Volleyball, Champions: Trento overwhelms Berlin and sees the semifinal

Trentino – Berlin 3-0 (27-25, 25-19, 25-22) Good first for Trentino Itas. Lorenzetti’s team makes the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals their own and now, to land in the semifinals, it will be enough to win two sets in Germany next week, despite having to give up Daniele Lavia due to a muscle problem. After a first battle set, a very good Giulio Pinali and a Lisinac who is really wonderful with Sbertoli, drag the Trentino people to a success in three partials. This Berlin is too foul and discontinuous to cope with an Itas which is only one step away to confirm itself among the top four teams in Europe after having already won a place on the podium of the Italian Super Cup, the Italian Cup and the regular season of the SuperLega. While the Germans present the most anticipated on the field, that is the free Argentine Santiago Danani (formerly of Padua and who also liked Trento so much) and the opposite Patch, Lorenzetti has to do without Daniele Lavia due to a minimal injury to the rectus abdominis.

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Thus the opposite is done by Giulio Pinali, while the rest of the sextet is now the usual one. The effectiveness of the Trentino defense wall allows the hosts a first extension on 8-5, thanks to Michieletto’s attack on the line, Schott’s ace brings the Berliners back in the wake (9-8) before a ‘ another winning measure, that of Patch on Kaziyski, does not restore parity (11-11). Lorenzetti then has to stop everything when Grankin presses a Kaziyski on the wall for the 11-13, a break in the margin that very clearly brings at the bottom the signature of the Russian setter author of some excellent choices in direction that make the Trentino block run (14 -16). The new parity reaches 18 even thanks to Pinali’s ace, the fuse to a heated and hard-fought final set turns on Carle’s diagonal for 21-21. In the last exchanges Grankin commits a mistake that gives the set ball to Trento, Schott cancels with a hands-out on Kaziyski and the advantages where the first partial for the Trentino is sealed by Podrascanin’s block on Patch after a defense from Danani’s applause . In the second part it starts again with the Dolomites ahead (7-4) forcing coach Enard to stop the games, but it is of little use. Because a few exchanges after the scene is repeated: the German bench calls time-out but with the score that reads 11-4 for Trentino Itas thanks to some German errors, Podrascanin’s jokes, Kaziyski’s attacks and Lisinac’s block. Schott’s ace makes Berlin breathe (12-7) at least for some exchanges, because Trento simply plays better in all the fundamentals (17-10) while the Germans fail to be as effective in putting the ball on the ground as in the first set when however the number of errors was high. Berlin breathes with three practically consecutive points from central Jendryk for 18-13, but by now Trento has such a margin (21-16) that it can go on to lead the partial without too many worries. We return to battle (8-8) at the start of the third set, where the first Trentino extension reaches 14-12 thanks to Pinali who forces the German bench to time-out. Podrascanin is blocked by Jendryk and Berlin remains in the wake (17-16), the tie comes with Schott’s hands-out for 19-19 which forces Lorenzetti to stop hostilities. In the last bars of the set the partial is decided in favor of the Trentino by Kazisyki’s block on Carle for the 23-21 with the same Bulgarian who then takes charge of the decisive balls.