Perugia facing Milano

Allianz Milano will therefore be the opponent of Sir Susa Vim Perugia in the championship semi-final starting on Sunday at PalaBarton with game 1.
Yesterday evening defined the picture of the four queens of the playoffs with Piazza’s team capable of defeating Piacenza in three sets in the decisive game 5 and with Monza, in the other part of the scoreboard, able to do the same in Civitanova and to reach the reigning Italian champions from Trento in the other semi-final.
Among other things, the quartet protagonists of the Final Four of the Italian Cup are curiously reunited, just as the pairings of the two semi-finals will be identical, proving, as the pitch said, how Trento, Perugia, Monza and Milan were the four most consistent teams of the season in the Italian Super League.
Obviously remaining with Juventus’ home affairs, the challenge with Milan is therefore renewed. A remake challenge of last season’s quarter-final series won by Milan in five games and, if on the one hand the Milanese team dreams of an encore, on the other the Block Devils dream of taking sporting revenge on the field.
Three seasonal matches all ended in tie breaks with two victories for Milan in the regular season and a victory for Perugia in the semi-final of the Italian Cup in Bologna. Fifteen sets that showed a great balance between the two teams always broken by a few balls and a few plays.
Coach Piazza’s Allianz Milano has a very clear playing and team physiognomy.
A team that has its strong point in the break phase with the weapons of service (generally characteristic of the entire sextet and in particular of Porro, Kaziyski and Ishikawa), of the block-defense correlation (always very orderly and tactically disciplined in the break phase of the block and with defenders of the highest level such as libero Catania, but also Porro and Ishikawa) and the quality and management of the counterattack (few errors, a lot of ability to “play” against the opponent’s block) capable of putting any opponent in difficulty .
A team that, however, also knows how to assert itself in the sideout phase thanks to a receiving line that concedes very little (yesterday Piacenza, a top-level nine-metre team, finished with only two aces scored both by Simon) and with a first always very lucid attack in the management of Porro, based on the devastating pipe of both four places and which gives very little to the opponent.
Above all, a team very well trained by Piazza, very strong mentally, certainly in rhythm and in excellent shape.