SCANDICCI. When the Imoco is on a part of the field, there are no surprises. The panthers win the championship final, liquidating the practice game 2 in Scandicci with another 3-0.
A match almost photocopy of the match at Palaverde, with Savino Del Bene, more for the demerits of the panthers than for their own merits, who managed to put Conegliano in difficulty for a set. Then when the yellow and blue gears start to spin again, the game goes back to respecting the script; even with an inaccurate Egonu in attack, and with a game that only at times respects the requests of caoch Santarelli.
The sextet chosen is the one run in: Wolosz and Egonu diagonally, Fahr and De Kruijf in the center, Sylla and Hill to crush and Gennaro free. Scandicci also presents itself with the same sextet of Palaverde, but with a totally different attitude, at least at the beginning. This is especially true for Stysiak who identifies the space in front of Egonu and puts it on the ground by exploiting the lack of reactivity of the blue opposite, who is also wrong in attack (5-5). Conegliano’s inaccuracies allow Scandicci to put his head ahead on 9-7.
The Imoco struggles to read Malinov’s game, and the wall fails to dirty the opponent’s attacks. In attack the percentages are lowered, and here is the three plus from Scandicci. Santarelli has to stop everything to put the taraflex in order, and he succeeds immediately with the wall. In an amen Conegliano is again ahead on 15-17. Egonu is at times unrecognizable, he reaches six errors in the set allowing Scandicci to stay there. But it is always she who puts down four of the last five points that lead to Conegliano in the first set.
However, dust has gotten into the Imoco’s gears, and the mechanisms don’t turn perfectly even at the start of the second set. The result is that you don’t see a great volley in the arena, and the match remains in balance. Hill is in the “Mr. Wolf, I solve problems” version, and with Moki inventing an impossible lift for Sylla, he takes the Imoco forward to 8-11. The furrow widens with Wolosz’s second touch and Scandicci’s mistakes in attack that make the second set slide towards Conegliano.
As in Palaverde, as soon as the panthers accelerate, the Tuscans sink. Fahr’s ace makes 12-20, a margin that allows the Gialloblù to lose pace again, before the final acceleration. The first ball for the set comes from the error in Lubian’s service, the panthers still fall asleep on Malinov’s serve, and De Kruijf’s fast is needed to make it two to zero.
Egonu continues with his bad relationship with the game, dropping some non-irresistible balls and also taking a bad wall at the start of the third set. De Gennaro performs in one of his now traditional bagher dribbles, which Sylla transforms into 4-7. The Sicilian spiker is very hot and puts two more on the ground in a row. The turn to serve is always that of Wolosz, who, even in this set, serves to dig a groove between the two teams (5-10).
Barbolini stops everything and suggests to his parents to pull towards the word “Savino” to find their hands out of Conegliano. But the momentum of the match does not change, and the panthers show the will to conquer the final championship without too much effort. Scandicci is unable to avoid the hands of the Gialloblù on the wall, and the first match point comes with the video-check called almost by chance by Santarelli. The cameras show Scandicci’s touch on the wall, leading Conegliano to 15-24. De Kruijf’s first half brings Imoco to the championship final.
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