Perugia vs Padova | Highlights | Italian Volleyball League 2025

to Panuja and we are underway and a middle attack through Sole gets it done on his resume. Sole now to serve. His team up by a point early on and now up by two. Those middles are so good. Was that Janely who actually got a hand on it? Might well have been. Plotnitsky the target of the serve and Ishikawa an absolute rocket from the outside. Here comes Plotnitsky again. Three aces already. Are you kidding? That's more than he had in the first two games and it's four in a row for this superstar. What a start. Is this out as? Oh my it is too. Oh my goodness what a start. Plotnitsky has to dive out to get this one. Here's Ishikawa goes with a little bit of a power tip over the top. Former Panuja player of his own right. Oh my Bentara from the back row. Stays on the good side. See where Ishikawa goes with this serve. His team in a pretty good comfort zone here and held it something positive going. The aim at Bentara as he comes across. Nice pickup from Toscani. Sole feels like he's been serving half the well when Plotnitsky wasn't set. They come again through Gardini and Bentara gets blocked and scores the point because it goes off the block and off the attacker. Mone Janeli. Three-time Olympian, two-time world champion. Nice job by Gardini to stave off the set for now. See if they can continue to do so. Been serving 24. Can you stave it off for another point? And on we go. Zupaladi takes it at Plotnitsky and drilled from the back row by Ishikawa. That'll do it for the opening set Philly. Let's see what they can do in the second. Yuki Ishikawa and held getting a start here in the second set. Couldn't score the blocking. Steady for Padova but the middle attack of Sebastian Sole is just too good. Of course the master Stefani is the opposite. Different look maybe than what Perugia was expecting. They're more worried about their own play and that of the likes of Plotnitsky and they shouldn't be worried about him because he is on fire. And they go through the middle again. Sole. Francesco Zupaladi. 28 year old Italian setter. He pops this ball up but nowhere near his team. Not this time. Polo pops it up. Not a system attack from Gardini. Handled by Perugia and they are on Tommaso Stefani. His third season with Padova. Oh wow look at that one-handed set and that mighty swing. Fight in the second set but needs this right now with Sebastian Sole serving. Not a great pass. Let's see if they can convert anyway. No they can't. Mishulovic has come back into the game trying to attack in a more comfortable spot. And the right side attack. Nicely done from Held. Off the block. 15 serving 20. Big serve here from Held. Middle attack. Oh they keep it up and push it over deep but a chance for Gianelli's side and they score. Gianelli. Gardini couldn't score. Still couldn't. Plutnitsky won't get a chance to swing but Ishikawa will from the back and he scores through the pipe of the block. Perugia trying to put the set away now. Overpass created from the Gianelli serve. Here comes Perugia and they've made it 23 with Loser. And really shine Loser. But Padova with Polo. Been the best middle blocker in this league seven or eight years ago won that award. And does this. Eighth of the match. Here he goes. This time. But the point won by Perugia anyway. And they take. So Masolovic got shut down here. So Polari goes with the back set and they managed to get two blocks. Padova to serve. Do they have any kind of an answer here? Good serve that is. And this is gonna go the way of Perugia. Does the point stay with Perugia? Yes. Oh nice job. Can they get a point out of this? Yes they can. Beautifully done by Stefani. But really Gianelli just on the good side of the end line. And oh Plotnitsky attacking from the back row gets shut down. They know something good when they see it. Played with Perugia last year. Middle attack. Oh almost popped up from Toscani but no. Need a good serve. Boy they sure could use an ace. Here's Held. Not yet. Great serve received. Plotnitsky comes and that's gonna score. I guess it went off the ground. He's 12. His sorry his 14th serve of the match. And that creates an overpass. Almost as good as an ace. Especially when you can follow it up with that. He gets called on twice and he's got seven aces. Nope he's got eight aces. Great home games that we've seen so many of over the years. Trujillo's serve is handled fairly well. And then Ishikawa tools it off the block of Maschulevich to score. Alberto Polo takes it at the libero. Gaggini up from Zuppellari from off the net. And got a two-point deficit. That is what Pandova is facing. Gotta think here if they score a point Perugia might just call a timeout. Not yet. Couldn't take advantage. Get another chance. And now they do take advantage. And it is a one-point game. Three games to one win in the fifth match. There you go. Went the distance. The series did but the final game did not. And Lube won that. And Perugia tipped over the net. And now he's serving. 21 serving 19. Gianelli trying to help Perugia win it in a sweep. But Pandova's got other ideas. Tomasso Stefani. Bantara couldn't finish. Another chance. Gianelli is out. So Ishikawa sets. Bantara can't score again. Zuppellari across for Gardini. And it's gonna be point scored. The Croatian opposite is in the game now for Perugia. And he scores. What a swing. And he has got his ninth ace of the match. And he's done it. He has done it and it is over. Ten aces. And stand up fans of Perugia. Your man has just scored.