Allianz Milan, immediate redemption: Cuneo ko in four sets

After the clear knockout against Itas Trentino, Allianz Milano immediately regained the three points against Cuneo, beaten 3-1 in the SuperLega midweek round postponement. Allianz Milano thundered off to a start and surprised Ma Acqua S.Bernardo, who, however, responded to the Meneghino drop in the third set in a big way, closed the partial and another match was born. In the fourth set, however, it was again coach Piazza’s men who signed the decisive break and the hosts did not return. Three golden points then for Allianz after last Sunday’s passing gap against the Italian champions and also in view of Sunday’s game at 6 p.m. at Allianz Cloud when the leader Perugia will arrive.

Luca Giorgetti

President Lucio Fusaro’s team is now in sixth place paired with Modena with 17 points and 4th place Piacenza is +2. The Piedmontese, on the other hand, remain stuck at 9 points, in 8th place in the standings. As for the numbers, Allianz Milano attacks significantly better than Cuneo, in the first two sets even doubling the Piedmontese percentages. The Milanese wall is also good, the serving is good, but it is far from the number of aces made against Cisterna and Grottazzolina. Captain Reggers again surpasses Nikolov in the tournament bomber rankings and takes another Mvp trophy.

“We knew it would not be easy to play here against Cuneo, that it would be a tough challenge, here is the center of volleyball, people live for volleyball and you can feel that when you are on the court – the words of Reggers -. We faced two sets in a nice aggressive way, then in the third we made a few too many mistakes and they got right back into the match. Fortunately in the third we recovered well and I think we played the last partial very well. Now we have other important challenges ahead of us, in the championship we will first find Perugia at home and then Civitanova away. It won”t be easy to play against the first ones in the standings, however, we always go full fire at home and I am sure that a good game” will come out.

“Against Trento we had lacked some energy and courage, instead tonight we had a lot of energy to put on the court – added Tatsunori Otsuka, second best scorer for Allianz Milano, to the microphones of Rai Sport after the game -. I like to play with coach Roberto Piazza’s system of play, with a lot of defense, the wall, cover play and replaying balls, a bit like we do in the Japanese national team. My role models of players I take inspiration from are on the one hand Semeniuk, I really like how he attacks the high ball and on the other hand the captain of my Japan Yuki Ishikawa, he has been in Italy for eleven years already and it shows”.