It’s a beautiful Monday, of well-deserved rest, for Sir Susa Vim Perugia.
Yesterday’s round and deserved success at the PalaBarton against Cucine Lube Civitanova, the result of a convincing performance by president Sirci’s men, continues the positive streak of this start to 2024 and keeps the Block Devils always in second place in the standings chasing the leaders Trento.
To add to the satisfaction, yesterday’s full house in Pian di Massiano. The massive and joyful presence of the fans at the PalaBarton is a constant this season, the 4417 last night are the highest number in a match in Perugia since the summer restyling of the city facility and testify to the closeness and passion of the people towards the team .
The team returns to work tomorrow with a double work session to begin the preparation process for the next official match, the away match on Saturday 20 January at the PalaPanini in Modena to face the hosts Valga Group for the fourth leg of the championship.
The Civitanova chapter ends with the words of Roberto Russo and Angelo Lorenzetti.
“It was nice yesterday to play in front of such a large crowd, which made itself heard and which I thank,” says the central defender from Palermo who was the starter yesterday and author of a sumptuous performance which ended with 9 points with 2 aces, 1 block and 75 % in the first half. “I’m happy for the victory, we faced the match well from the start. It wasn’t easy, Civitanova is a strong team with many champions. Fabio was missing (Balaso, absent due to the premature death of his mother, ed.) and we know how important it is for them, we thought about our half of the pitch by putting in a good performance. I believe that if we start well and with the right determination, it is difficult for everyone to play against us. Yesterday we did it and perhaps the final result says just that. But now let’s turn the page and think about Modena. We will have a full week to prepare for an important match. We will have to put our best level forward, it will be a delicate match because they will certainly want to do well, but we will be ready.”
“During the season every team has certain moments, perhaps now Civitanova is not doing its best and it happens to everyone, for our part we played concentrated in all phases of volleyball”, explains the Juventus coach instead. “Yesterday we failed in the counterattack after a period in which we had grown in this aspect.