NUMIA MILANO-PROSECCO DOC A.CARRARO IMOCO CONEGLIANO 3-1
(22-25| 25-19| 31-29|25-20)
Numia Vero Volley Milano: Egonu 33, Fersino, Lanier 14, Bosio 1, Pietrini ne, Piva 10, Sartori, Danesi 6, Kurtagic 11, Cagnin, Gelin ne, Miner, Modesti ne. Coach Lavarini
Prosecco DOC A.Carraro Imoco Conegliano: Wolosz 3, Gabi 18, Zhu 11, Chirichella 6, Lubian 10, De Gennaro, Haak 15, Sillah 6, Munarini ne, Adigwe 2, Daalderop 1, Fahr 2, Scognamillo, Ewert ne. Coach Santarelli
Referees: Caretti and Goitre
Attendance: 5296
Set length: 27′ – 30′ – 38′ – 27′
Notes: service errors Co 15, Mi 9; aces Co4, Mi 3, walls: Co 6, Mi 8
MVP: Egonu
Numia Vero Volley Milano-Prosecco DOC A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano is the postponement that closes the 4th day of the return of the Regular Season of Serie A1 Tigotà. In the sold out of the Allianz Cloud , two absolute big names in the Italian championship face each other, for the Panthers it is the penultimate challenge of 2025, in the Milanese away match the presence of yellow-blue fans is more than substantial – about 300 of the south curve.
Coach Daniele Santarelli relies on Wolosz in the direction and Haak opposite, Gabi and Zhu are the spikers, Chirichella and Lubian are the middles, De Gennaro is the libero. On the other hand, coach Stefano Lavarini’s Vero Volley plays with Bosio, Egonu, Lanier, Piva, Danesi, Kurtagic and libero Fersino.
Rocket start of the Panthers, Zhu repels the home attack and writes 2-7 on the score of the first set: Chirichella enters the match (4-10), Lubian is a giant in the front line even at the block (8-13, 5 points with 100% offensive and 2 blocks for the middle). Wolosz and her teammates do not lose their cool on the return of Milan, Daalderop enters and Gabi closes a very lively exchange (15-19): Adigwe enters to sting the serve, Fahr gives depth to the first line, at 22-25 comes the 0-1.
At the beginning of the second set, Vero Volley takes a considerable advantage at the start, De Gennaro leads a defense that regains control of the court, Chirichella finds the ace and Gabi the parity (8-8, one of the 4 points of his partial, 18 at the end for the carioca). Daalderop returns to the match and fixes the winning serve of the 16 even , in the final the Panthers lose rhythm and Milan has the right verve to put things right, winning the set at 25-19.
After an initial disadvantage in the third set coach Santarelli launches Sillah, Wolosz enters the scoreboard with a touch of prestige of the second (10-9), the Slovenian takes advantage of the hands of the wall to score the first of her match (15-14). It is Gabi’s point of the first advantage of the yellow-blue “rosée” in the third set (17-18), Sillah scores with the pipe for 19-21 (impact from 5 points in the partial for the number 23): Adigwe and Daalderop guarantee a clean serve, it goes beyond 25, the Panthers cancel 5 opponent set points, but after a very long arm wrestling the hosts close on 31-29.
Chirichella adds a block to the collection at the beginning of the fourth set (3-3), Adigwe concedes some rest exchanges to Haak (10-8), Zhu returns to the set scoring the point of 12-9. It is the blue opposite to sign the 17-12, the Panthers try to stay in the wake even when the match seems to be on its way to sunset: Fahr places the first point on her return from injury (20-15), Zhu sees herself in place 4 and from the block (23-19, double digits for the Chinese with 11 points), but Milan controls until the end and wins the match 3-1.
The 2025 of Prosecco DOC ends on Tuesday 30 December at Palaverde, at 8 pm there is the confrontation against Bergamo which is worth the quarter-final of the Coppa Italia Frecciarossa. On Sunday 4 January, with kick-off at 6 pm, the Panthers host Novara: for both matches the pre-sale is already active, tickets available online on the Vivaticket.com website.
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(photo Rubin-LVF)