08/03/2022 20:30

Eurosuole Forum CIVITANOVA MARCHE

78 mins

Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA – JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel

Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA

(ITA)

0 3

(22-25, 23-25, 19-25)

JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel

(POL)

A hard-fought first set, but JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel open in their favour

As many as 4 kill blocks and 3 aces are not enough for Lube in the second set

JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel don't leave any chances to the hosts and claim a 3-0 win

Jan Hadrava named MVP


Men

CEV Champions League Volley 2022 | Men

CLM 95

Quarter-Finals

Quarter-Finals

Home Matches

Head-to-Head
· Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA and JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel meet for the first time in the Champions League.
· Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA won 18 of their previous 24 Champions League matches versus teams from Poland. Earlier this season, they defeated Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE 3-2 away, but lost the reverse fixture 2-3 at home.
· Last season, Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA were eliminated by Polish side Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the quarter-finals, after losing a decisive golden set.
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won two of their previous seven Champions League encounters with Italian sides, group stage victories against Sisley TREVISO (3-1 in 2007/08) and CoprAtlantide PIACENZA (3-2 in 2009/10).
· The winner of this quarter-final tie will play Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the semi-finals.

Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
· Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA are hoping to win the Champions League for a third time, after 2001/02 (as Lube Banca Marche MACERATA) and 2019/20. They also finished on the podium in 2015/16 (3rd), 2016/17 (3rd) and 2017/18 (2nd).
· Since losing 2-3 to Zenit KAZAN in the 2017/18 final, Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA won 29 of their 32 Champions League matches (includes two awarded wins). The exceptions in that run came against Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in the 2020/21 group stage (0-3), versus Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN KOŹLE in the 2020/21 quarter-
finals (1-3) and again versus Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN KOŹLE in this season's group stage (2-3).
· Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have not lost a Champions League match in which they won the opening set since 6 December 2017, when they lost 2-3 to Sir Colussi Sicoma PERUGIA in the group stage.
· Robertlandy Simon Aties (82) is the club's leading points scorer in this season's Champions League. Only four players collected more points in the group stage this campaign.
· Simon Aties won 22 points from stuff blocks in this season's Champions League group stage, most among all players.
· Only Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE's Kamil Semeniuk (16) won more points from serves in this season's group stage than Simon Aties (14).


JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have reached beyond the Champions League group stage for the first time since 2017/18. That season, they were eliminated by Zaksa KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the Playoffs 12.
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel are hoping to reach the semi-finals for a third time in the Champions League, after 2010/11 and 2013/14. They finished fourth in 2010/11 and third in 2013/14.
· Last season, Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN KOŹLE became the first Polish team to win the Champions League. PGE Skra BELCHATOW (2011/12) and Asseco Resovia RZESZOW (2014/15) has previously finished runners-up in the competition.
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won all six of their group stage matches this season. Their only longer winning run in the Champions League was a streak of nine victories in the 2013/14 campaign.
· Jan Hadrava and Tomasz Fornal (both 68) are the club's joint-leading top scorers this Champions League season. Fornal won a team-high 14 points from stuff blocks.
· Lukasz Wisniewski (55.56%) had the fourth-best spiker efficiency of all players in the group stage this campaign.

-  For Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA this is the eleventh participation in a row to quarter-finals stage of the CEV Champions League.
-  Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA qualified to this phase after they scored the first position in Pool C, with 5 wins out of 6 games. On the other side, JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel topped the standing of Pool A with a 6-0 rate.
-  This is the first ever match between the two teams, but Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA previously played another 18 times against Polish teams in the European competition, with a 16-2 wins record.
-  On the past Saturday they lost 3-1 in Modena an important match of the Italian National League, in which CIVITANOVA is currently at the second place in the Regular Season standing.
- During the second set of the game mentioned above, the Italians lost the Cuba’s young outside hitter Marlon Yant, forced to leave the court due to an injury that will be evaluated in the next few hours. The Cucine Lube’s mentor Gianlorenzo Blengini hopes to have him available for Tuesday.
-   The home team will already have to do without Osmany Juantorena and Jiri Kovar, who have not yet recovered from their respective injuries.

"The Polish team come from a loss in the National Cup Grand Final, so we already know that a very tuff game is expecting us, as they will do their best to make up for it. Mistakes are forbidden at this stage of the competition. This time, we mandatory have to get the court well focused on the match, and make a big pressure to our opponents starting from the serves”.

Simone Anzani
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