Paola Egonu she is slowly regaining the form of her best days after the nose operation which forced her to miss the first two months of the season. Milan’s opposite team has returned to action in the last two weeks, even if it was unable to make the difference in the big Serie A1 match which it clearly lost against Conegliano. The Venetian striker will try to be a great protagonist during the next match of the Milanese team, which on Thursday 28 November they will face VakifBank Istanbul in the Champions League.
Paola Egonu will find her past againgiven that he wore the shirt of the Turkish team in the 2022-2023 season, when he dragged coach Giovanni Guidetti’s sextet towards winning the Champions League. It was the attacker’s third seal in the top continental competition after those of 2019 with Novara and 2021 with Conegliano, useful for saying goodbye to the Anatolian metropolis, leaving a good memory before settling in Milan.
Paola Egonu will aim to make the difference with pointsin order to give Vero Volley their third success in the group stage and thus climb alone to the top of group C right ahead of their rivals of the day, guaranteeing qualification for the quarter-finals. Caterina Bosetti, Zehra Gunes, Kiera Van Ryk, Derya Cebecioglu, Cansu Ozbay and Alexandra Frantti stand out among the ranks of VakifBank: the Lombard team will probably start with the underdogs.
This is not the first return to the past for Paola Egonubecause also last year Milan and VakifBank Istanbul were in the same group of the Champions League: the Italian sextet beat Spor Sarayi Salonu with a clear 3-0 and then lost the return match in the tie-break, after having already acquired the certainty of primacy in the group. And beware of the transfer sirens: in recent weeks there has been talk of a possible return of the Italian to Türkiye…
