In Chicago the second week of VNL for the Azzurri starts well, who found Michieletto and Lavia, but struggling not a little to close the match
The second week of Nations League, in Chicago, begins with a victory, for Italy. Italy who found Michieletto and Lavia and who struggled a lot against a quite experimental Poland. Chicago, it is said, is “the largest Polish city outside Poland”, and has felt from the preponderance of cheering. Ours left very well, especially on the wall. Fundamental decisive, they scored 17 (7 of Galassi alone), as far as they go to falling. We won it at the Tiebreak, after starting well, and then passed under 1-2 in the calculation of the sets. Up to straighten everything with opposite Rychlicki who took over from Romanò, a strong party (also good in defense) and then gradually fallen.
First set, Italy Poland 25-17
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The first set slipped on the side of Italy almost naturally. With a first strap in the form of consecutive walls of Michieletto and Romanò. With a very convincing Roman in attack, even when the Polish wall awaited him and he circumvented him (8 points for him in the partial!), And moreover also excellent in defense, at least on a couple of occasions. Then to decide everything, a very long round of Daniele Lavia was put: from 15-11 to 22-11, started with an ace and continued with a fireworks display of Muri (Galassi and Giannelli) and attacks by Romanò.
Second set, Italy Poland 23-25
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In the second, it was above all the level of attention of Poland in defense and even more in coverage. Decisive detail in a partial yarn via balance after Italy’s initial sgasata, from 2-1 to 6-2 with 4 walls in a row (from 3-1 to 6-2) of Galassi. It starts again on two services of Romanò that the Poles have content adventurously but on which we have not concretized. From 12-10 Poland has always maintained that break, those two staples. Up to the double set ball. The first canceled by the first half of Galassi, a clearly blue top-scorer of the set with 7 points. But on the second, Poland closed with the European champion Perugino Semeniuk, better than the partial with 8 points.
Third set, Italy Poland 21-25
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In the third set from the beginning the wall of Italy disappears. And with that soon also the attack from place 4. The last point from there is the 10-8 for us at Lavia, however atypical, propitiated by a beautiful fake “alla Ngapeth” by Michieletto. Then everything you feel slammed against the Polish wall, almost never developed, always, punctually to reconstruct. While on the other hand, in the entire central phase of the semieniuk set and Szalpuk they made a mockery of ours, walls, with a sequence of hands and outside that seemed both Hugo Conte of the 90s. We put a free-ball thrown away-he could have been an easy 19-16 for us, we went 18-17-and the fear had the upper hand. Two errors in a row of Romanò, and then two more by Michieletto in a partial horrible ending and 2-1 Poland.
Fourth set, Italy Poland 25-20
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We play the fourth set with Rychlicki and Botto instead of Romanò and Lavia. Continuing to struggle both on the wall and from place 4, but at least Kamil gives us much more certainty and as much continuity. After a whole set, a point of a bandwerm from his place 4 arrives, it is the 10-10 of bottu. And as if by magic we find some security. The difference, finally, makes it a turn in the batting by Giannelli from 15-13 to 17-13. And immediately after another by Michieletto, for 20-14. The set ball comes with the only wall of the set, by Giannelli. And let’s go to the tie break.
Fifth set, Italy Poland 15-11
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Where from the field change on 8-5 for us, we go quickly, at 10, with a wall of Nowak on the bottu. Who then returned the Murata to Sasak, invented an adventurous hands out to close a very excited exchange. So a Polish invasion and an ACE of Rychlicki launched us towards success.
The words of Giulito and Giannelli
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The second blue technician Nicola Giulito explained everything very well: “On the break points they worked well wall and service, not much the attack, but the important thing is to do them, the break points”. Last words for Giannelli, author of 7 points: “It was the first game with some of the guys on the field today, I am proud of how we kept hard. But we still have to work a lot”. He is right.
