Italy - Serie A1 2008/2009

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Itas Diatec Trento - Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza 3:0 (25:15, 25:20, 40:38 ) stats MVP: Piscopo Cosimo Marco

horrible match for us. we played the worst match of the season, only in the third set we play quite good but it was too late...Trento played a great match, a big wall and an unstoppable Winiarski made the difference. in our side only Zlatanov can be "saved", the others played probably at the 50% of their possibilities and someone even less...
anyway it's not important loosing now, i still wait the Italian Cup and the playoffs, also because we're still in the top positions of the league, only one point behind from the third place.
only thing to save yesterday evening: the support of our spectacular fans.

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horrible match for us. we played the worst match of the season, only in the third set we play quite good but it was too late...Trento played a great match, a big wall and an unstoppable Winiarski made the difference. in our side only Zlatanov can be "saved", the others played probably at the 50% of their possibilities and someone even less...
anyway it's not important loosing now, i still wait the Italian Cup and the playoffs, also because we're still in the top positions of the league, only one point behind from the third place.
only thing to save yesterday evening: the support of our spectacular fans.

Zlatanov always plays in good shape even when Piacenza loses. But there is nothing unusual in the 3:0 result cause Trento is leading by the bulgarians - Rado Stoichev and Matey Kaziyski.

Itas Diatec is a great team not only because of Stoychev and Kaziyski... Without Winiarski and Grbic they would not be that strong and Piacenza is a fantastic team, I just don't know why they always need so little to win a big title (in the recent years, of course) and always finish second... with Marshall, Zlatanov, Meoni they deserve to win something this year!

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Itas Diatec is a great team not only because of Stoychev and Kaziyski... Without Winiarski and Grbic they would not be that strong and Piacenza is a fantastic team, I just don't know why they always need so little to win a big title (in the recent years, of course) and always finish second... with Marshall, Zlatanov, Meoni they deserve to win something this year!

i iperquote you!! hehehe
we were very unlucky in the past years for different reasons...often because of injuries in the crucial moments but sometimes also because of bad matches.
i'm not so sure that this year we can win something, i think we were better last year

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Zlatanov always plays in good shape even when Piacenza loses. But there is nothing unusual in the 3:0 result cause Trento is leading by the bulgarians - Rado Stoichev and Matey Kaziyski.

yesterday Kaziyski didn't play at his level, the match was decided by Winiarski and Piscopo(the middle-blocker), and most of all by our bad condition
i don't think Trento will win the title this year, cause now they have to play also in the Champions League, and during the playoffs this can be fatal, the players can be tired as ours were last year.

8th round:

FRAMASIL PINETO - TRENKWALDER MODENA 3-0
(25-19, 25-18, 25-22)
FRAMASIL
PINETO: De Oliveira 12, Fantin 8, Vicini (L), Lampariello (L), Mancini,
De Gennaro Leme 1, Rodrigo 13, Buti 8, Fabroni 2, Ravellino 7. Ne: Hietanen, Sborgia, Jago. Coach: Montagnani Paolo.
TRENKWALDER
MODENA: Tencati 6, Kooistra 15, Rinaldi (L), Dennis 1, Sartoretti 1,
Santos 9, Smuc 1, Travica, Siebeck, Endres 14. Ne: Lee, Pagni. Coach: Giani Andrea.

I cant understand why Modena is so bad...Problem is coach Giani or players?Anyway they must start winning this weekend...

Also collaboration between Radames Lattari and Franca has ended.The new coach will be announced soon...

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I cant understand why Modena is so bad...Problem is coach Giani or players?Anyway they must start winning this weekend...

problems are various, not only one, and none can't solve them...The coach has no experience, he was an icon when he was a player, but he can't do the trainer at the moment. And some players are happy of this situation because they want to change coach so they play bad. it's really strange. the fact is that the authentic history of Italian volleyball is now in a real bad situation. they will for sure remain in Serie A1, no doubt on it, but i'm not sure they can reach the playoffs, it's very very hard.

Marco Bonitta is a new coach of Stamplast Martina Franca
that's quite surprise for me . he said he want to be a man team coach now but i wouldn't thought he will get job so quickly and in A1 already he is a newbie is we talk about man. but anyway good luck to Marco and his new team

9th round:

Sisley Treviso - Framasil Pineto 1-3 ( 22-25, 25-20, 21-25, 20-25 )
BreBanca Cuneo - Itas Diatec Trento 3-2 ( 25-22, 22-25, 22-25, 25-18, 16-14 )
Marmi Lanza Verona - Rpa LuigiBacchi Perugia 0-3 ( 21-25, 18-25, 30-32 )
Lube Banca Marche Macerata - Yoga Forlì 3-0 ( 25-20, 25-15, 25-15 )
Trenkwalder Modena - Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia 3-1 ( 19-25, 27-25, 25-19, 25-21 )
Stamplast Martina Franca - Antonveneta Padova 2-3 ( 26-24, 27-25, 21-25, 18-25, 9-15 )

Tonight:

COPRA NORDMECCANICA PIACENZA - Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari

sooooo happy that Trento lost... now Macerata is first, they have a really strong team, maybe the first contender for Trento for the title. Modena woke up beating Vibo Valentia but i don't think they have solved all their problems, they suffered too much against a quite easy opponent. Padova took his first won in Martina Franca, Bonitta has to understand his team quickly to get good results in a short time....and then this extremely surprising Pineto, which was in A2 last year, but which is able to outclash Sisley in Treviso and reach the playoff-zone....unbelievable.
tonight if my team wins can reach the third place alone, i hope so and i believe so...

Piacenza - Montichiari 1-3 (26-24, 24-26, 22-25, 22-25)

i don't know what to say...this year my team has no heart, no passion, no will to fight....we lost against a good team but not better than us! absolutely! i'm wordless...
we made 40 errors! yes, you read good, it's not a fault, 40 errors.... incredible.
i hope in a change...but i'm not faithfull

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Piacenza - Montichiari 1-3 (26-24, 24-26, 22-25, 22-25)

i don't know what to say...this year my team has no heart, no passion, no will to fight....we lost against a good team but not better than us! absolutely! i'm wordless...
we made 40 errors! yes, you read good, it's not a fault, 40 errors.... incredible.
i hope in a change...but i'm not faithfull

wooow 40 errors ...Piacenza can't think of win if they made 40 errors in 4sets match. anyway what happened to Falasca? he wasn't in a rooster of Piacenza for couple of round is he injure or something?

This was quite good game. I looked at only two sets, but players risked with serve a lot of. Zlatanov quite well in two first setach, but something sat down then probably, because he had in attack weak statistics. Paparoni despite growth played in attack well.

Falasca has ended his season....
every year we suffer too many injures, you can't win anything if every season you loose 2 or even 3 players in the crucial matches...

10th round:

Framasil Pineto- Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza 1-3 (24-26, 16-25, 26-24, 23-25)
Sisley Treviso- Lube Banca Marche Macerata 0-3 (23-25, 22-25, 17-25)
Itas Diatec Trento- Acqua Paradiso Montichiari 3-0 (25-22, 25-23, 25-22)
Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia- Marmi Lanza Verona 3-2 (25-18, 19-25, 23-25, 25-20, 15-9)
Stamplast Martina Franca- Trenkwalder Modena 3-1 (22-25, 25-17, 25-23, 25-22)
Antonveneta Padova- Yoga Forlì 3-1 (25-14, 25-17, 23-25, 25-22)

Tonight:

Rpa LuigiBacchi Perugia- Brebanca Cuneo

sooo....quite good won for us versus the revelation of our championship, great match for Marshall(25 points) and Bravo (17 points and 71% attack) and a good block(13 points) which decided the game for us.
Macerata continue to astonish everybody, they're really dominating the league, in 10 matches only 6 sets losses and yesterday an easy won in Treviso(so not exactly the last team...).
Trento outclashed Montichiari quite easily, Kazyiski top scorer and man of the match, too many errors for the guests especially with the serve. Second won for Padova, they are trying to reach Forlì and Vibo to keep their position in the league at the end of the season, now they're more self-confident and they become not so easy to beat...
Modena continue his crisis, now i really think they won't be in the Italian Cup...loosing in Martina Franca it's a bad defeat.
Tonight a very interesting Perugia-Cuneo, the first winning 3-0 or 3-1 can reach the third place with us, the second need to win in order not to loose too many points from the top of the standing.

Standing:

Macerata 26
Trento 25
Piacenza 18
Montichiari 18
Treviso 16
Perugia 15*
Verona 15
Cuneo 14*
Pineto 14
Martina Franca 13
Vibo Valentia 10
Modena 10
Forlì 8
Padova 5

*= 1 match to play

Man of the match Trento - Montechiari was announced Grbic, not Kaziysky.