Serie A1 TIM
Finale Scudetto: V-Day
We are just a few hours away from V-Day, the event that will hand in the league title over a single game for the first time in history.
Just three months after the Cup final (won by Trento), Cuneo and Trento will fight again for a title on Sunday 9 May at 6pm in Bologna’s Futurshow Station. A sold-out gym will welcome Cuneo and Trento as both won 3-1 their semi-final series, at the expense of Treviso and Macerata respectively. They were also the only two teams to win their quarter-finals on a sweep, respectively against Piacenza and Verona.
1ª- Itas Diatec Trentino | 3 |
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3-0 3-2 3-0 |
| Itas Diatec Trentino | 3 |
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8ª- Marmi Lanza Verona | 0 | 3-0 3-2 0-3 3-2 |
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4ª- Trenkwalder Modena | 1 |
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1-3 2-3 3-2 0-3 |
| Lube B.Marche MC | 1 |
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5ª- Lube Banca Marche MC | 3 |
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2ª- Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo | 3 |
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3-0 3-1 3-0 |
| Bre Banca Lannutti CN | 3 |
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7ª- CoprAtlantide Piacenza | 0 | 3-1 0-3 3-1 3-1 |
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3ª- Sisley Treviso | 3 |
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3-2 0-3 3-1 3-0 |
| Sisley Treviso | 1 |
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6ª- Acqua Paradiso Monza | 1 |
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Finale (V-Day)
Sunday 9 May at 6pm in Bologna – Live on Rai Sport Più
Itas Diatec Trentino – Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo
(Cinti-Barbero)
Itas Diatec Trentino – Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo
Past encounters: 32 (17-15 Cuneo).
In playoffs: 6 (4–2 Trento).
Emanuele Birarelli (Itas Diatec Trentino): “V-Day will be a great and unique event. This is the first time that the title will be played on one single encounter and I am glad that my team will be in it. We might have had a little bit more of an advantage if It had been played in its traditional format of five games as we would have played home 3 times, but I think this solution can be a good promotional move for volleyball. It will be very tight, it could go either way. Cuneo made it difficult during all season and it will do it again. It will be strange to play against three players that won the title with us in 2008, but we’ll quickly get used to it. Grbic does a great job of hiding his intentions and I don’t think knowing him well will be much of an advantage”.
Wout Wijsmans (Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo): “This final will be a tough game between two excellent teams. No wonder those teams finished first and second in the regular season. Still, Sunday is a new game, everything that happened before must be left behind. Our strength will be k
