Italy: Perugia give no chance to Monza, Verona make Piacenza’s dream team stumble already on first match, Cisterna stun Milano. Trento ok

The players of Sir Safety Susa Perugia gave a beautiful gift to their head coach showing themselves powerful after Anastasi’s return to SuperLega after 17 years, as they celebrated a confident win.
In front of their own audience, the renewed side overcame Vero Volley Monza in just three sets and without major problems (25:19, 25:21, 25:18). The winners, with the Cuban-Polish Wilfredo León on the bench, imposed their own pace of play against a rival who lacked the starting setter Fernando Kreling ’Cachopa’. In fact, the Brazilian will be out for four months due a knee injury. The Luxembourgish Kamil Rychlicki, who now competes as an Italian player, scored 16 points including 4 aces for Perugia, while Massimo Colaci made 86% reception (14 digs, 57% perfect).
The German, Georg Grozer, scored 12 for Monza and Thomas Beretta had 4 blocks.

The return to their home court after more than four months of waiting was sweet for Itas Trentino. In fact, the players around coach Angelo Lorenzetti gave their fans the first satisfaction of the new season, beating the newcomers Emma Villas Aubay Siena 3-1 (25:16, 25:21, 23:25, 25:17) in their first match of the 2022/23 SuperLega.
It wasn’t an easy match for the hosts against a very combative team. The Bulgarian veteran Matey Kaziyski led the home side’s scorer with 26 points, including 5 aces, Alessandro Michieletto also contributed with 22 points including 4 winning blocks, while Gabriele Laurenzano had 79% reception (29 digs, 34% perfect). The Dutchman Maarten van Garderen scored 17 points for Siena.

The second surprise of the first round of Superlega, apart from Padova’s triumph over Modena, in one of the two advances of Round 1, was the one Top Volley Cisterna made on the field of Allianz Milano. Fabio Soli’s side not only imposed itself on the field of a favored rival, but even did so with a 3-0 (22:25, 19:25, 23:25)! The Croatian duo Sedlaček – Djirlić were decisive in Cisterna’s win, scoring both 16 points, while the Frenchman Jean Patry, put down the exact number of points on the losing side.

In the last match of the day we saw the third upset of the opening round, probably the biggest of all! WithU Verona conquered Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza’s PalaBanca after the exciting tie-break (20:25, 25:23, 25:23, 20:25, 22:24) of a very hot match. It was the kind of SuperLega debut of a highly reinforced Piacenza that their fans hadn’t hoped for.
In the fifth set, Verona, who came back from 1-2 down in sets, canceled three match points of the rivals before converting the fourth match point of their own.
The Russian Maksim Sapozhkov of Verona, as well as the Cuban-Brazilian Yoandy Leal, and Yuri Romanò of Piacenza, shared the top scorer of the match award with 25 points each. The Malian prospect Noumory Keita served 4 aces for Verona.

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🇮🇹| Superlega CredemBanca 2022/23 | 1ª Giornata Andata – Round 1 of First Leg

Saturday October 1, 2022
• 19.00 (Local Time) | Gioiella Prisma Taranto – Cucine Lube Civitanova 0-3 (23:25, 23:25, 21:25)
• 20.30 (Local Time) | Pallavolo Padova – Valsa Group Modena 3-2 (25:22, 16:25, 25:17, 23:25, 15:11)

Sunday October 2, 2022

• 15.30 (Local Time) | Sir Safety Susa Perugia – Vero Volley Monza 3-0 (25:19, 25:21, 25:18)
Sir Safety Susa Perugia: Giannelli 2, Semeniuk 10, Solé 7, Rychlicki 16, Plotnytskyi 12, Russo 7, Piccinelli (L), Ropret 0, Colaci (L). N.E. Herrera Jaime, Cardenas Morales, Mengozzi, Resende Gualberto, Leon Venero. Coach. Anastasi.
Vero Volley Monza: Visic 2, Davyskiba 8, Galassi 2, Grozer 12, Maar 10, Beretta 7, Pisoni (L), Pirazzoli (L), Szwarc 2, Federici (L), Magliano 0, Marttila 1, Mariani 0. N.E. Di Martino. Coach. Eccheli.

• 18.00 (Local Time) | Itas Trentino – Emma Villas Aubay Siena 3-1 (25:16, 25:21, 23:25, 25:17)
Itas Trentino: Sbertoli 2, Michieletto 22, Podrascanin 6, Lavia 7, Kaziyski 26, Lisinac 5, Pace (L), Nelli 0, Dzavoronok 1, Laurenzano (L), Cavuto 1. N.E. Berger, Depalma, D’Heer. Coach. Lorenzetti.
Emma Villas Aubay Siena: Finoli 0, Van Garderen 17, Biglino 9, Pinali 15, Petric 12, Mazzone 4, Pochini (L), Pereyra 0, Pinelli 0, Bonami (L), Ngapeth 0, Raffaelli 0. N.E. Coach. Montagnani.

• 18.00 (Local Time) | Allianz Milano – Top Volley Cisterna 0-3 (22:25, 19:25, 23:25)
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH
Allianz Milano: Porro 2, Ebadipour 6, Loser 8, Patry 16, Ishikawa 9, Piano 6, Colombo (L), Pesaresi (L), Vitelli 0, Bonacchi 0, Melgarejo Hernandez 1. N.E. Lawrence. Coach. Piazza.
Top Volley Cisterna: Baranowicz 2, Kaliberda 11, Rossi 2, Dirlic 16, Sedlacek 16, Zingel 4, Staforini (L), Bayram 1, Catania (L). N.E. Mattei, Zanni. Coach. Soli.

• 20.30 (Local Time) | Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza – WithU Verona 2-3 (20:25, 25:23, 25:23, 20:25, 22:24)
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza: Brizard 2, Recine 6, Simon 13, Romanò 25, Leal 25, Caneschi 14, Hoffer (L), Scanferla (L), Gironi 0, Basic 1. N.E. Alonso, Santos De Souza, De Weijer, Cester. Coach. Bernardi.
WithU Verona: Spirito 1, Keita 16, Grozdanov 6, Sapozhkov 25, Mozic 21, Cortesia 6, Bonisoli (L), Perrin 3, Gaggini (L), Mosca 4. N.E. Vieira De Oliveira, Zanotti, Jensen, Magalini. Coach. Stoytchev.
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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day)
Sir Safety Susa Perugia 3
Top Volley Cisterna 3
Cucine Lube Civitanova 3
Itas Trentino 3
WithU Verona 2
Pallavolo Padova 2
Valsa Group Modena 1
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza 1
Emma Villas Aubay Siena 0
Gioiella Prisma Taranto 0
Allianz Milano 0
Vero Volley Monza 0.

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🏐| NEXT ROUND | 2ª Giornata Andata – Round 2 of First Leg

Saturday October 8, 2022
• 18.00 Local Time | Vero Volley Monza – Allianz Milano
• 20.30 Local Time | WithU Verona – Itas Trentino

Sunday October 9, 2022
• 16.00 Local Time | Top Volley Cisterna – Gioiella Prisma Taranto
• 18.00 Local Time | Emma Villas Aubay Siena – Sir Safety Susa Perugia
• 20.30 Local Time | Cucine Lube Civitanova – Pallavolo Padova
• 20.30 Local Time | Modena Volley – Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza

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