Graziani bitter over the defeat of Da Rold with the leaders. “We overestimated them”

The hitter was the best against Grottazzolina, with 16 points on the scoresheet. “There is great regret for the progress of the third set”

He was the only player from Da Rold Logistics Belluno to go in double figures. And he succeeded thanks to a sometimes sumptuous performance, despite the result that, in the end, did not reward. With his 16 points on the scoresheet, the Genoese band Alessandro Graziani dragged the Rhinos to victory in the second set (his turn to serve that allowed them to go to close that set) and almost led them to win the third too. (in which there remains a pinch of final regret). Too bad it wasn’t enough to snatch at least one point from leaders Grottazzolina. At the end of the game, the hitter born in 1991 is not fully satisfied.

“We let ourselves be a little dazzled by the fact that we were facing a strong team”, Graziani begins, also yesterday followed in the stands of the Spes Arena by his girlfriend, the cycling world champion Letizia Paternoster, “and we didn’t take full advantage of the possibilities it has granted us. Possibility that we had on the one hand because our opponents have perhaps underestimated us a little, on the other because we are going through a period of great security and awareness of our means ».

What match was it?

«In the first set it was quite clear that we were waiting to see what game the opposing team was playing. When we saw that he was strong, but that we could compete, then we started playing evenly, like from the second set. In the third, however, the classic script that has characterized our third sets in recent months has been repeated a bit, and it’s a shame. Even just taking home a point, this time, would have been like winning for us, also because we wanted to recover a point from those we lost in the previous games, for example when we reached the tie-break but we could have won it earlier ».

Not everything, however, is to be thrown away, on the contrary …

«In any case, we still have the awareness that comes from the fact that we have been able to play against a team that is fighting and will certainly fight for the top positions and that if they win this championship, in my view, they will not have stolen anything. As far as we are concerned, we have been good at understanding their weaknesses, however few they may be, and overall we played a decent match. On the other hand, I don’t think they played their best. Even Vecchi, whom I know well, is usually someone who doesn’t really get anything wrong. While this time he granted something… ».

On Sunday you will be back on the field again, in San Donà …

«From now until Christmas easy matches are not waiting for us, also because, with the exception of Portomaggiore, all the teams we face are ahead of us in the standings. But if against a practically unbeaten team like Grottazzolina we have shown that we can play it, then we must not fear any opponent. We are a team that is hungry and hungry. We simply have to make our desire to win and our hunger for points last from the first to the last minute of every match ».

As for the other singles of Da Rold Logistics, yesterday Matteo Mozzato attacked with percentages higher than 50% (9 points scored by the center in 2002). Finally, the second call-up to the first team for the opposing spiker Stefano Guolla, also yesterday brought to the bench by coach Diego Poletto in the role of second free, must be recorded.