Latina and deserved the victory 3:0.
Italian volleyball league results and ranking
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