Volleyball: Super Cup, Perugia defeats Trento and is the first finalist

Trento-Perugia 1-3 (25-20, 22-25, 23-25, 18-25)
Sir Perugia raises its head again after a terrifying season finale as it did last year. And with a great comeback performance, Lorenzetti’s team snatched the pass to the final against the winner between Civitanova and Piacenza. Perugia starts with Giannelli as director, Herrera opposite, Leon and Semeniuk hammers, Solé and Flavio central; Trento responds with Sbertoli-Rychlicki, Lavia-Michieletto, Kozamernic-Podrascanin. The two liberos are from Puglia: Laurenzano for the Trentino team and Colaci for Perugia. The Italian champion team immediately started strong in the first match in which the Umbrian coach found the team he led to the championship a few months ago as opponents. Lavia is overwhelming (71% in attack and six points in the set). Sir is slow in receiving and Lorenzetti calls Semeniuk to the bench for Plotnytskyi who scores 7 points with 70%. Herrera also comes out for Ben Tara, but when Sir finds her rhythm Soli’s team has already won the set. Leon and Herrera were on the bench at the start of the second set. Perugia is much more lucid, especially in the second line and Giannelli can distribute the game as he wishes. And Plotnytskyi and Ben Tara are leading the fight. Immediately break Perugia (pushing hard on serve) drag the group and Perugia goes to equalize. The third set is perhaps the most spectacular, there are a maximum of 2 points between one team and the other. Trento escapes, but Perugia recovers it. It reaches 21 all. Leon is also back on the pitch and he strikes Trento with his serve. Perugia takes the lead. At the beginning of the fourth set Plotnytskyi was injured and Lorenzetti sent Leon onto the court again. Point to point again. Then Perugia’s serve makes the difference and Trento slowly fades away, while Sir goes smoothly and will go on the field tomorrow to defend (from 5pm) the title won a year ago in Cagliari against Civitanova. The opponent will exit the second semi-final: Civitanova-Piacenza scheduled now.