The club’s European champions have found their way to a very difficult group C, where they play against the Italian, Russian Lokomotiv Novosibirsk and Slovenian Maribor. After four games, Gheorghe Cretu’s volleyball players have 10 points and are getting closer to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Some three ZAKSA points in Slovenia. The LM quarter-final is getting closer
OK Maribor did not turn out to be a difficult rival for the Polish team on Tuesday. The Slovenes have not yet won a single set in this edition of the Champions League and have not managed to break it also in the match against. In each of the won games, the Polish runners-up quickly gained a few-point advantage and were able to bring it to the very end. They won the next sets very confidently – until 19, 11 and 21 and they won 3-0 throughout the game.
On the side of ZAKSA, the best player was who scored 16 points.
The Polish runners-up with 10 points are second in group C, losing a point to the leading Cucine Lube. For the quarter-finals to which the team from Kędzierzyn-Koźle still need two or three points, ZAKSA will fight away – on Saturday, February 12 with Lokomotiv Novosibirsk (the match was originally to be played in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, thanks to the substitution, ZAKSA avoided a quarantine forfeit) and on Wednesday February 16 with Cucine Lube Civitanova.
Earlier, another Polish team, Jastrzębski Węgiel, secured their promotion to the quarter-finals, after the Polish champions won all four matches so far in group A without losing a set.
Source: Sport
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