On Monday 26 December (6 pm), Boxing Day, the Kioene Arena will be the scene of a classic of SuperLega Credem Banca. Challenge number 53 between Volleyball Padova and Cucine Lube Civitanova is arriving for the 2nd round of the Regular Season.
Precedents: the Marchegians have prevailed on 45 occasions, but have been surprised on 7 occasions by the Paduans, the last time in the first round of the current season (success at the tie break by Volpato and his companions). La Lube won 20 of the 24 away games they played. There are 142 sets won by the cooks against the 53 brought home by the Paduans, the Lube branded points amount to 4243, of which 1875 away. Padova scored 3697 points, 1665 at home.
Statistical trivia
The match with the highest score was played in the 11th first leg of the 2017/18 season: Civitanova won 3-2 at the Eurosuole Forum (25-21, 26-28, 25-21, 24-26, 16-14 ) for a total of 226 points. La Lube also boasts a maximum difference of 34 points achieved on 27 January 2021 in the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup: the Cucinieri prevailed in 59 minutes (25-13, 25-12, 25-16). The maximum gap achieved by Padova, 27 points, was registered in the second leg of the 1995/96 tournament (before the rally point system) and the result was 3-1 (13-15, 15-4, 15-6, 15 -6).
