Gas Sales Daiko PIACENZA - Sport LISBOA e Benfica

Gas Sales Daiko PIACENZA

• Also in the match against Sport Lisboa e Benfica there will be a heavy absence at Gas Sales Daiko Piacenza: spiker Yoandy Hidalgo Leal will not be in the match. He is recovering from a calf muscle injury in his right leg.
• A delegation from the red and white team visited and brought gifts to the young patients in the pediatric department of the Civil Hospital of Piacenza, a ritual that has been repeated for years around Christmas.
• During the match against Sport Lisboa e Benfica, the lottery prizes that the Red and White Wolves, organized fans of Gas Sales Daiko Piacenza, have organized and whose proceeds go to charity will be awarded.
• After the victory seven days ago against Berlin, Gas Sales Daiko Piacenza is looking for a second consecutive victory in front of its own fans, the aim of consolidating second place in the standings.
• Andrea Anastasi (Gas Sales Daiko Piacenza coach): “We are continuing our growth path and the defeat against Civitanova in the last championship match is also part of this path. It's clear that an important match awaits us, it doesn't matter if we face opponents who haven't picked up points in the Champions League up until now, we know that it's a team that plays good volleyball and demonstrated it in the first leg. We are focused on our objective which is to move forward in this event and to achieve this objective we only need to win the race that awaits us."

Sport LISBOA e Benfica

• Marcel Matz (SL Benfica coach): "We expect it to be a difficult game. Piacenza has a lot of quality and is used to high intensity games (…) We'll have to find good solutions and double and triple blocking, especially when the reception isn't good. We'll try to do better than in Turkey."