Italy: Perugia tie semifinals against Modena with a 1-3 win on the road!

Regular season absolute leaders Sir Safety Conad Perugia conquered the PalaPanini, showing to be still alive in the playoff semi-final series of the 2021/22 Italian Superlega CredemBanca against No.4 Leo Shoes PerkinElmer Modena.
Perugia brought back Game 1 to their PalaBarton after winning Easter Sunday’s duel with a score of 3-1 (23:25, 25:22, 21:25, 21:25) and tying the series at 1-1.
It was a truly hard-fought and spectacular match, played at very high level just like the first one…and with a lot of tension on the court, again.

The absence of Yoandy Leal, who was disqualified for 4 matches, certainly left Modena without one of its pillars in attack. And referees still today had a difficult task to put team members under control today, being forced to react with 2 red cards (one to Perugia’s Roberto Russo and one to the member of the Modena staff, both causing a commotion from their respective benches) in the most important moment of 3rd set, at 19-19 (Modena trailed by 7 before that), removing Earvin Ngapeth from the service line the moment he served an ace. That made the Frenchman furious and to the surprise of many, he wasn’t given even a yellow card for his gestures.

Perugia did a great job coming back in the opening set from 5-10. American Matthew Anderson top-scored Perugia with 18 points, while Argentine Sebastian Solé made 6 out of his team’s 18 blocks. MVP award to libero Massimo Colaci.

| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH

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🏐| Superlega CredemBanca 2021/22 | Semifinals

Best-of-five

— GAME 1 —

April 13, 2022
• Sir Safety Conad Perugia – Leo Shoes PerkinElmer Modena 1-3 (22:25, 25:22, 22:25, 20:25) Serie: 0-1

April 14, 2022
• Cucine Lube Civitanova – Itas Trentino 0-3 (26:28, 20:25, 23:25) Serie: 0-1

— GAME 2 —

👉🏼 April 17, 2022
• Leo Shoes PerkinElmer Modena – Sir Safety Conad Perugia 1-3 (23:25, 25:22, 21:25, 21:25) Serie: 1-1
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH
Leo Shoes PerkinElmer Modena: Mossa De Rezende 3, Ngapeth E. 23, Mazzone 7, Abdel-Aziz 19, Van Garderen 3, Stankovic 4, Sanguinetti 0, Rossini (L), Ngapeth S. 6, Sala 0. N.E. Salsi. Coach. Giani.
Sir Safety Conad Perugia: Giannelli 4, Anderson 18, Ricci 8, Rychlicki 12, Leon Venero 15, Solé 11, Piccinelli (L), Colaci (L), Plotnytskyi 0, Ter Horst 0, Travica 0. N.E. Dardzans, Mengozzi, Russo. Coach. Grbic.

April 18, 2022
• Itas Trentino – Cucine Lube Civitanova 3-0 (25:20, 25:21, 25:23) Serie: 2-0