Rinascita ready for Game 2

After the 3-0 won in the first leg in Tricase, the home of Aurispa DelCar Lecce, at Rinascita Lagonegro there is a strong desire to close the first playoff round positively in front of the friendly public at the Palasport of Villa d’Agri. All things considered, and following the rules, Lorizio’s boys will only need two sets against the Salento team to advance to the quarter-finals. Tomorrow afternoon’s opportunity (6pm) is therefore too good to miss. This is why the coach, despite the clear victory seven days ago, wanted to keep his concentration high during the week, working hard in the gym on the details: despite losing the first round, Lecce still demonstrated that he can create problems for Rinascita, especially in attack with the Mazzone-Sanchez pair capable of scoring 32 of the 49 total points in their favor. In the defensive phase, the reception worked well (32% perfect) with the same former Lagonegro spiker and libero Paolo Cappio. Rinascita will be able to respond to Salento’s desire for revenge with the usual Vaskelis, the best scorer of the A3 championship, 15 points in Tricase and immense technical and psychological support to the team. But also and above all with the fundamental of the block, an increasingly convincing weapon in the red and white team: 12 were scored in Puglia, 4 of which at the hands of Michael Molinari, the middle blocker from Marche was among the best on the court one week does. The Fioretti-Armenante chain of spikers also worked effectively (10 and 11 points respectively), Pizzichini in the center (starting instead of captain Miscione) gave a notable contribution with his 8 points, Fortunato was present in reception with his 62% position. Beyond the cold statistics, it is clear that tomorrow we expect a particularly heated and stimulating challenge, where experience and maturity factors will give their inevitable specific weight. The words of director Lorenzo Piazza, from this point of view, fit perfectly and keep the concentration of his teammates high: “It will be a very delicate match, even if we come from the positive result of the first leg we cannot pamper ourselves too much because it remains an internal match or out. The initial approach will be fundamental, I’m sure that Lecce will come to Villa d’Agri to try to overturn the result by selling their lives dearly until the last ball.” Lagonegro-Lecce will be refereed by Mariano Gasparro and Claudia Lanza and visible in live streaming on the official LegaVolley Serie A YouTube channel starting from 5.50pm.