The day after for Coach Piazza

In a spectacular setting that of the Mediolanum Forum with more than 8,000 people, the Umbrian battleship demonstrated its strength on the field, leaving the Milanese with dry mouth who, although combative, struggled to find offensive solutions capable of reducing the power of the leaders Perugia. A match that Milan had predicted as difficult not only from a technical point of view but also, and above all, from a mental one. The confrontation with the Block Devils, however, allowed coach Piazza’s men to measure themselves against a team that at the moment is the strongest, not only in the Italian championship, thus offering valuable keys to understanding the Milanese coach to grow and decline the hard work in the new challenges that await Piano and his companions. It was coach Roberto Piazza who spoke at the end of the match: «The match went along the lines that we partly expected and didn’t hope for, in the sense that we met the first in the class, and the first in the class fielded all his skill, they never had flaws in the first two sets except for a mistake by Plotnytskyi from the second row and one by Herrera, also from the second row, one in the first and one in the second. For the rest, apart from the service, a really clean game, good defense, good in everything. But it is Perugia, it is no coincidence that in the last five games, with this six, they have lost only one set. We expected a slightly different game as far as our side of the pitch is concerned, especially in the reception phase where in my opinion we could have done a little better in some situations and in the attack phase where until recently we hadn’t been so lacking in place 4, especially. We got off to a very good start with Mergarejo, then Ishikawa had some problems, in summary the only ones who consistently put the ball on the ground were the central players. A positive note is that our block was not inferior to theirs, this is the positive note of the game that I carry with me, it is obvious that there is a lot of work to do. Special mention for the audience which was splendid, but as always, it also followed us to the Forum, so thanks to the audience. Now we need to roll up our sleeves and work hard for the next match».