Officials
Ivaylo IVANOV
Tudor POP
TRENTINO Itas - Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- TRENTINO Itas and Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have played eight matches against each other in the CEV Champions League. Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA lead the head-to-head W5-L3.
- TRENTINO Itas have only lost as many CEV Champions League matches against Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE (6) as versus Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA (5).
- TRENTINO Itas and Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have met in two CEV Champions League semi-finals. TRENTINO Itas advanced on both occasions: after a 3-0 victory in 2008/09 and another 3-0 triumph in 2015/16.
- Since that defeat in the 2015/16 semi-finals, Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have won all four encounters with TRENTINO Itas in the CEV Champions League: both meetings in the Playoff 6 round in 2017/18 and in the group stage in 2019/20.
- TRENTINO Itas have encountered Italian opposition in each of their last two CEV Champions League semi-finals. They advanced against Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in both 2020/21 and 2021/22.
- There will be an Italian team in the CEV Champions League final. Last season, a six-edition streak of an Italian team reaching the final was broken.
TRENTINO Itas
- TRENTINO Itas have reached the semi-finals in the CEV Champions League for the eighth time. They progressed to the final in six of their seven previous semi-finals appearances, only being eliminated by Zenit KAZAN in 2011/12.
- TRENTINO Itas have won the Champions League three times (2008/09 (as TRENTINO Volley), 2009/10 (as TRENTINO BetClic), 2010/11 (as TRENTINO BetClic), but finished runners-up three times since (2015/16, 2020/21, 2021/22).
- Only Zenit KAZAN contested (8) and won (6) more Champions League finals than TRENTINO Itas (6 played, 3 won).
- TRENTINO Itas are the only team to average two aces per set in this Champions League campaign (67 aces across 32 sets). Kamil Rychlicki (14) and Alessandro Michieletto (13) lead TRENTINO Itas in aces this season.
- Rychlicki (126) is TRENTINO Itas' leading scorer this Champions League campaign. Michieletto was last season's leading scorer for TRENTINO Itas on 113 points.
- Riccardo Sbertoli (61.19%) leads the 2023/24 CEV Champions League in setter efficiency.
- Marko Podrascanin (Trentino Itas Captain): "We know our opponents very well, in recent years we have challenged them in all kinds of events and during the season we have already beaten them twice, but obviously on Wednesday we will start completely from scratch also because we will play without Sbertoli. We must think we can try to take one step at a time towards our goal."
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA reached the CEV Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2018/19, when they won the Champions League final against Zenit KAZAN.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have progressed from three of their seven semi-finals in the CEV Champions League, including each of their last two (2017/18 and 2018/19).
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have won the first set in each of their last 14 matches in the CEV Champions League, since losing the first set against TOURS VB (3-1 victory) in the 2022/23 group stage.
- Adis Lagumdzija (134) is this season's leading Champions League scorer for Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA. Last season, Marlon Yant Herrera (141) led the Italian side in scoring.
- Three Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA players recorded at least 30 points in the quarter-final stage this season (of nine in total): Marlon Yant Herrera (35), Aleksandar Nikolov (34) and Adis Lagumdzija (30).
- Alex Nikolov (Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA): "For our team the key of this match will be to erase the last two domestic games, in which we had bad defeats, and return the good team that played a great Champions League tournament until now, with the right confidence and hunger for win. We will try to do our best with the advantage that in the rotations we won't have to force fits between Italians and foreigners, as we must in the Italian SuperLega. We want to reset and be ready. In Trento we will face a big quality team. I am sure it will be a battle and I hope very much that Cucine Lube will come out on top, as we are going to play for the qualification to the Super Final of the most important European clubs competition."
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First RefereeIvaylo IVANOVBULSecond RefereeTudor POPROU
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Team Schedule
Previous Games
| 05/05/2024 | vs. |
3 - 0 | W | Go to Match Centre |
| 21/03/2024 | vs. |
2 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 13/03/2024 | vs. |
3 - 1 | W | Go to Match Centre |
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13Competitions Played
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5Titles
- Competition
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11Matches Played
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9Matches Won
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82%Win %
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31Sets Won
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948Points Won
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53%Attack %
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58%Reception %
Team
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PODRASCANIN Marko
Middle blocker
- Birth Date: 1987
- Birth Place: Novi Sad
- Height: 204 cm
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KOZAMERNIK Jan
Middle blocker
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Ljubljana
- Height: 205 cm
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RYCHLICKI Kamil
Opposite
- Birth Date: 1996
- Birth Place: Ettelbruck
- Height: 204 cm
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LAVIA Daniele
Outside spiker
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Cariati
- Height: 200 cm
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TRENTINO Itas - Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- Mvp of the match was Alessandro Michieletto, scoring 23 personal points, with 4 aces, a block and 56% in attack.
TRENTINO Itas
- The semi final first leg of the Italian derby that will deliver a place in the Champions League final smiles on Trentino Itas. This one at the ilT quotidiano Arena the home team won the first match 3-1, taking a step toward the possible third final of the competition in the last four years, after the one in 2021 and 2022 at the end of a very hard-fought and uncertain match especially in the second half.
- Trentino Itas confirms its favorable season tradition against Civitanova: tonight's is the third win in as many meetings played with Cucine Lube, following the 3-0 win on December 10 at the Eurosuole Forum and the 3-1 home win in February.
- Trentino Itas will need to win two sets in the return match on March 21 in Civitanova to qualify for the Final.
- Today was the 17th Italian derby in European cups for Trentino Volleyball; in addition to the nine matches against Lube, there are also two with Piacenza (2017 CEV Cup quarterfinals) and six with Perugia (2021 semifinals, 2022 group stage and 2022 semifinals).
- Alessandro Michieletto (Trentino Itas player): "We were very good at getting back up after a bad second set and also thanks to a great mental strength we managed to win a very difficult match but we have not yet done anything."
- Fabio Soli (Trentino Itas Head Coach): "I thank my team because once again they showed that they were really united, helping Acquarone the best they could in his task. We put everything we had on the court. The result is just a small step but the way it was achieved matters so much."
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- LUCIANO DE CECCO: "It was close, we could have taken them to the tie break. We weren't able to take advantage of the opportunities we had, then in the last point they did well to hit the serve hard and find the line. We look forward, but now the only thing that matters is winning so we have to do our best."
- Marlon Yant Herrera (Cucine Lube Civitanova player): "It was a complicated game, they are a great team and they are very strong. We have to make fewer mistakes, taking advantage of the opportunities that are created ."
- Romano Giannini ( Cucine Lube Civitanova coach assistant): "Definitely it was a Champions League semi-final as we expected, we found a stratospheric Michieletto. Kudos to Lavia on the last line who brought confidence to his teammates. Trento won deservedly, however, we put our own spin on it. As a team we are struggling a lot both in the league and in training, tonight we had a great performance that, unfortunately, was not enough."
The match in numbers
133
Points
The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.
109
Duration
The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.
3535
Spectators
Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.
209
Match Spikes
The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.
48%
Reception Level
An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.
8-5
Net Domination
The number of successful point winning blocks of TRENTINO Itas compared to Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA.
9-5
Ace Count
TRENTINO Itas number of service aces compared to Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
44-53
Error Difference
Errors leading to points of TRENTINO Itas, next to those from Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA