Civitanova-Trento, precedent rewards marchigiani, not trend

Civitanova-Trento, precedents reward the red-and-whites, not the trend

Back to the court

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The 2024 CEV Champions League semifinal return match of the 2024 CEV Champions League – the last round before the May 4/5 Final (at a venue yet to be made official) – will be played Thursday at the Eurosuole Forum in Civitanova Marche. Trentino Itas will be on stage on the court of Cucine Lube, already beaten 3-1 in the first leg, to try to win the qualification.

Tons of history

Cucine Lube è the opponent that Trentino Volleyball has faced the most times: 98 times, with a 53-45 balance in favor of the Marches, but in the current season the trend è all yellowoblù thanks to three victories in as many matches played: two in the SuperLega (3-0 on Dec. 3 at the’Eurosuole Forum and 3-1 on Feb. 14 at the ilT quotidiano Arena) and one in the Champions League first leg match (3-1 with partials of 25-17, 16-25, 25-18, 25-23).

Now è a constant

The’pairing in the semifinals of a competition precisely against Civitanova è has now become a constant, even in the international arena; in total Trentino Volleyball and Cucine Lube already have twelve semifinal challenges behind them, distributed in this manner: once in the Club World Cup (2021), three in the Champions League (2009, 2016 and 2024), four in the Play Off Scudetto (2010, 2019, 2021, 2022), three in the Coppa Italia (2016, 2019 and 2020) and one in the Italian Super Cup (2020). The Gialloblù è tally of four round passes and seven eliminations.

Whatì in the Marche

The club from via Trener è managed to prevail in thirteen of the forty-two games played at the home of the opponents, expelling the’Eurosuole Forum in four of the last eleven circumstances, taking into account also the victories in the Play Offs of March 28, 2021 and April 14, 2022 and the one related to the previous regular season (January 21, 2023).