“There are regrets because, beyond the fact that they were better in the decisive moments, we could have still won the fourth set after a point-for-point battle, then the tie-break would have decided it, but we wouldn’t have come away empty-handed. If anything, we were a bit naive—that’s true—and not very careful at times.” This is how head coach Marco Bartolini commented on ErmGroup Altotevere’s 3-1 defeat in Belluno in the opening match of the Credem Banca Serie A3 championship, White Group, with the match over. In his analysis of the match, Bartolini noted another detail: “The team didn’t play at the same pace in terms of individual performances; in short, there was a lack of consistency, in the sense that when someone was performing well, someone else was making mistakes.
