Volleyball Bundesliga team SVG Lüneburg is in the final of the CEV Cup. On Wednesday, the Lower Saxony team eliminated the Turkish top team Arkas Izmir around Georg Grozer in a dramatic semi-final second leg in their own hall – in the golden set.
When Erik Röhrs hammered the last smash into the Turks’ field, there was no stopping them in the Lüneburg Hall. Röhrs sprinted up the stands as if he had been bitten by a tarantula and sank into a crowd of cheers. The 3,200 SVG volleyball fans could hardly believe their luck and celebrated their LüneHünen wildly. CEV Cup final! Very few people expected that after the first leg.
3-0 first leg defeat in Izmir
The Lüneburgers went into the second duel with Izmir with the burden of an, albeit narrow, 0:3 (25:27, 23:25, 20:25) defeat from the first leg. Only a 3-0 or 3-1 win in front of their own fans would get them into the golden set, that was already clear.
Röhrs hammers Lüneburg into the final
When the first half went to the Turks 25:17, things weren’t looking good for the fourth-place team in the Bundesliga. But after that, coach Stefan Hübner’s team turned up the heat: with 25:23, 30:28 and 25:18, the hosts won the next three sets and fought for the hoped-for golden set. This is where Lüneburg’s volleyball madness found its happy ending when Röhrs hammered the ball onto the ground to make it 15:8 for SVG.
In the final of the second highest European Cup competition after the Champions League, Lüneburg will face either Fenerbahce Istanbul or Resovia Rzeszow, who will meet in Turkey on Thursday. The Poles won the first leg 3-1.
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NDR 2 Sport | 02/28/2024 | 11:03 p.m
