Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza played on par with Perugia in the last round of the championship on the pitch of the Italian Champions. A match that saw the Umbrians prevail in the first two sets, then suffer the return of the red and whites in the third and fourth sets and then close the hostilities with a fifth set in which the turn of the Ukrainian spiker Plotnytskyi on the opposite court was decisive along with the other two gangs Semeniuk and Ishikawa.
A match in which Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza fought before surrendering to the Umbrian battleship: in fact, there was only a total difference of four points between the two teams, 105 for Perugia, 101 for Piacenza.
Coach Andrea Anastasi’s team paid greater attention to errors than Perugia (26 point errors against 36 for the Umbrians) while Angelo Lorenzetti’s team had a better quality of reception with 47% positivity against 30% for the red and whites . And even in attack, Piacenza was less effective than their opponents: 45% for Piacenza in the team’s fundamentals against 49% for the Umbrians.
In the direct change of ball after a positive reception Perugia put the ball on the ground in 59% of the cases while Piacenza found the point in 48% of the cases while with a negative reception the red and whites found the point in 54% of the cases against 48% of the opponents.
Antoine Brizard relied above all on the high ball players with twenty-nine balls raised to Bovolenta, twenty-seven to Maar, twelve to Romanò on the pitch for just over a set and a half and sixteen to Kovacevic while in the center thirteen balls raised for the pair Galassi and Simon.
