Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza will be busy on Tuesday 26 December (6.00 pm) at the PalaPanini in Modena where they will face Valsa Group Modena in the match valid for the eleventh and final first leg of the SuperLega Credem Banca championship. Important points are up for grabs to make up the starting grid of the Del Monte Italian Cup whose quarter-finals the red and whites will play on Wednesday 3 January 2024, where and with whom it will only be known on the evening of 26 December.
Challenge number seventeen is coming against the Modena team. There are sixteen precedents between the two teams in the Regular Season, 5th Place Play Off, Scudetto Play Off and Del Monte Coppa Italia SuperLega.
The balance is in favor of Modena who won ten matches while Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza won six, three of which last season in Game 3, Game 4 and Game 5 of the Quarter Finals of the Scudetto Play Offs.
The two teams have faced each other eight times in the Regular Season with seven victories for the Modena team and one for the red and whites, twice in the 5th Place Play Offs in the 2020-2021 season with one victory for each side, once in the 2021-2022 season in Italian Cup with victory by Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza and five times last season in the Quarter Finals of the Scudetto Play Offs with three victories by Piacenza.
The match with the highest score between the two teams dates back to last season: second day of the Quarter Finals of the Scudetto Play Offs when Modena prevailed at PalabancaSport 3-2 (19-25, 25-21, 22-25, 25 -21, 15-13) and the match recorded 211 points overall.
As regards the “hardest” sets, however, we are talking about the 2020-2021 season: on the sixth day back in Piacenza, the first set was won by Modena 35-33 and in the end they also won the match while in the 2019-2020 season the second set of the second day back played in Modena ended 33-31 for the Modenese.
Two easier partials: 2020-2021 season, sixth day of return to Piacenza Modena prevailed in the second set 25-15 while in the 2021-2022 season it was Piacenza that prevailed 25-15 on the second first day. In both cases, in the end it was Modena that prevailed.
