Italian SuperCup: Lube and Perugia book places in final!

The two spectacular games were played yesterday in the second legs of the 2020 Italian 2020 Del Monte® Supercoppa!
Just like in the first leg, played a week ago, Itas Trentino came back twice in the semifinal match against Cucine Lube Civitanova but this time failed to outplay the rivals.
At the seasonal debut at their Eurosuole Forum, Lube redeemed for a five-set defeat in the first leg, beat Trentino with the same result (3-2, partially 25:18, 22:25, 25:19, 20:25, 15:11), plus the golden set (15:12). All that in more than two hours of a battle for the final of the tournament, which was relocated from the Verona square to an indoor hall.
Cuban-Brazilian Yoandy Leal was the top scorer for the winning side with 15 points, including 4 winning blocks, while Simone Anzani set up the same number of blocks, and Leal served 5 aces. In Trentino, the Dutchman Nimir Abdel-Aziz scored 20 points.

The tie-break was seen also in the other semifinal that lasted for more than two hours as well: Leo Shoes Modena were close to extending the match against Sir Safety Conad Perugia to the golden set after getting a lead in sets of 2-1 and having two set balls in the fourth set. However, the guests annulled them both and took the set by a 28:26. Leveling the match at 2-2, Perugia earned a place in the final and could afford to lose the tie-break.
Cuban-Polish Wilfredo León was Perugia’s most prolific player with 21 points, including 4 aces, while Argentinean Sebastián Solé made an 85% attack. Serbian Nemanja Petrić scored 15 points for Modena, and His compatriot Dragan Stanković had a 73% attack.

2020 Del Monte® Supercoppa, semifinal – 2nd leg:

Cucine Lube Civitanova – Itas Trentino 3-2 (25:18, 22:25, 25:19, 20:25, 15:11)
Cucine Lube Civitanova: De Cecco 2, Juantorena 13, Anzani 8, Rychlicki 12, Leal 15, Simon 14, Marchisio (L), Balaso (L), Yant Herrera 0, Hadrava 0, Falaschi 0, Kovar 0. N.E. Larizza. Coach. De giorgi.
Itas Trentino: Giannelli 8, Michieletto 11, Cortesia 7, Abdel-Aziz 20, Kooy 19, Podrascanin 9, Bonatesta (L), Rossini (L), Sperotto 0, De Angelis (L), Sosa Sierra 0, Santos De Souza 1, Argenta 0. N.E. Acuti. Coach. Lorenzetti.

Leo Shoes Modena – Sir Safety Conad Perugia 3-2 (25:22, 25:20, 14:25, 26:28, 15:12)
Leo Shoes Modena: Christenson 0, Lavia 11, Stankovic 11, Karlitzek 9, Petric 15, Mazzone 12, Iannelli (L), Sanguinetti (L), Porro 1, Grebennikov (L), Vettori 4, Bossi 3, Estrada Mazorra 1, Rinaldi 1. Coach. Giani.
Sir Safety Conad Perugia: Travica 0, Leon Venero 21, Ricci 6, Vernon-Evans 12, Plotnytskyi 12, Solé 12, Piccinelli (L), Colaci (L), Ter Horst 3, Sossenheimer 1, Biglino 0, Zimmermann 1. N.E. Atanasijevic, Russo. Coach. Heynen.