The traditional Boxing Day match is upon us. One of the most anticipated races of the season arrives under the Christmas tree, at the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome. Thursday 26 December, at 5.00 pm, on the second day of the second round of the Italian Serie A1 Women's Championship, SMI Roma Volley will receive the very strong Numia Vero Volley Milano, fresh from the prestigious third place achieved at the Club World Cup in China after having surrendered in the semi-final to the world champions of Conegliano. This is the fifth match between the two teams, with the four previous matches all won by the Milanese team, who have recovered Egonu from the first leg, the spearhead of a starting sextet made up of many stars who were protagonists in the last edition of the Olympic Games Summer, like the Italian Orro, Sylla and Danesi, the Dutch Daalderop, the Serbian Kurtagic and the Japanese Fukudome. In the Giallorossi home, even with the awareness that it will not be easy to keep up with a battleship that up until now has always scored points away from home, there is a desire to give continuity to the excellent performance of last Sunday, when the Capitolines imposed themselves , in a fundamental match for the ranking, 3-1 over Talmassons in Latisana. Coach Cuccarini's team will try to bid farewell to 2024 in the best possible way, which brought with it two goals that had been missing in the capital for over twenty years: qualification for the Scudetto playoffs last season played as newly promoted teams and the pass for a European competition (the first leg of the CEV Challenge Cup quarter-finals in Belgium against Charleroi will be held on Tuesday 7 January) following the victory of the WEVZA Cup, the first trophy won by the Club at international level continental.
Giorgia Zannoni (libero SMI Roma Volley): “It will be a difficult match because Milan is one of the strongest teams both nationally and worldwide. We will take to the pitch with a great desire to express our game and entertain our fans. We will do our best to ensure that our fans, who we expect in large numbers at the stadium, are proud of us.”
