Conegliano and Scandicci ready for quarters
Volleyball, program
Awaiting the matches that will open this evening, Tuesday, March 4, the week of European cups of the teams of the Tigotà A1 Series, è day of eve for three other formations.
After closing the regular league season undefeated, A.Carraro Imoco Conegliano is preparing for its return to a knockout stage of the CEV Champions League. The first act of the Quarterfinals of the top European competition will take place in Poland tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5 at 8:30 p.m. (live DAZN, Sky Sport Arena and NOW), with the panthers engaged in the home of Developres Rzeszow. The confrontationè a habité of the CEV Champions League from the last three seasons, with coach Santarelli s team always victorious in the previous six, including the two this season in the group stage: 1-3 away, 3-0 at home. The return is scheduled for Wednesday, March 12, also at 8:30 p.m. The team that emerges from this challenge will face the winner of the match between Milan and Eczacibasi in the first act of Final Four, scheduled in Istanbul on May 3-4.
Just over a month after the last official match of CEV Champions League which handed Savino Del Bene Scandicci the undefeated lead in its group (Pool E), Herbots and her teammates flew to Poland for the first leg match of Quarterfinals of Europe’s top club competition. The Tuscan women’s opponent will be the PGE Grot Budowlani Lodz who, after finishing Pool D in second place behind Fenerbache Istanbul, has been able to carve out its own space among the top eight teams of the tournament by virtue of the double victory in the Playoff phase against the Serbian Tent Obrenovac.
Therefore, it promises to be a challenge as complex as it is crucial for coach Gaspari’s team, both with a view to qualifying for the Final Four (scheduled in Istanbul on May 3-4) and to regain confidence in view of the imminent start of the A1 Series Playoffs.
After a convincing Regular Season finale against Scandicci and looking forward to the Playoffs, it’s also time for Igor Gorgonzola Novara è to return to European courts. Coach Bernardi s team s opponent for the CEV Cup first leg semifinal will be THY Istanbul, currently fifth in the standings in the Turkish Sultanlar Ligi. A not unprecedented confrontation given the precedent in the 2021-22 Champions League, with a 3-0 victory of the Mosquitoes in Piedmont and a 3-1 defeat in Turkey, despite a match with many absences. Then as in tomorrow s match, Hanna Orthmann will be present, but she will not be from the match having played with Novara in the competition. Other exes of the match the opposing Durul, in Novara last season, and the setter Vasilantonaki, one Italian Cup and one Super Cup with the Mosquitoes in the 2017-18 season. The first leg at PalaIgor will be played tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5 at 8 p.m. live on Sky Sport 256 and NOW, the return in Turkey on Thursday, March 13 at 12 p.m. Italian time. The winner of the series will face in the eventual final one between the Romanian team of Alba Blaj and the Polish team of Vasas Obuda Budapest.
