TRENTINO Itas - Asseco Resovia RZESZÓW

• At the ilT quotidiano Arena in Trento on Wednesday, January 17, the sixth and final round of Pool B of the 2024 CEV Champions League will be played, featuring a challenge between first-ranked Trentino Itas and third-ranked Asseco Resovia Rzeszow.
• Trentino Itas, still with full points and the only undefeated team in Pool B, will host the Poles to end their journey in the Main Phase without defeat.
• Asseco Resovia played their last match in Trento 14 years ago. Giampaolo Medea's team will enter this match with great ambitions. After the last loss in Tours, the Rzeszów team wants to show good play and win against the higher-ranked Trentino Itas.
• Jakub Kochanowski will not play in the match due to an injury. He will be replaced by a player from Asseco Resovia's youth team.

TRENTINO Itas

• Trentino Itas comes to this match strong of its top ranking in the SuperLega as well and is currently the team with the best ranking among the first-place finishers in the Champions League group stage.
• A win with any result against Asseco Resovia would allow it to become the No. 1 seed in the Final Table of the 2024 CEV Champions League Play Offs.
• Having already won Pool B with one round to spare, Trentino Itas is already certain of qualifying to the quarterfinals.
• Considering all European competitions played, Trentino Volley has so far taken the court for 168 official matches: the record is 134 victories (68 in Trento, 66 away) and 34 defeats (28 in Champions League, 5 in CEV and 1 in Top Teams Cup).
• The most frequently achieved result is 3-0, in 48% of cases (81 matches, 48 of them at home); the one that occurred the least number of times is the 0-3 defeat (eight times).
• Taking into account also the ten participations in the Club World Cup (between 2009 and 2014 and then in 2016, 2018 and 2021), there are 214 international matches played by the Club from via Trener: 135 away, 79 in Trento.
• Trentino Itas will take the court for the first home game of the 2024 CEV Champions calendar year with a full roster.
• Compared to the previous week's game, opposite player Nelli and middle blocker D'Heer have also recovered.
• Marko Podrascanin (Trentino Itas player): "Our path in the Champions League has been perfect so far, but we cannot look back because we absolutely need another win to get the best possible ranking ahead of the Playoffs. We will play giving our best as always to overcome a team like Rzeszow that will do the same."
• Fabio Soli (Trentino Itas Head Coach): "The beauty and the difficulty of this competition is that there are no predictable matches, because the access criteria to the Playoffs table impose even to the teams already qualified for the quarters, like ours, to always and in any case seek the best possible result . Beyond the ranking logics, we want to offer another high-level performance to continue our growth process and to consolidate the certainties of the game that we showed in the first five European matches of our season. Resovia is a very good team, which has a very high individual quality and can still qualify for the Playoffs: I am sure they will take the court to give their best, as they did in the first match.

Asseco Resovia RZESZÓW

• Asseco Resovia returns to Trento for the first time almost 14 years after the only previous occasion: on March 3, 2010, the first leg of Playoffs 6 was played in Trentino Volley’s arena and the hosts won 3-0.
• A total of four matches have been played against each other by the two teams, all won by Trentino Itas (3 in Champions League and 1 in Fivb Club World Championship 2018).
• Alfredo MARTILOTTI (Asseco Resovia RZESZÓW): "I'm excited to play against the Italian team. This is the first time since I live abroad. I am very happy and excited at the same time thinking about this match. Unfortunately, at the moment our situation is not what we expected. The importance of this match is certainly lower than we expected at the beginning, but it is there. A victory against the current Italian champion would be very nice for us. (...)
  There are a few players I know from previous teams - Podrascanin and of course Kozamernik, who has been with us for the last two seasons. I consider them friends. There are also two boys from my hometown. (...) Also Lavia and Laurenzano are from my city, so I can say that I have four out of seven friends on this team, not just opponents. I know them very well and I will definitely try to pass on their characteristic moves to our players. (...) We certainly have less pressure now than in last match, so I think we can play a very good match."