The championship playoffs for Sir Susa Vim Perugia began yesterday with a good victory.
The comeback success of the Block Devils at the PalaBarton against Rana Verona in game 1 of the quarter-finals was the emblem of what is in fact the post-season of the Super League, a succession of emotions, an increase in tensions, a struggle close sport between all the contenders.
It was tough for the Bianconeri to get the better of the Scala team, the team’s ability to stay mentally in the match after the first set lost at the wire combined with important growth in some fundamentals allowed president Sirci’s men to take control from the second set the dispute and to direct it along tracks more congenial to one’s game.
Series therefore at 1-0 for Perugia and the team, which today benefits from twenty-four hours of rest and recovery, with its head in the box and already projected towards match 2 scheduled at the Pala Agsm AIM in Verona on Sunday evening at 8.30 pm in front of the Raisport cameras.
This is the strong meaning of the words of Juventus director Simone Giannelli and coach Angelo Lorenzetti.
“We started a difficult series well against a team that plays very well and with important individuals,” says Giannelli. “We won the first of a best-of-five series, game 1 is now over so we just have to look ahead and think about the next one without too much enthusiasm. On Sunday we will find a full and warm arena, it will be a difficult match like yesterday’s, but with the public on their side. We will play our game with humility, awareness and pride.”
“We are 1-0, but in the playoffs we have to win three and it doesn’t say which or how”, confirms Lorenzetti. “We will need continuity, there will be moments in the series in which we will go down and we will have to know how to live through them tooth and nail to get the three victories we need in three, four or five races.