The week preceding the last match of the regular season in the Blue group of the Serie A3 Credem Banca championship for ErmGroup San Giustino has arrived, taking place next Sunday at the “Allende” stadium in Fano against the local team Smartsystem, second strength in coexistence with Rinascita Lagonegro and with a single point advantage over Marco Bartolini’s biancazzurri. And it is precisely with the coach that we address the key topic: if ErmGroup wants to maintain the top part of the play-off scoreboard, it will have to at least take a point to avoid being reached by OmiFer Palmi, which would overtake it based on the greatest number of victories achieved. If he were to achieve the full coup, he could even finish in second place. First, however, let’s go back to the home match against Shedirpharma Sorrento, which Marra and his teammates won 3-1. As soon as reception and defense were adjusted, with the addition of the serve, the music changed. Is this the most significant observation in the commentary? “We knew the value of the match – states Bartolini – so we had to win it. And the games to win are never easy. They too had to win to get out of a difficult situation in the rankings and after an initial phase in which we were a bit tense, the joke – a fundamental one that has been working in recent times – came in and we put them in difficulty. We managed to rebuild our ball exchange and the break phase energizes all the teams a bit, gives rhythm to the game and therefore we went the distance.” Why has the initial approach to matches become a little more complicated in the last month, so much so that the first set always goes to the opponents’ advantage? “I don’t know if in the end it is also thanks to the opponents we met, who perhaps have a free head and risk something, while we are a bit tense. We have to understand it, we are working on it and I say that the boys also started off with the right attitude. We played ball after ball until the end, then some uncertainties about rotation penalized us, but we started again convinced.”
