Hi guys!!!
I was in Civitanova and despite Trento defeats and game I must say I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the experience a lot! ![]()
Congrats to Perugia for finally grab a trophy!! Same goes to (finally) captain De Cecco and Atanasjevic!
It really felt as a broken curse, and it was very deserved!
Russell clear MVP for me as well, but there are a lot of player I liked, from Colaci (
so hard to see him on the other side!!), to Zaytsev (as often not outstanding in attack, but helping a lot overall), to Podke (monster block!) to Luciano, but I also generally liked Ata.
More than once I though 'and now comes the moment he is chocking/will choke and after all it didn't happen: blocked at the end of the third set vs Trento, then at the end 4th set vs Trento I think he did a mistake, then was block, but I think he was the one that closed the match... and again yesterday, on a Perugia match point (or may be they were even?) he had to serve and I wasn't optimist, but he served very well.
One thing that won't change is him calling random videocheck, though
two calls by Magnum, two points for Lube! And it would have been 3 if Zaytsev hadn't sopped him once. Ivan also called to successfull challenge.
On Trento side, quite a terrible game imho (with several margine to improve, though), but I'm proud that as often happens they fiercely managed to incredibily come back, I'm still 2ondering how they won the third set of the semi despite being dominated by Perugia
After all both Trento matches became entrataining and made me having fun and hoping for the tie break until the very last.
I’m just hoping for tight, 5-setter games.
I hoped that as well, instead we had all 3-1... but quite fought sets especially in the ends, so it was funny non the less.
Worst service from Christenson
I was so upset it catched a player at the net, I would have loved to see it going actually under the net ![]()
He killed the ball at 25-25. There you can see the difference with the past finals. Russell played simply amazing. Those 3 aces in a row kept us alive. Zaytsev's all-around match was impressive
I agree!!
Quite good match by Zaystev, as usual is more usefull from the back row than as a spiker, when he plays as OH
I agree again!
but having Massimo Colaci is just a relief for all the outside hitters. He helped manned the backrow and that was the player lacking from Perugia last season. A really good libero.
he will be missed! Even if De Pandis imho was among the best in Trento (not a very hard challenge in this Supercup though
). Chiappa was often in the right place but rarely kept the ball positively alive, but I have faith in him, because Lorenzetti does. Obviously he is not there well, but I think/hope he will be. The worst things he did were like 3 sets on the other court or wrong, these were terrible ![]()
Pressure to win was always their number one worst enemy.
True, I think this victory is a great liberation for Perugia in general and for many of their players individually!