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Unfortunally I couldn't see the match yesterday evening (when I was home it had already finished, and honestly I was surprised because I expect it to be a long "fight"!)...
I thought that probably Macerata will win, but not 3-0 and with this score!
I'm a little be disappointed with Treviso, what's the meaning of give such a great proof in the last to macthes, and don't belive in the chance of getting the semifinal...

Happy that Berruto preferred Conte to Martino.

Yes, I hope I'll stay in Macerata...

What about the coaches?

Riad Ribeiro from Trentino to XRJ (I'm not sure that's the right name, I mean the nwe brazilian team of Rio!), with Marlon, probably Dante (waiting for the Russian season to end), Rodrigao, Theo...

Probably Raphael will leave Trento, for Minas (ex Marlon team) or for Zenit. In that case, probably Travica will be next Trento's setter. Because he is italian and Juantorena will play as italian the next season, and considering the fact of Riad, that means Trento can think about new foreing MBs...
(I also heard about Vermiglio to Zenit, or Travica to Macerata... btw, probably something will happen with the setters!)

Della Lunga will stay in Trento for three season (2014).

my god, your a totally right Zyta!! I'm so impressed, in Italy it's rare seeing a so huge use of the MB in attack and a so reduced use of the OH! Bruno really deserves to be twice the MVP, I can't belive he can play in this way with the MBs after... 2 weeks and few days!! Amazing. I can't avoid thinking that with Esko - a really good setter - they wouldn't play like this.
And when Kooistra is "in the match" thanks to Bruno that often set to him, he also serves better!

At the end Bruno said (about Trento) "I'm not here for holidays! I'm here to win! I can't wait to play against another team here in Italy, and this is not not a normal team but the best in the world! It will be nice playing against other brazilian like Riad and expecially Raphael, and againt players like Kaiyziski and Juantorena, that for me now is the best player in the world with Murilo!"

and the commentator asked to Creus "How many dinners do you have to offer to Bruno?"
he smiled "A lot"=)

I bet about Wout too=), but I didn't heard about Nikolov! That's a pity!!! (I remember reading he and Grbic will stay this year when I read about Parodi and Henno contract for the next season)

Btw, Raphael will probably left Trento (for Minas or Zenit, apparently...), he has a meeting with Mosna next week. I hope he won't leave Trento, I love this player! And Trento next choice as setter is supposed to be Travica (his contract with Monza ends this season). So, with an italian setter and Juantorena that is going to be considered italian on the court, they will have more chance for a foreing MB (also considering that Riad sign for the new Brasilian team from Rio)...

Fefè De giorgi said that if Macerata will serve (and of course play) well, probably they have more possibility to win the match; and about Monza and Modena, he belive that may be Modena is a little bit favourite because Bruno is playing very good with the MBs...

He also said that during play off have a week to rest (like Cuneo and Trento) when the other team is still playing can be not a real advantage, because actually the team that played more is in "match rytm" and is used to play every 3 days.

That's true, but I think that Cuneo actually needs this time to get used to their new arrangement, and to let Wijsman find his best condiction again. after the 3rd match he said that is ankle still hurt, and that he had to play with painkillers

ah, there are few rumors about an argument between Vermiglio and Martino yesterday after the match, and seems that Berruto kept the team in the changing room for 1 hour...

I didn't know he was a setter! Juantorena too... So, we can hope that Zaytsev will become a champions too!

Zyta, you read my mindXD
I thought almost the same, but I wasn't sure about Volkov permanence in Cuneo? I'm glad to hear I'll staying! Who is staying too? Parodi, Grbic, Henno, Nikolov (of that I'm sure or quite sure), I guess Wijsman and Mastro?
I'd like to see Baranowicz come to Cuneo too, but probably he wouldn't have enough opportunity with Grbic...

Della Lunga will stay in Trento until 2014, I was quite surprise for this long contract because he can easily play as titoular (is it correct?) in a lot of A1 team, instead it's hard that the same can happen in Trento, with Kazyiski and Juantorena... but I can understand he likes to keep winningXD!!

ouch...

ahahahXD

Savani played as second OH (the one not close to the setter, we call it "S2"), if I'm not wrong... that surprised me!
Too bad that Macerata can't count on Martino, but fortunally Conte played a good match.
Fei was really great, instead Omrcen is quite far from his best condition (he was blocked too may times...). And probably Vermiglio should use a little bit more his MBs...

Better for Cuneo that the serie hasn't ended yet?

@Oli4: really Cuneo wants Verhees? Who will him replace?

wow, first of all compliments!! second, really interesting machine! That's the one they use to misure the high of players'hittin jump, I guess... This sporting centre seems to be really good! It's huge and with so many people!

May be Portuondo'll come back to Rome!!=)
I hope Poey will be back too, even if he let me down when he suddenly left the team (when the team really needed him...)

wonderful! so nice how tou "presented" the "masters of pipe" at the beginning of the movie! The music fits perfect, all the players that deserve to be considered are in the movie! I hope Zaytsev will be considered a master of pipe too, one day=) edit: kevinpsp, I agree, Robert Horstink is really good too^^

ahahahXD

I'm sure there are a lot of exemple, but for me It was the first time I saw a match with these statistics?
But I was surprised not for the MBs' score itself, (In italy doesn't happen often that a MB scored 15, but happens!), but considering this AND the fact that all the OHs scored just 10 =) (usally in Italy when that happens it means that the team lost the matchXD)

btw, tomorrow: Sisley vs Lube at Palaverde, Treviso. Any prediction?
I think that probably the best Macerata is stronger than the best Sisley, but will Macerata play on his higest level (expecially in serve)?

In effect, I don't=)
(about CSKA, how is Portuondo?)

Michal, you're right, in fact Molteni (and everyone) said the same thing ad the end of the match. they trust in the "home-factor", as Modena did. =)

(also Giuliani after the 1st match, when someone commented that all the teams in higher position in the regoular season won, answered "in these 1st matches won the teams with the home-factor")

this one will be the 6th match in a row with this two teams!!
Kooistra played an excellent match, and Bruno probably wanted to demonstrate us that he is brilliantXD. Really brilliant, considering he seems to know his players very well (but are just 2 weeks!), and considering his age.
Looking at the result, Diaz scored 3, Casoli 2, Berenzhko 5, Dennis 15, Creus 13 and Kooistra 15, like the opposite!! I've never seen a match where the MBs scored 18 points more than the OHs!!

ah, raylight, now I understood what you wanted to say! sorry I misunderstood your first post! Dennis is an excellent player too, I think...

But honestly I belive that right now Trento can beat both Modena and Monza (probably in 3 matches only, if they'll play always at their usual level), so I don't think it's a big deal if Modena will join the semifinal?, even if I'm not so sure that Modena is stronger tha Monza...I'll probably say the opposite. But they are both a little bit "moony"XD - sometimes they did amazing things, sometimes a lot of mistakes in a row - so it's hard to make a prediction...