Bcc Castellana Grotte, with Siena the penultimate housewife of the regular season
Recoveries aside, at the start next weekend in March for the national championship of Serie A2 Credem Banca of men’s volleyball: decisive weeks to define the playoff grid and the two relegations. There are five days to go to the end of the regular season, but there are only four appointments scheduled for the Bcc Castellana Grotte trained by Flavio Gulinelli that, in March, in fact, he will also have to observe his own rest shift.
It really starts Sunday 6 March 2022with first measure at 18 hours. The Emma Villas Aubay Siena, a team that currently occupies the penultimate place in the standings and will be looking for precious points to get out of the relegation quota. On the other side of the net, Bcc Castellana Grotte which will have to redeem itself from the defeat remedied in the midweek recovery in Reggio Emilia and is called to defend the third position in the standings. A delicate and crucial match for both teams, in short, in a round that also recorded the match between Cuneo and Reggio Emilia (fourth against fifth, in fact the last direct clash between the top of the class), the rest of Porto Viro (quart ‘last with 4 points ahead of Siena) and the clash between Cantù and Mondovì (two other teams involved in the battle for salvation).
The Bcc Castellana Grotte, in short, will try to conquer the first three points of this regular season finale to give substance and substance to a playoff race that, in all likelihood, will see the emergence of those who commit fewer missteps than their direct competitors.
In the first leg, in Tuscany, at the beginning of December, the intersection between Siena and Castellana ended with the victory of the Apulians for 0-3 (moreover, that of Pala Estra, remains the last away victory of New Mater). In total there are 8 precedents between the two teams for a match played twice also in Superlega: 2 wins for the Bcc (one of these in the top league, at Pala Florio in Bari), 6 for Emma Villas Aubay ( which, in practice, at Pala Grotte he never lost).
There are three, however, the ex of the meeting: on the one hand Andrea Truocchio (today at the Bcc, last year in Siena), on the other Giuseppe Ottaviani (which in the summer of 2021 took the opposite route compared to Truocchio) e Marinfranco Agrusti (middle class 1999, formed in the New Mater youth teams and for several years also in the first team roster).
Stefano Chiriatti from Lecce and Giuseppe Colucci from Matera will be the two referees. It is possible to buy the entrance tickets to the race always online from the Do It Yourself platform or at the Pala Grotte until Sunday morning. Necessary, access to the system during the match, Green Pass and FFP2 mask.
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