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SC Potsdam in the Volleyball Champions League: extra continues to be doable
In the CEV Champions League, the volleyball gamers of SC Potsdam have been ready to show their stage.
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Potsdam. Eugen Benzel smiles and waves. Should reigning Champions League winners Vakifbank be braced for defeat against SC Potsdam, ought to 2019 title holders Igor Gorgonzola Novara additionally brace for a coup in Istanbul? “We want to expertise it this manner, however now we have to depart the village church. We loved being in Istanbul, but it surely did not make us invincible,” says the crew supervisor of the Bundesliga volleyball membership SC Potsdam. The German runner-up and Super Cup winner will proceed to sort out the Premier League season “with none strain”.
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On Tuesday, Novara will be hosted at the MBS Arena in the ultimate group match day (19.30/sportdeutschland.television). “I believe they are going to respect us,” Benzel says of the Brandenburg girls’s latest shock. Vakifbank made a sensational comeback after taking place 2-0 to SCP in Istanbul to win 3-2.
As a consequence, there may be nonetheless lots to do in Group C. In the desk, Istanbul is forward of Novara with three wins and ten factors, who’ve three wins however solely 9 factors – Potsdam with two wins and 4 factors and Red Star Belgrade with zero.
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The new scheme comes into impact from this season, as solely the first-placed groups in every of the 5 teams qualify for the quarter-finals, whereas the second and greatest third-placed teams play in the remaining three quarters. – intermediate playoff spherical finalists. The remaining 4 third-placed golf equipment proceed in the quarter-finals of the CEV Cup, the second highest European volleyball cup. The backside of the group needs to be denied worldwide standing this season.
Group victory is now not doable
While German champions MTV Stuttgart are nonetheless in rivalry for a bunch win in Group D, at the very least for SC Potsdam, it is out of the query. Everything else is theoretically doable. “But there are lots of doable situations and calculations – we’re not going to take care of that but,” says Benzel. “On Tuesday evening, when the video games are over, we will take a more in-depth take a look at the desk.” Because if SCP each lose to Novara and Belgrade to Istanbul, Potsdam will at the very least end third.
Head coach Guillermo Naranjo Hernández’s crew will not draw back from irritating the rival close to Milan as a lot as doable. The Potsdam facet misplaced 3-1 in the first leg in Italy and, with the impression that they have been taking part in in the Champions League for the first time, they have been nonetheless nervous and cautious. “The crew now is aware of the processes, has gained its first expertise at this stage and has improved fairly a bit, as proven by the 3-2 attract Belgrade and Istanbul,” explains Benzel.
“That’s why we do not have to concern Novara in our corridor, even when they’re a world crew and clear favourites.” After all, nobody is invincible, as latest SCP outcomes have impressively demonstrated.