Allianz MTV STUTTGART - PGE Rysice  RZESZÓW

• Rzeszów has won the first meeting in the tie-break this season.

Allianz MTV STUTTGART

• Stuttgart has started the new year with a convincing 3:0 victory over Suhl.
• Before Christmas, Stuttgarts long serving coach Tore Aleksandersen has passed away due to his illness (cancer).
• Vera Mulder is out with a knee injury.
• Stuttgart has reached the cup-final with a win at Dresden.
• They will play Champions-League-participant Potsdam in March.
• For the first time of the season, Stuttgart is the VBL-leader.
• Stuttgart needs a win to regain the possibility of escaping the group stage.
• In their last Champions League campaign (2022/2023), Stuttgart topped Champions League Pool D, after just losing at Fenerbahce Istanbul.
• It is Stuttgart’s sixth attendance in the Champions League.
• Biggest achievement in international club volley: quarterfinal Champions League 2019/2020 against Imoco Volley Conegliano, quarterfinal Champions League 2022/2023 against Novara and runner-up in CEV Cup 2021/2022 against Eczacibasi Istanbul.
• Last season, they came up short in the Quarterfinal after losing to Novara in two games.
• In the last CL-Campaign of Stuttgart in 2022/2023, Krystal Rivers was Stuttgart’s leading scorer (131).
• Maria Segura Palleres (#3): “This game is really important, we are going to fight for the next round as a team. We want to give everything for it. For sure, playing at home is going to give us an advantage, in this amazing atmosphere.”
• Konstantin Bitter (headcoach): “We will play against a top team of the Polish league. We will face a team with high intelligence and physicality, they will come prepared. But we want to advance to the next round. We are prepared and will give everything to win this game in front of our amazing crowd.”

PGE Rysice  RZESZÓW

• PGE is making their fifth appearance in the Champions-League.
• They have met Schwerin ,German League rivals of Stuttgart, already in the group stage.
• RZESZÓW have reached the quarterfinals equally to Allianz MTV last year.
• Daniele Santarelli (headcoach): "We started our Champions League season well last week with a win against Beveren, but now it's time to get serious because the away match in Stuttgart is one of the most difficult obstacles in this group. My team is on a good winning streak. I have all the players available and so far the results have been very good. Winning helps to work better, but we must never lose our focus because well-equipped opponents like Stuttgart can put us in difficulty if we don't give our best.”