Final 3rd / 4th place first act: tomorrow starting at 18.00 (live on volleyballworld.tv) Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza takes the field at PalabancaSport for Game 1, against Allianz Milano.
It is the first time that the 3rd Place Final has been played, a best-of-five series. Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza, by virtue of the standings at the end of the Regular Season, has acquired the right to play the first, third and possibly fifth match at home of this 3rd place Final.
Piacenza, sixth at the end of the Regular Season, arrives at this appointment, which assigns the winner a pass for the next Cev Champions League while the loser will play the next Cev Volleyball Cup, after losing Game 5 of the Semifinal Scudetto with Trento while Milan, eighth at the end of the regular season, in the Semifinal Scudetto she always lost in Game 5 with Lube Civitanova.
Challenge number 10 the one that will be staged at PalabancaSport: Piacenza has won 6 of the 9 previous matches between the two teams, the Clubs meet for the first time in the Scudetto Play Offs.
This season the two teams met twice in the Regular Season and Piacenza won on both occasions: at the tie break in the first leg match played in Milan, 3-1 in the second leg at PalabancaSport.
Twelfth Play Off for the red and white central Enrico Cester, sixth for Robertlandy Simon, fourth for Yoandi Leal, third for Luka Basic, Ricardo Lucarelli, Leonardo Scanferla, second for Antoine Brizard, Edoardo Caneschi, Fabrizio Gironi, Nicolò Hoffer, Francesco Recine, Yuri Romanò , only one participation for Roamy Alonso and Freek de Weijer. First Play Off as coach for Massimo Botti.
