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Chantal KAISER
Wojciech MAROSZEK
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA - Greenyard MAASEIK
- The vice Champions from Italy won the first leg match played in Belgium with a clear 3-0 victory.
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA comes to this match reeling from its first Pool Phase loss, suffered last week in Galati, Romania (2-3).
- However, the team coached by Gianlorenzo Blengini is already sure of first place in the Pool E standings, thanks to its 4-1 rate in the wins ratio, with only 3 sets lost. PRAGUE is currently standing at second place with a 2-3 win rate.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA is coming off a heavy defeat in the Italian League by Perugia (0-3), on a day also made sad by the passing of Fabio Balaso’s mom.
- The libero of team mentored by Gianlorenzo Blengini, as well as of the Italian national team has been replaced by young Francesco Bisotto, making his overall debut in the Italian SuperLega.
- Bisotto, born in 2002, is also set to make his debut in a European competition on Wednesday.
- GIANLORENZO BLENGINI (coach of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA): "We mandatory have to win, as we want to close the Pool stage with the certainty of being among the three best ranked leaders. This match is equally important, beyond the competition aspect, to improve our volleyball performing, for having a positive reaction after the 0-3 defeat in Perugia and show also in the Champions League that after the misstep in Galati, we know how to take the court with the right attitude and go back taking the right way."
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First RefereeChantal KAISERFRASecond RefereeWojciech MAROSZEKPOL
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18Competitions Played
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6Titles
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10Matches Played
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8Matches Won
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80%Win %
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27Sets Won
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867Points Won
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60%Attack %
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45%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1988
- Birth Place: Santa Fe
- Height: 195 cm
- Birth Date: 1998
- Birth Place: Dunkerque
- Height: 202 cm
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Skien
- Height: 198 cm
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Sarajevo
- Height: 211 cm
- Birth Date: 2001
- Birth Place: Villa Clara
- Height: 204 cm
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Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA - Greenyard MAASEIK
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA defeats Greenyard MAASEIK 3-0, solidifying their definitive lead in Pool E of the Champions League, with a 5-1 win rate.
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Instead, the Belgian team ends its campaign in the 4th Round of Europe's top club competition in third place, with 2 wins in 6 games played, the got the qualification to the next round of CEV Cup.
- The team coached by Gianlorenzo Blengini took the court without its starter Fabio Balaso: the popular libero, crowned World Champion with the Italian national team, in recent days lost his mother, so he was replaced by Francesco Bisotto, 21 years old, who after making his debut last Sunday in the Italian SuperLegue, also makes his first ever appearance in a Champions League match.
- After a balanced start (8-8), CIVITANOVA built gradually a big point difference in the first set (16-12, then 19-13) to open in their favour thanks to better performance in attack (54% of efficiency, only 38% for the guest team) as well as to the many point errors by Maaseik (11). The Italians won 25-18.
- Things did not change in the second as well as in the third sets, in which the home team outclassed their opponents in all aspects of the game. CIVITANOVA won the second 25-15, led by a great performance in attack (61% off efficiency, with Nikolov and Lagumdzija top scores (4 points). MAASEIK came back at the beginning of the third, but they could just play in balance until the 15-15. Then the home team built the decisive gap, till the final 25-19.
- Adis Lagumdzija (Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA) topped the charts for his team with 15 points, while the setter Luciano De Cecco was awarded as best player of the match.
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- LUCIANO DE CECCO (captain of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA): "We finished the Pool phase topping the stands with 5 wins, and we are very happy for this achievement. We are waiting for the drawing of lots looking with confidence to the next round of the competition."
- FULVIO BERTINI (coach of Greenyard MAASEIK): “There was a big difference tonight between the performance of the two team in the serves and reception. CIVITANOVA was in a very good shape, then it was impossible for us at their same level, as we did in the previous game against them, staged in Belgium."
The match in numbers
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The number of successful point winning blocks of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA compared to Greenyard MAASEIK.
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Errors leading to points of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA, next to those from Greenyard MAASEIK