Garlasco stecca, direct salvation postponed

The Lomellini lose to Montecchio, to avoid the play-outs on Sunday they will have to beat the relegated Brugherio by three points

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No early salvation, indeed, pathos that rises because Volley 2001 Garlasco loses without scoring points in Montecchio Maggiore and, at the same time, Turin wins 3-1 with San Donà di Piave. When there is only one round left at the end of the regular season, Turin has only one point behind the lomellini and also on Belluno who lost 3-1 in Portomaggiore. Savigliano, defeated in Macerata, is mathematically in the playout as well as mathematically Bologna is the second directly relegated to B.

the target stays close

Next Sunday at home with the already relegated Brugherio, Garlasco is always safe if he wins by three points. Otherwise, a flurry of three-team combinations is triggered with one certainty, that is, two will be saved directly, the other will play the playout with Savigliano for only one place. ViviBanca Torino will play the last round in Savigliano and at the same time Belluno has a very hard home match against Tinet Prata di Pordenone who wants to close in second place. As for yesterday’s game, Coali’s turn pushes Garlasco 3-4 ahead, then the Vicenza players find the reply and travel in close contact (7-6) and Magalini on the wall sets a new parity (11-11). Clean breaks the wall and overtakes again (12-13), but it is time out for coach Vittorio Bertini after two mistakes in a row of his (16-14). When Magalini is walled up, the gap widens (19-16), but the shift in Di Noia’s service pushes Garlasco’s comeback (19-19).

In the long sprint to the advantages they decide the final wall of Montecchio after some fatal drops in the Lomellina reception (29-27). Coach Bertini’s team starts badly despite even a time out (9-5) and continues even worse with errors caused by poor concentration and an approach that is now not very angry (12-8), with rather late covers and walls. It gets worse and worse and it is 17-11 when Porcello is bricked up by one. Three walls in a row of Montecchio Maggiore lead coach Bertini to a (perhaps late) time out at 19-12, but the Garlasco thorn is detached and the score takes embarrassing dimensions (23-12) as the end of the period at 25-14 . In the third set, after a long run on always minimal delays, the team of coach Bertini equalized at 18-18 and then found the shot with Puliti and Magalini (20-22). Mellano enters and puts the ace of 21-24, then Crusca reopens the game (22-25).

The Vicenza team resumes positive inertia (10-7) with a wall that, as in the second set, becomes impassable (12-8). Bertini spends it on a time out with decibels intended throughout the gym, but without success if it is true that it must be repeated on 17-11. The of him go up to -2 (22-20) with a wall of Magalini, cancel a match ball with an ace of Magalini, then surrender. Against Brugherio, next Sunday, they will have to show another attitude so as not to ruin everything at the last kilometer.

Fabio Babetto