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Trento-Macerata 3-2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOBTG8PyNEk&feature=feedu
I'll upload it on the site?

I'm crossing my finger for Lube - first of all - Cuneo and Trento ?
IMO they all can - with others teams like Zenit and SKRA - aim for the final4, but there is the risk that there will be an "italian" match before the semifinal... And Macerata has a tough pool...

Which are the teams that asked to host the final4? It's already known? Or they necessary need to wait for the pools-phase to end?

Results:

Pool A
Arkas Izmir - CSKA Sofia 3-1
Iraklis Salonicco - Noliko Maaseik 3-2

Pool B
Euphony Asse-Lennik - Remat Zalau 3-2
Zenit Kazan - Vfb Friedrichshafen 3-0

Pool C
Trentino PlanetWin365 - Cai Teruel
Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle - Partizan Termoelektro Belgrado 3-1

Pool D
Generali Unterhaching - Bre Banca Cuneo 1-3
Jihostroj Ceske Budejovice - Stade Poitevin Poitiers 1-3

Pool E
Hypo Tirol Innsbruck - Fenerbahce Istanbul
Lube B.M. Macerata - Lokomotiv Novosibirsk

Pool F
Budvanska Rivijera Budva - Pge Skra Belchatow
Tours VB - Ach Volley Ljubljana

Your guess about who will pass the pools?
Mine:
A. Iraklis and Maaseik
B. Zenit and Vfb
C. Zaksa and... mmm... hard one ?
D. Cuneo and Poitiers
E. Hard (for real ?... Macerata and Novosibirsk
F. Skra and Tour VB

Oh, now I realized that also the best third will pass... Uhm...

Well, for the World Cup Fei is back on the list... But I wanna believe in Sabbi too, also Zaytsev didn't start at 100% last year (his first season in A1 as OH, after only 2 years playing as OH), but then he became the soul and the "weapon" of the team, expecially since Cisolla and then also Poey stopped playing ?

I'm waiting for Cuneo chemistry to be back too?

yes, Macerata won over the aliens, but tired aliens. I think that now Trento is still stronger than Macerata,it's more organized; but considering that Macerata changed a lot and Trento only 1 MB (and what MB!) in the starting six (or better seven, or even better eight if we count also Colaci! ), may be Macerata can improve more than Trento... (also the coach!!)
(and they still have Sokolov, Zygadlo and Della Lunga that are very important subs for Trento)

ps: Sokolov had fingers problems, so he couldn't play

Hard to explain, they didn't seem to have a great squad chemistry, relation...

It's only me, or also others have problem with sportube (strange change of cuoulors, missing audio smtime...)? Very annoying =.=

Well, I'm sooo glad that Macerata won! yuppieee! ? As others said, I think Macerata is Trento main opponents! But it's true that Modena seems to be in excellent shape. Cuneo has a very nice roster, but if their chemistry is the one they showed vs Latina .. :S

@pearl, yes, I'm from Roma, this evening I watch the match in a local tv and I'm so proud of my guys!!! Very nice match, they've never stop believing they could win (24-21,24-24,25-24,26-25,27-26,27-29 in the first set!! And not with Vibo help, exept the last spike-error by Nikolov), they defended very well and kept alive a lot of difficult ball, they served well (Lebl with his horrible float serve: no errors, 1 half ace on Cernic -priceless!- one ace!), blocked well (in the 3rd set very well!), great match by Ivan (78% in attack, he saved like 3 Vibo set point in the first set, nice serve, nice block, nice reception), and Sabbi played very well too, 62% in attack and good match overall (serve, block, also simply the way he stayed on court). Paparoni, how the hell a missed him!!!! ? Good double changes Bencz-Paolucci (they both helped the team), good Bjelica finally, helpful and experienced Cisolla (he played titoular) etc... I'm so glad! ?

I saw Kooy stats, amazing, now I got why bagnoli wanted Martino: to force Kooy to proove every match that he deserves to be on court ?

Vibo-Roma 0-3
Ravenna-Monza 1-3
Modena-Piacenza 3-0
Verona-Padova 3-2
Belluno-San Giustino 3-0

yesterday: Cuneo-Latina 3-2

tomorrw: Trento-Macerata

Yeees Roma won!!! I'm so glad, I can't wait to watch the match ?

Modena is impressive! Tomorrow they have a chance to be alone at the top of the classific! I expected it would have been more difficult for them to win.

I was surprised about Belluno-San Giustino, I expected at least a longer match, probably also a victory by San Giustino.

Padova collapsed at the end of the match, but it's fair that Verona won, even simply because of Gasparini 11 aces (!!!!! new record!!!!!! poor Sava xD)

Ravenna-Monza ended as I expected ?

As far as I understood both Yosifov and Piscopo will be stopped for a while, infact Modena hired Nemec until the WC pause...

Kovar (Macerata), Paparoni (Roma), Farina (Belluno), Martino (Modena), will be able to play, finally.

oh, the match Belluno-Vibo was the longest match in serieA1 with RPSystem, like 2:40 h!!

Today Rai will trasmitt Verona-Padova at 17.30; tomorrow evening at 20.00 Trento will play s Macerata (sportube will trasmitt the match)

other matches:
Belluno-San Giustino
Vibo-Roma (:S)
Modena-Piacenza
Ravenna-Monza (again argentinian vs argentinian ?, this time it will be Quiroga vs De Cecco)

Cuneo-Latina 3-2

Latina is defintly more interesting than I though it would be, Prandi is doing a nice job imo.

On the other hand, the chemistry I loved in Cuneo is gone, at least for now. They are strong, but... I don't know... The are also quite boring in a cartain way...

Totally agree with bitka, and remember that nobody force you to watch that matches, so I really can't see the point, considering that I'm sure that soon or later there will be somone that will apreciate that upload. Even if it will be only one person, it will be a worthy work imo.

Time, and may be a better setter ?
The trio Bartman-Kubiac-Lasko is great *.*

Voices about Milushev from Castellana Grotte (A2) (that, BTW, fired Monti - Monza coaches last year - to hire Di Pinto - Vibo coach last year) to San Giustino.
I don't know nothing about Poey... (who actually trained with them last week)

My dream final!!!

Trento still unbeaten from the first match they played in the first CWCh, and with the chance to be the first team that will win this competition for the third time! (and in a row!)

Congrats to them, and to JW of course, I'm so glad they made it ?

Zyta, it's still on sportube (channel 1, I think). You can find the match directly from the bottom of legavolley homepage?

I'll add the others result soon or later ?

Insane!!

Macerata-Piacenza 3-1

Nice to see Zlato back, but also Penchev on court?

Now Macerata is leading with 9 points and only Modena has a chance to get them tomorrow ?