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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – RETURN SEMIFINAL (First leg 0-3)
Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia – Trentino Itas 3-2 (25-22, 25-17, 23-25, 17-25, 15-6)
Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia: Travica 1, Leon Venero 21, Ricci 7, Ter Horst 15, Plotnytskyi 14, Solè 11, Colaci (L); Piccinelli (L, initially on the scoreboard as an attacker), Vernon-Evans 0, Zimmermann 0, Russo 3, Muzaj 5. NE Sossenheimer (L), Atanasijevic. Heynen herds.
Trentino Itas: Giannelli 2, Michieletto 9, Lisinac 8, Abdel-Aziz 17, Santos De Souza 11, Podrascanin 5, Rossini (L); Courtesy 0, Argenta 2, Sperotto 0, Kooy 0, Sosa Sierra 1, De Angelis (L). Lorenzetti herds.
ARBITRI: Maroszek, Cesare.
NOTES – established duration: 28 ′, 25 ′, 34 ′, 27 ′, 14 ′; tot: 128 ′.
PERUGIA – The 2020-21 Champions League final will be Trento-Zaksa. Lorenzetti’s team, after the 3-0 first leg, deservedly gave up the ticket to the Superfinals, thanks to a shouting comeback when the golden set now seemed the natural solution to the challenge. Another rewarded fails in Perugia, after those of Modena (Champions) and Milan (Play off), and has to complain above all to herself, for the 24 point errors in the two sets left to rivals; the tie-break victory, against a largely reworked Itas, is just the most classic of Pyrrhic’s victories. The “Block Devils” will now have to fully concentrate on the path of the Scudetto, for Trento, in addition to the great games against Lube, there is already a date with history on the calendar: on May 1 in Verona against Nikola Grbic’s team .
PIU ‘EI LESS – The numbers reward Perugia (53% to 42% offense, 9 to 2 aces, 12 to 9 winning blocks). Leonese top scorer with 21 points (53%), good performance by Solé (11 points, 69%); on the other hand, the best scorer is Nimir (17 times on the scoresheet, but also many errors, with 38%). Lucarelli’s contribution was decisive, with 11 points and a lot of substance in the decisive moments.
THE KEY – The central phase of the third set upset a game that now seemed to be channeled towards the golden team, with Sir in command (18-15), thanks to the double advantage. From there the light went out between the Block Devils, the errors multiplied (10 direct), antechamber of a fourth set in which Trento had the merit of remaining lucid, while Sir imploded on himself with another 14 errors – point . Too many to win a Champions League semi-final.
SEXTETS – Heynen relies on Travica as director and Ter Horst in front, Solé and Ricci in the center, Leon and Plotnytskyi to crush and receive and Colaci free. Lorenzetti responds with Giannelli-Nimir diagonal in position two, Podrascanin-Lisinac in the middle, Lucarelli and Michieletto in the band and Rossini in command of the second line.
THE MATCH SET BY SET –The walls of Michieletto and Lisinac push Trento to the start (1-3), Solé hits (5-5), giving way to a long question and answer, in which it is he who signs the break (15-13). Balance in attack (58% to 59% of the team), Trento does better on the block (one to five, three from Lisinac), but fails a lot in the service (nine direct errors); on the other hand, Plotnytskyi’s two aces widen the tear (18-14). Nimir shortens (21-20), Ter Horst and Solè again give a new boost to the Block Devils (23-20); Lucarelli cancels the first set-point, Nimir’s error from nine meters is worth the change of field.
Second set in balance in the first minutes (8-8), then Perugia warms up the engines in service, gradually increasing the gap with the aces of León (13-10, 128 km / h!), Ricci (15-11) , Ter Horst (17-12) and Plotnytskyi (20-13). The Sir is very inspired by attack (71%) with Leon on the shields (7 times on the score sheet), on the other side Nimir scores four, and his team does not exceed 50%. No wonder in the end, the Block Devils risk nothing and double down on Leon.
The third part opens with Podrascanin raising his tentacles towards the wall (2-4) and León striking from the baseline (5-5); Ricci rejoices twice on the block (12-10, six teams), León stretches and always throws the decisive sprint (18-15). In the most difficult moment, Itas compacted, led by Lucarelli (six balls on the ground); Lisinac hits and dumps (18-19), Plotnytskyi, still on the wall, keeps Sir (22-22) afloat, then it’s Nimir’s attack and Podrascanin’s first part to put Trento back in the game.
Ter-Horst double error at the beginning of the fourth set (1-3); Heynen throws Muzaj to the fore, but the attack continues to lose confidence (35% of the team) and Nimir (top scorer of his four players) stretches (7-12). León scores five with 40%, no more playable balls arrive in the center (zero to one for Ricci and Solé), Itas without exaggerating (45% of the team) continues to take off (9-17); Sir tries to get up again (15-18), the Lisinac wall demolishes the last hopes of Perugia (16-22) and it is again he who takes the ticket to Verona.
In the tie break Lorenzetti upset the sextet, leaving only Michieletto and Podrascanin among the owners on the field; on the other side enter Russo, Piccinelli, Zimmermann and Muzaj. Sir takes off from the first exchanges (7-2), the second lines of Itas do what they can but the gap widens (12-4); Ter-Horst closes the game, but the most important challenge was already finished. Trento goes to the final.
