Italy: 3 points for Piacenza and Trento in advances of Round 14

Round 14 of 2025/26 Superlega CredemBanca or, if you prefer, Round 3 of second leg, started today with first two games, in which both winners earned three points.
All easy for Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza, which sweep newcomers MA Acqua S.Bernardo Cuneo 3-0 (25:17, 25:22, 25:17) in front of their home fans, approaching fourth place in the standings, currently to Valsa Group Modena (that tomorrow will face Sonepar Padova on the road) and surpassing Cucine Lube Civitanova, defeated at Trento in four sets, 3-1 (25:22, 25:20, 21:25, 25:22). Efe Mandiraci, Gianluca Galassi and Alessandro Bovolenta were protagonists of this game, scoring 13, 12 and 11 points respectively, while only Marko Sedlacek reached double digit on the other side of the net, leaving the court with 11 points. About Cuneo, debut also for French Alexandre Strehlau, that scored his first point in Superlega!
In a remake of last season’s final, Itas Trentino down Cucine Lube Civitanova in four sets, collecting 10th win a row in Superlega, with 17 points from Alessandro Michieletto and 15 each with the signature of Jordi Ramon and Theo Faure, with also Flavio in double digit. For Civitanova, surpassed in the standings by Piacenza, 24 from Aleksandar Nikolov weren’t enough to reopen the game after trailing 2-0.
Round 14 will be completed tomorrow with the remaining four games, including a very important game between Yuasa Battery Grottazzolina and Cisterna Volley to stay in Superlega.

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🏐| 2025/26 Superlega CredemBanca | 3ª Giornata Ritorno – Round 3 of Second Leg

👉🏼Saturday, January 3 2026

• 17.00 (Local Time) | Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza – MA Acqua S.Bernardo Cuneo 3-0 (25:17, 25:22, 25:17)
Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza: Porro 4, Mandiraci 13, Galassi 12, Bovolenta 11, Gutierrez 7, Comparoni 3, Loreti (L), Leon 0, Pace (L), Andringa 0, Bergmann 3, Seddik 0. N.E. Simon, Travica. Coach. Boninfante.
MA Acqua S.Bernardo Cuneo: Baranowicz 0, Sedlacek 11, Codarin 5, Feral 9, Zaytsev 8, Copelli 3, Giraudo (L), Cavaccini (L), Bonomi 0, Oberto 0, Strehlau 1, Stefanovic 0, Cattaneo 0. N.E. Sala. Coach. Battocchio.

• 18.00 (Local Time) | Itas Trentino – Cucine Lube Civitanova 3-1 (25:22, 25:20, 21:25, 25:22)
Itas Trentino: Sbertoli 1, Ramon 15, Resende Gualberto 10, Faure 15, Michieletto 17, Bartha 9, Pesaresi (L), Garcia Fernandez 0, Laurenzano (L), Acquarone 0. N.E. Bristot, Giani, Sandu, Torwie. Coach. Mendez.
Cucine Lube Civitanova: Boninfante 4, Bottolo 15, D’Heer 0, Loeppky 3, Nikolov 24, Gargiulo 10, Orduna 0, Bisotto (L), Balaso (L), Hossein Khanzadeh 7, Kukartsev 0, Duflos-Rossi 0, Tenorio 2. N.E. Podrascanin. Coach. Medei.

Sunday, January 4 2026
• 16.00 (Local Time) | Sir Susa Scai Perugia – Allianz Milano 3-1 (25:21, 23:25, 25:14, 25:19)
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Sonepar Padova – Valsa Group Modena 1-3 (25:20, 20:25, 23:25, 17:25)
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Yuasa Battery Grottazzolina – Cisterna Volley 3-2 (20:25, 26:24, 25:22, 23:25, 15:9)
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Vero Volley Monza – Rana Verona 0-3 (20:25, 12:25, 25:27)

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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day):
1. Itas Trentino 35
2. Sir Susa Scai Perugia 32
3. Rana Verona 31
4. Valsa Group Modena 28
5. Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza 26
6. Cucine Lube Civitanova 25
7. Allianz Milano 23
8. Vero Volley Monza 12
9. Sonepar Padova 11
10. MA Acqua S.Bernardo Cuneo 9
11. Cisterna Volley 6
12. Yuasa Battery Grottazzolina 2.

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🏐| NEXT GAMES |4ª Giornata Ritorno – Round 4 of Second Leg

Saturday, January 10 2026
• 18.00 (Local Time) | MA Acqua S.Bernardo Cuneo – Yuasa Battery Grottazzolina

Sunday, January 11 2026
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Itas Trentino – Rana Verona
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Sir Susa Scai Perugia – Valsa Group Modena
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Cucine Lube Civitanova – Sonepar Padova
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza – Vero Volley Monza
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Allianz Milano – Cisterna Volley

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