A2 Women today Italian Cup quarterfinals - Tonight at 20.30 only race with the semifinals at stake. In the field at the crossroads the first four of the two groups of which the Regular Season has just ended

The last day of the regular season of the two groups A and B of Serie A2, played last Sunday, decreed both the compositions of the two pools, "Promotion and" Salvation ", and the magnificent eight that will participate in the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup on Wednesday evening of A2, all scheduled at 20.30.
With the exception of the two leaders in their respective groups, many teams have torn the pass right in the last championship round.

The first classified of Group A, the Omag San Giovanni in Marignano, with 50 points collected in the league out of the 54 available and back from the victorious tie-break at home in Olbia, will host the revelation of Group B at the Palazzetto dello Sport, the Futura Volley Giovani Busto Arsizio, who with the clear external victory in Marsala, has kept the fourth and last useful position. Lucchini's team, in fact, is the only newly promoted in Serie A2 to participate in the quarterfinals, and as much as Omag will surely have the favors of the prediction, being able to play the challenge in front of the friendly public, the bustocche have shown so far that they can worry anyone, see the clear home victory over leaders Trento in December.

A2 Women today Italian Cup quarterfinals

«Until yesterday, thinking about being in the Italian Cup quarter-finals seemed an impossible goal, - comments coach Matteo Lucchini - now that we have reached them, we want to play this chance in full. We want to give everything because we know we are meeting a team of the highest level, and this stimulates us: we will test our performance against a team equipped for promotion and complete in each department, but already on other occasions we have been able to put other top in difficulty team. The Italian Cup is also part of our recent past, we are willing to try and continue to dream ».

Similar argument for the other leaders of Group B, the Delta Informatica Trentino, which has collected only one point less than Saguatti and companions, and comes from the clear victory at Mondovì, which in addition to reaffirming the record, represents a further injection of confidence for Fondriest and companions. To prove the feat of conquering the Sanbapolis on Wednesday evening - the Trentino always victorious this season within the friendly walls - will be the Itas Città Fiera Martignacco, which has gained access to the Promotion pool and access to the Cup thanks to the success of Centro Pavesi three days ago, beating Club Italia at the tie-break in an authentic direct confrontation. Among the ranks of the Friulians there will be several ex-players of the challenge: the coach of the Friulian Marco Gazzotti has coached the Delta Informatica in the first two seasons in Serie A2, while the former of the Itas setter Roberta Carraro, in Trento until last season, is very fresh ex. Absent of the challenge will be the setter Elisa Moncada.

«Martignacco is a team that boasts an excellent harmony and plays a very technical choral volleyball that also involves the central players with great continuity - explains Matteo Bertini, technician of Delta Informatica Trentino - By hitting fourth place he achieved a great goal and now he can to face this challenge with great serenity and without particular pressure. There was little time to prepare for the challenge but we are ready: it will be important to attack the opponent and impose our game, as happened in Mondovì on Sunday thanks above all to a very incisive joke. We cannot and do not want to hide, the goal is to reach the final ".

The PalaManera in Mondovì will stage the Piedmontese derby which faces the LPM BAM Mondovì and the Eurospin Ford Sara Pinerolo, both defeated in the last round of the championship at home, respectively by Trento and Talmassons, but who have maintained their own ranking positions. The women will be able to count on their warm audience for this delicate challenge, as Silvia Agostino underlines in the presentation of the challenge:

«It is certainly positive to be able to play at home such an important challenge as the Italian Cup quarter-final. We have the opportunity to make up for Sunday's lackluster performance in a short time, so this is what I hope to see, for us and for our fans who are always by our side! So I invite all the Monregalese to support us in this new battle because we also need help from the stands! ».

«As we all have only two days to make the appropriate reflections on the last regular season race, pass the attention to the Mondovì match and prepare for the race - analyzes Eurospin Coach Michele Marchiaro - But prepare it very carefully because, however much it is difficult to play away from home a dry shift, we only have this card to play and we will risk everything for this game. The goal, of course, is to go to Mondovì and put down as much as possible. We want and hunger to go on. In these weeks it would be interesting to increase the high-level clashes, it would lead us to a necessary growth for us. Mondovì is a team that we know well enough, we saw it in a friendly even if the foreigner Rodriguez was missing. The most striking thing is the physical power, the centimeters and the odds, without forgetting the hyper-aggressive interpretation of the service. From this point of view it is very similar to Talmassons, the last formation we met. They are a solid team, consolidated over the years. The free Agostino, Rebora, Tonello and Zanette are the soul of this group and together with the young and talented director Scola and the gangs Rodriguez and Tanase they make the attack their main weapon. To get out of a field like this we will have to put down a wall-defense correlation worthy of this name, without this you can hardly think of going to Mondovì and bringing home the result. We will work on this in the short time we have available ».

Ex of the challenge Viola Tonello, protagonist with the jersey of Pinerolo in B1 from 2014 to 2016.

Last, but not least, will be the quarter-final which will face Volley Soverato and Conad Olimpia Teodora Ravenna at PalaScoppa. Coach Napolitano's girls kept second place behind San Giovanni in Marignano, beating Montale 3-1 last Sunday, while Bendandi's girls came from the bad defeat of Turin with Barricalla, which however did not determine changes in the ranking , maintaining third place at the end of the regular season in group B. Ex of the challenge will be Costanza Manfredini and Ludovica Guidi, protagonists with the Soverato shirt respectively in the 2016-17 and 2018-19 seasons. Whoever wins between the two teams will clash with the winner between Trento and Martignacco.