Cucine Lube Civitanova lost away to RANA Verona, led by Rado Stoychev, with a score of 1:3 (23:25, 25:17, 23:25, 14:25) at Pala Agsm AIM, in the 4th round of the 80th regular season of the SuperLega in Italy. After more than two hours of play, Giampaolo Medei's "red-and-whites" registered an inexplicable drop at the end of the match, after losing the first and third sets by a small margin, and taking the third set convincingly with 25:17. According to statistics, the difference in the fourth set came from Verona's attack percentage, led by the match's top scorer - Noumory Keita (62%), who also scored the winning point for his team. Keita was also named MVP of the match with 27 points scored.

For Lube, the top scorers were Bottolo (18), Yant (15), and Lagumdzija (10). New signing Marko Podrascanin contributed 8 points. Alex Nikolov entered the game but finished without a successful attack. Thus, Lube remains with 6 points in the temporary standings. The next match for Alex Nikolov and company is at home on October 27th against Cisterna.