Midweek derby for Paola Egonu
Paola Egonu in Cremona
L’Allianz Vero Volley Milano after the home victory against Roma in the fifth set, è immediately ready to return to the court for the tenth day of the return of Serie A1 Tigotà. Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 6 at 8:30 p.m. (live TV Volleyballworld.it), the team coached by Marco Gaspari will challenge Trasportipesanti Casalmaggiore.
For Orro and her teammates, coming off two consecutive league victories against Pinerolo and Rome, it will once again be an opportunity to try to secure the second position in the standings, which sees Gaspari’s girls share 53 points tied with Novara. It will be the 22nd confrontation in history between the two teams, with the balance leaning clearly in favor of the meneghine thanks to 15 victories.
Milan, on the other hand, will find before it the fierce Cremonese team, currently in 10th place in the standings. The Trasportipesanti, in the last round of the championship, suffered a defeat on the court of the undefeated Conegliano 0-3.
From a statistical point of view, Vero Volleyball will be able to count on the solid reception of Dominican libero Brenda Castillo, currently ranked first in the “top receivers” of the league with an excellent 47.80% perfect receptions.
Milan also leads the ranking of “best spikers” thanks to Paola Egonu, alone at the top with 459, tailed by Novara’s Russian Akimova with 429 balls put on the ground and Scandicci’s Ekaterina Antropova, third with 403 points scored. Turning to Casalmaggiore, again looking at the stats, the Cremonese will rely on their accuracy on serve to improve their correlation as well; in fact, Casalmaggiore è currently ranks second among the “Top acers” teams with as many as 126 aces made, behind only Conegliano. As many as three athletes in the top ten “best acers” Micha Hancock sixth (28), Lohuis Juliet seventh (25) and Linda Manfredini tenth (23).
Numerous former players of the match on both sides; in Casalmaggiore’s ranks are U.S. setter Hancock (seen in Vero Volley jersey for two seasons between 2017 and 2019) and opposite Obassa, starring on the Brianza court for three non-consecutive seasons between 2019 and 2023. In Casalmaggiore jersey, however, only one year for Kara Bajema (2020/2021) and two for Adhu Malual (2021/2022, 2022/2023). Two years on the Casalmaggiore bench also for Marco Gaspari: the coach from Ancona led the Cremonese team in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020).
