The Berlin Volleys have opened the door to the quarter-finals in the Champions League. The German volleyball champion won the qualifying first leg against title holders Tours VB.
The Berlin Volleys have opened the door to the quarter-finals in the Champions League. The German volleyball champion won the qualifying first leg for the round of the last eight teams against the French title holders Tours VB on Wednesday at home after a good performance with 3:1 (25:17, 20:25, 25:13, 25:22). . The second leg will take place on February 8th in Tours. Whoever prevails will face Itas Trentino, the leaders of Italy’s Serie A, in the quarterfinals.
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The BR Volleys and SC Potsdam are in the round of 16 of the Champions League. The Berlin model volleyball club had a taste of group victory – for the Brandenburg women, this success is even historic. By Toni Lukicmore
Berliner with good block defense
In front of 4,387 spectators in the Max-Schmeling-Halle, team captain Ruben Schott was the outstanding player for the winner. In the end he also converted the second match point for his team.
The first set was evenly balanced until 15:15. But then the volleys broke away, not least thanks to their good block defense. Marek Sotola took the point to 18:15, Nehemiah Mote followed with an ace to 19:15. This lead gave the hosts the security to clearly win this round.
Dominate at will
The Bundesliga leaders also put up with the lost second half of the game well. A series of serves from Schott quickly got the team back on track at the start of the third set at 8:2.
The Berliners dominated the game at will in this phase. In the last round, Tours struggled again to turn things around and was only behind by one break for a long time. But a point from Nehemiah Mote to make it 21:18 finally set the course in favor of the Berliners.
Broadcast: rbb24, January 31, 2024, 9:45 p.m
