Eve of the start of the group stage of the Play Off 5th Place, with Rana Verona starting at home against Allianz Milano. Close to the challenge, Coach Dario Simoni spoke at a press conference, presenting the match that awaits his team.
These are his words: “Tomorrow we face an important team, which has a great setter like Porro, a very strong opposite hitter like Reggers, then there is this young Japanese Otsuka who is expressing himself at a high level after having played little during the season. It will be a fairly complicated match. The team is doing well, I have everyone available. How do we prepare for the match? The reception must always be taken care of, they train the variety of the serve a lot, both the starting position of the server and the directions, because they alternate strong serves with float ones. We will have to be very good at adapting. Then with good reception they push the ball a lot in position four with Louati and Otsuka, good at working both on the parallel and on the diagonal. We will have to do well at blocking and be good at adapting to their various situations”.
