Egonu space: 39 points in Urbino, Prosecco Doc Imoco wins at the tiebreak

Monstrous proof of the opposite blue, lethal weapon against Vallefoglia. But Conegliano leaves a point to the opponents, never dom

URBINO. It is now a fact that matches with low-ranking teams are the ones that create more headaches for Prosecco Doc Imoco. Like last Sunday against Cuneo, it was also seen last night in the recovery of the first day of the second round where it was necessary to have a tiebreaker, and a performance of 39 points for Egonu to bring home the success. Vallefoglia, in search of points for the salvation fight, snatched a point from the panthers.

Santarelli, leaving Folie to rest, asked the other two power stations to make an effort with the rest of the sextet unchanged. The match start is what you don’t expect. A lot of rust for the yellow-blues who struggled to put the ball on the ground, keeping the opponents in the game thanks to numerous errors in attack (8). For the Umbrians, Carcaces and Kosheleva put pressure on the panthers, especially from the second line.

Positive note of a subdued set were the rediscovered early times of Vuchkova and De Kruijf. Securities wavered until then, and then those of the best days returned. De Kruijf’s injury is a distant memory: of him the points that allowed the panthers to take the lead by three points, one of which was finalized after a bagher lift by De Gennaro (2-5). The point of 4-5 came with a video check, also bothering the first referee, who got off his chair, to bring order to the field. The attack of the panthers has improved, with Plummer entering the scoresheet with three consecutive points (5-10). She was also echoed by the other crushers, who made their way through the hands of the Umbrian wall. 11 set points available to equalize, but Wolosz was satisfied only with the first (13-25). The spiker Carcaces, is then back on the shields. But some mistakes in the opponent’s attack and an excellent turn from the nine-meter line by Vuchkova brought the Prosecco Doc on 8-12. A block from the Gialloblù captain and De Kruijf then increased the advantage (11-16). The Umbrians, with Mancini’s nails and ace, tried to stay afloat (17-21) but nothing was worth it for the comeback.

Many Gialloblù errors, as many as 9. In the fourth, after a good start of the set (5-8), the Umbrians dominated thanks to the jokes of Berasi and the plays of Kosheleva and Kosareva (12-9). Still too many mistakes for the Gialloblù who saw the tigers running further and further forward (18-12). The atmosphere cooled when Kosheleva, coming down from an attack, placed her knee and foot badly on the ground. Winning the game needed the seventh tiebreak of the season, the fifth won by the panthers. So much effort for a match that on paper it could have ended in three sets. Now the imperative is to gather physical and mental energies for the next challenges, on Sunday at the Trento home.