“Turns out that Kathryn makes me proud? Great work for us is a great purchase “

Coach Santarelli praises the character of his athletes after the match “It’s not easy to see someone like Paola out: excellent response”

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He has less voice than the usual coach Santarelli when he makes his first statements: «We approached the game in a very wrong way. We did it all, with our mistakes. It is a good lesson; I’m happy with the result, they are great proofs of character. I had to bring in Folie and Plummer, who have little training on their legs and it has been seen, Paola also had her difficulties. For Kathryn I have to say that the staff did an exceptional job, for us it was a great purchase. I am very proud to have brought home the result. The emblem of the team is the second set: I took off Egonu and I put on Frosini who made his. When we all recover it will be fun ». You have to go back to a match last February, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against Scandicci, to find a set lost as badly as the first in Conegliano. It was a 17-25, the prologue of a very tough match, and in that case too it was the starting set; the same thing had happened in the last defeat of the Panthers in Perugia, with the 15-25 opening match. Even being under two sets to one is a very rare fact: the Champions 2019 final (lost to Novara), the match against Perugia in December 2019 (lost in the tiebreak), the final of Champions 2021 (won with Vakifabank in the tiebreak). more tiring race of the panthers of the Egonu era, not so much from the physical point of view (even if the playing time is very high), as from the mental point of view, of the approach, of resilience. Resisting and reacting to difficulties is another merit acquired on the field by a team that, even if it does not reach the world record for consecutive victories, has already entered the history of world volleyball. Even with flat tires Conegliano crosses another finish line with his hands up, putting in patience, experience, pride and all the determination possible in managing the combativeness of the opponents. Many merits go to Monza and to its coach Gaspari who was able to find the best ways to put the Italian champions in difficulty: it was ata the game of lobs, on both sides, with Santarelli who had to take back his girls many times for missed covers. It is not easy, with the team so short, with incomplete training sessions, and with so many absences, never so many in recent years, to manage the situation and stay at the top at the highest level. The competition, as we have already seen in this first month of a very long season and with five trophies up for grabs, is very high and Conegliano has almost forgotten the “easy” and comfortable victories, with games that lasted less than 90 minutes. With yesterday’s tiebreak, Imoco loses a point in the championship and, at least, the record for the full loot in the regular season will not be able to reach it. –