Double session today for Sir Safety Susa Perugia. Coach Anastasi’s men did a purely physical job this morning in the weight room, technical training is scheduled in the afternoon with attention focused on the reception and sideout phase as well as obviously on the tactical preparation of the next black and white opponent.
The focus is in fact on WithU Verona and on Sunday’s match (kick-off and live Raisport at 18:00) at the Verona Agsm Forum when Perugia will cross the boxing gloves against Radostin Stoytchev’s team
After the fourth place overall at the end of the first round, the yellow and blue formation currently occupies the seventh seat of the Superlega with 19 points resulting from 7 wins and 6 defeats. Verona is back from the home defeat at the tie break against Piacenza in the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup and therefore the young and talented boys of the expert Bulgarian coach will certainly take the field thirsty for redemption.
Yes, because coach Stoytchev in concert with the club was able to build a potentially devastating group of players in their twenties or so in the summer, combining it with some elements of proven experience. Two of these are in the control room and they are Spirito (in his seventh year in Verona) and the eternal Brazilian Raphael, born in 1979 with infinite talent. Diagonally opposite is the “tower” of the Super League, the Russian Sapozhkov, born in 2000, 220 cm. and an impressive physicality in attack and blocking, without forgetting that the Dane Jensen, left-footed born in ’99 and owner last season, is pawing on the bench. Two jerseys are played in the center Cortesia (born in ’99, Treviso Volleyball school), Moscow (born in 2000 world champion with De Giorgi’s Italy) and the Bulgarian born in ’98 Grozdanov, who returned to Verona after his experiences in Ravenna and Monza . Then there is a complete spiker department like few others in the league. The owners and pivots of the team are the Slovenian born in 2002 Mozic and the Malian born in 2001 Keita. Ready in case of need on the bench the Canadian expert Perrin and the class of 2001 Magalini. To close the circle in the second line the free class 2002 Gaggini, ex Monza.
WithU Verona is an admittedly physical team, a skill that obviously exploits in the fundamentals of the attack, thanks to forwards who combine power with important heights, of the serve and the block. The statistics of the Superlega also tell it well that they see WithU third (behind Perugia and Piacenza) in the number of aces with 82 winning services, second (behind Perugia) in the percentage of offensive effectiveness with 53.8% of the team and among the first (fifth) also in the number of winning blocks with 111 points in the fundamental.
