Simone Marzolla on fire

He reached 20 points in his personal score (19 plus one ace, to be precise), spread across the five sets of the match against Stadium Mirandola. He was the top-scoring attacker for ErmGroup Altotevere, although his 44% prolificacy rate lags behind spikers Matteo Alpini and Gioele Favaro. He also faced a few blocks, but at the key moments of the match, Simone Marzolla was the extra man for Marco Bartolini’s team. After a difficult moment, he rebounded at the end of the fourth set and led the team to victory in the tie-break with his position-two shots, including the one that brought the score to 15-13, which closed the very long match against the Emilians. Marzolla was satisfied and also clear-headed in his analysis of this 3-2 victory, which has moved Altotevere up the standings again. “We struggled even in the sets we won,” the Venetian opposite hitter commented, “and we always went point-for-point. It wasn’t a great match, because we didn’t play good volleyball, neither physically nor technically, but we played with heart. We were tired of losing, and the fifth set showed it: we wanted to win to get back to having a good week.”