Giannelli: “let’s think to Game 2”

Consistency, team solidity, determination, but also the knowledge that the series has only just begun! The thoughts in the black and white camp are unanimous this “day after” the Block Devils’ opening match in the Scudetto Final against Lube. Consistency and determination in volleyball are evident on the court, with the ability to manage the lead in each set, blocking every attempt by the opponent to get back into the match. Added to this is the knowledge that we are only just beginning and that the team from the Marche last night, in the stronghold of Perugia, failed to fully express their potential and will be looking for redemption immediately on Sunday, at home at the Eurosuole Forum, in front of their home crowd. And that’s not all. When a match is this important, you push hard on the serve, and at certain speeds and power, errors are always around the corner. Captain Giannelli explained it well, immediately after the match, starting with his satisfaction with the result, but especially with the entire team’s performance, emphasizing that if some of those balls had ended up on the court, the game might have gone differently: “It’s a good start, we’re happy with the game we played, the volleyball we showed, and the consistency we displayed. Now we can erase this, throw it away, use it to see what we can do better and move on. We know what awaits us on Sunday, in fact, we can imagine what awaits us on Sunday: Civitanova is a great team that perhaps missed a few more serves today, but only by a few, because they were really strong serves that went just wide, so if those balls had been ‘in,’ perhaps the momentum of the game would have changed. They’ve already shown over the years that they know how to fight and battle, that they don’t care about how far they’re in the series, and that’s the right mentality we want to have too, learning from them. So let’s try to do the same. Let’s forget this game, use it as feedback, and go to Civitanova knowing that it will be a whole different story and that we’ll have to fight point by point. On Sunday, we’ll go with what we know how to do, then once we’re on the pitch, we’ll see what we can do and adapt accordingly.