Lube after the playoff and European defeats: "Everything is still in our hands"

Lube leaves for Milan this afternoon, awaiting tomorrow a game 2 of the playoff quarterfinals that absolutely cannot be missed. At 17 pm the red and white team is called to bring the series back againstAllianz in a draw after losing the first act 2-3 on Sunday. The first stop of the season at the Eurosuole Forum that seemed inviolable, but it was a heavy one because it came just when the stakes were higher. Coming off a performance on Wednesday in Poland that was below his level for several months now, the spiker Mattia Bottolo he talks about the upcoming game 2. "In the first match the victory slipped away from us by a hair's breadth as we wasted two match points. It will be important to have a good impact from a mental point of view even more than on a technical level".

What needs to go differently to avoid finding ourselves with our backs to the wall? "Above all, understanding what didn't go well and what we need to do better. Right now we have a double commitment between Italy and Europe and to reverse the two situations we need to be good at separating them, focusing on one context at a time".

What was missing on Sunday to defeat Milan? "We had the chances to close it out but we didn't succeed, in the playoffs it's like that, it's the details that make the difference. Well done to Milan who was able to resist well in the final, especially in a couple of our service games".

Against Piazza's sextet with only one result and more pressure on them as Lagumdzija also stated? "In the playoff games, the concentration aspect is what counts. We will have to understand the moments better and it will be essential to raise the level of play in the key phases. The challenge will be tough, but we will be ready".

If you lost in game 1 by two points (the last match between the two teams, in the Italian Cup, also ended in a tie-break, but in that case Lube had prevailed), on Wednesday in Lublin the first leg of the final Challenge Cup It was less balanced. The Poles took the first act and on Wednesday 19th it will be tough in the return leg...

"It's not easy for us to deal with this reality, that is, to find ourselves behind both in the quarter-final series for the Scudetto fight and in the Challenge Cup final, but we haven't lost our conviction because everything will pass through our hands in a few days. We have time to get back on track".