The playoff final begins: Salerno Guiscards on the pitch in Naples

After many months of training, matches and victories, now it gets serious: it’s play off time for the GLS Salerno Guiscards of the president Pino D’Andrea. The regular season ended in first place in the group, captain Coral and companions Saturday afternoon, with kick-off at 7.30pmwill be on stage on the field of Volley World Naples for Game 1 of the final which is worth promotion to Serie B2. Opposite are the teams that dominated their respective groups. On the one hand, Volley World, which won all twenty scheduled matches, losing only three sets, against Arzano, Caivano e Sorrento. On the other hand, GLS Salerno Guiscards played a truly historic regular season, totaling nineteen victories against just one defeat, on the second day with 59 sets won and only 9 lost. Furthermore, GLS Salerno Guiscards was the only team in the group to always score points without ever losing away. The final series will begin on the road.

«We played a great championship – he has declared coach Paolo Cacace – always scoring points, even managing to alternate the entire staff at my disposal. Now the most difficult and important matches await us, not that the previous ones weren’t, but these against Volley World Napoli are worth a season. Game 1 is approached by taking to the field with a thousand motivations. We have it, because we all want to reach this goal together. We know we are facing a strong team but we will go there to play our match, impose our game then the pitch will express the verdict».

During this season, the two teams have already faced each other in the Campania Cup final played at the PalaBerlinguer in Bellizzi. After dominating the first set and after wasting four set points in the second set, GLS Salerno Guiscards, with many regrets, ended up defeated with a score of 3-1. SINCE that match played at the beginning of February, however, coach Cacace’s team has certainly grown a lot in terms of awareness of their abilities and has also added a Giusy Palladino more than one Giuliana of Genoa who put the injury that forced her to miss the entire first round behind her. Two more weapons for a team, united and compact, ready to write a page of history. They are well otto the precedents between the two teams, seven in the league and one in the cup. The balance is five victories for the GLS Salerno Guiscards and three successes, obtained in the last three matches played between the two teams. After Game 1 there will be no respite or respite as the calendar for this post-season is very tight.

On May 8th, kick-off at 9pm, there will be Game 2 at Senatore. On May 11th we will return to Neapolitan soil for Game 3 while the possible Game 4 would be played on May 15th in Salerno and the equally possible Game 5 on the 18th in Naples. The team that wins three of the five matches will be promoted to the Serie B2, while the loser will face the winner of the matches between the second and third placed teams of the two groups for the second place which is worth promotion. Finally, it should be remembered that the match between Volley World Napoli and GLS Salerno Guiscards will be broadcast live on the Facebook page of the Polisportiva Salerno Guiscards with connection starting at 6.45 pm.