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Champions League 2015/16 - Road to Final Four
We've seen some amazing matches in the champions league this year. Incredible actions big wins and also some bad loses. The best teams qualified for the final stage in Krakow. The host of this year is Asseco Resovia RZESZÓW. They will play the first semi final against the winners of the last champions league Zenit Kazan. This match will be a very interesting match because this was also the final of last year. Zenit Kazan won the match with 3 against 0, Wilfredo Leon was on fire.
The other Semi Final is Trentino Diatec against Cucine Lube Civitanova. These two italian teams have a lot of Champions league History. Trentino won the champions league three times in a row, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Under head coach stoychev they were undefeatable. These where the years of Matey Kazyiski and Osman Juantorena. The last player plays now at Lube Civitanova and is still a very important player. Cucine Lube Civitanova is the winner of the poule fase in the Italian league and is also the winner of the champions league of 2002.
Trentino has a young and ambitious team with players like gianelli, Nelli and Lanza. Together with the player on fire Tiny Urnaut they could be a big surprise this year.
Lube Civitanova has a very experincied team with volleyball legend Ivan Miljkovic and William Reid Priddy. Together with the best libero in the world Jenia Grebennikov and serve cannon Osmany Juantorena they should win against trentino. But never say never in the final four.
Asseco Resovia RZESZÓW Played last year against Zenit Kazan in the final. They had no change to win the match against the power of kazan. This year they play in their home country and have a big vantage with their home crowd. With big Players like Bartosz Kurek and Fabian Drzyga they have a big change to look for a surprise agains Zenit Kazan.
Zenit Kazan is the big favorite to also win the champions league this year. The squad is almost the same and the players are in top shape. Wilfredo Leon and Matthew Anderson are many the best outside hitters in the world but the other teams are do stand a chance, Ask Skra Belchatow for advice they beat Zenit Kazan in Poland with 3 against 2.
Champions League Final Four Schedule
Semi Final 1
16-04-2016 (16:30) Zenit Kazan - Asseco Resovia Rzeszow
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
Semi Final 2
16-04-2016 (19:30) Trentino Diatec - Cucine Lube Civitanova
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
Bronze Medal Final
17-04-2016 (14:45)
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
Gold Medal Final
17-04-2016 (18:00)
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
You can see all the matches live at www.laola1.tv. More information at:
http://www.cev.lu/
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The other Semi Final is Trentino Diatec against Cucine Lube Civitanova. These two italian teams have a lot of Champions league History. Trentino won the champions league three times in a row, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Under head coach stoychev they were undefeatable. These where the years of Matey Kazyiski and Osman Juantorena. The last player plays now at Lube Civitanova and is still a very important player. Cucine Lube Civitanova is the winner of the poule fase in the Italian league and is also the winner of the champions league of 2002.
Trentino has a young and ambitious team with players like gianelli, Nelli and Lanza. Together with the player on fire Tiny Urnaut they could be a big surprise this year.
Lube Civitanova has a very experincied team with volleyball legend Ivan Miljkovic and William Reid Priddy. Together with the best libero in the world Jenia Grebennikov and serve cannon Osmany Juantorena they should win against trentino. But never say never in the final four.
Asseco Resovia RZESZÓW Played last year against Zenit Kazan in the final. They had no change to win the match against the power of kazan. This year they play in their home country and have a big vantage with their home crowd. With big Players like Bartosz Kurek and Fabian Drzyga they have a big change to look for a surprise agains Zenit Kazan.
Zenit Kazan is the big favorite to also win the champions league this year. The squad is almost the same and the players are in top shape. Wilfredo Leon and Matthew Anderson are many the best outside hitters in the world but the other teams are do stand a chance, Ask Skra Belchatow for advice they beat Zenit Kazan in Poland with 3 against 2.
Champions League Final Four Schedule
Semi Final 1
16-04-2016 (16:30) Zenit Kazan - Asseco Resovia Rzeszow
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
Semi Final 2
16-04-2016 (19:30) Trentino Diatec - Cucine Lube Civitanova
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
Bronze Medal Final
17-04-2016 (14:45)
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
Gold Medal Final
17-04-2016 (18:00)
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestrea...
You can see all the matches live at www.laola1.tv. More information at:
http://www.cev.lu/
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Edit: After watching the semis, Trentino might have a chance to beat Kazan
Of course it didn't change a lot since last year, but not the past years. I'd even dare to say that Belgorie changed the less with Tetyukin, Muserskiy, Smoliar, and Khtei.
I believe every team is new each year, but let's not forget one thing: When Priddy arrived on the team, the team's ranking skyrocketed. Maybe it's because he filled an important hole of the team? Every teams has a core that will (almost) never change unless the staff is overhauled. The core, that is the engine of the team, is what characterize the team. Zenit Kazan is the very good hitters(All are good, Gatselyuk, Aschev, Mikhaylov, Anderson, Wilfredo, and so on). Belgorie relies more on tall people in the middle and smaller hitters? Modena relies more on cunning with NGapeth, Bruno and Starovic? And so on. ?
If you have a bunch of good players, it's the job of the head coach to make them work together. That being said, that's why I believe it's more because of Alekno's job that Zenit is so good? Everywhere he coaches, it's a good team. When he retook over Russia's team, they are back on the olympics. And we don't forget Zenit Kazan is coached by him.
To go back on topic, Resovia?
Kurek will be able to deal with Maxim I'm sure, but maybe they will have to put him on the other side (4) to increase the power and blocking there? With Wilfredo and Matthew, I'd do that. They have a lefty on the team and I'm honestly impressed by him, he should be okay to be an opposite on those games. I believe Resovia has the upper hand with the middles since Andrey Aschev relies mainly on being very avaible to attack instead of explosiveness and powers, while Gatselyuk is more like an average guy with a very good situation awareness.... (That makes him very good by the way) While Resovia has Piotr Nowakoski who is a top middle blocker and Russel Holmes is very good too.
To conclude with Resovia, I believe they have the tools to beat Zenit Kazan. However, the defense is not perfect, so it might be very hard for them becuase of Zenit's aggressiveness.
As of Lube, They have the best Libero in Jennia, so they have a better general defense. Very good middle blockers with the serbian middles, I think they have he upper hand there too. Very good spiker with Miljkovic and Fei(I'd put one of them on the wing side if it's not going well). Even with Priddy, I'm not very fond of their wing spikers. I believe they lack there if they want to beat Kazan's team. They have a good defense that could cope with Kazan's power, and some good attacks, but maybe not enough to keep a momentum long enough to disrupt Kazan. But we might be surprised.
To summarize, I think both could beat Kazan. Resovia with the better middles and good wing spikers and Kurek... Or Lube with the better general defense with it libero and middles.
As of Trentino, hey have Mitar Djuric and Filippo Lanza who can be a threat (So they have a threat on both side). However, I feel that the rest of the team aren't that impressive... Well, not enough in my opinion to beat the three other teams. Yeah they got good setters, but I still think its not there.
I believe Trentino won't go further.
Kaziyski has a menacing serve, so it helps, but I think it's not enough.
PS: By the way, I'm not an expert. ?
I believe they are very strong, but to compete with Kazan? That I'm not sure if they can. I agree partly with Wilfredo_is_Marshall: Belgorie is strong, but not enough. They had a low rank, then climbed fast in the russia cup. I think Trentino has the upper hand in term of momentum, especially with Kaziyski.
By the way, I'm surprised that almost all the post here got minus voted(especially my last one). It was a healthy discussion. I just threw what I thought about the current situation with my inexperience. I discussed all that because I like that kind of discussion and would hope for more discussion like that. Instead of minus voting, why not participate in the discussion and teach me a new things or two? Or prove me I'm wrong(I'm surely wrong by the way)? Some friendly arguing is fun. ? Note that I don't care about the votes, I just want to encourage discussion... I've stated I'm not an expert and would like to learn about professional volley-ball... We don't have a professional league here in Canada.. So... ?
Zenit Or Trentino? ?
Ahh now that I think about it again, its really hard the predict. Kazan probably played bad because they were playing with the Resovia crowd against them. So tomorrow they may play great again.
Also, what I said about Lube a week ago, "You can have a bunch of great players, but if they can't play as a team they will not win the most important matches." turned out to be correct today. Even Juantorena said it himself! "It was like each of us wanted to decide the game with individual effort. But, it is not like this is this sport. Volleyball is a team game. Congratulations to Trento. At this moment, they simply have something more than us.”
What Trento has is that they can play really well together, but so does Kazan, the question is who will do it better on the big day!?
“March 27, 2011 - precisely, in "his" city of Bolzano, and in the only previous final of Champions League played against Trento and Kazan - Simone Giannelli was also among the more than 7,000 spectators who saw Trentino Volley triumph to victory for a thrid consecutive time. He was 14 at the time, he only played one year with this team and had already won a youth Italian title (Boys League 2010)... I wonder if he would ever have imagined that 5 years and 20 days later, he himself would have to direct Trentino to attempt to win another Champions League title (also against Kazan). There are good stories that sport gives to those who believe ... because #itonlyhappenstothosewhobelieve”
It will be a perfect volleyball story for Giannelli if Trentino wins!
So, I agree with Bratoev sub because he has a float serve and I think that Kazan has some trouble with foat serve(especially Matthew Anderson). Maye he was nervous, but I think he just took too much risk.
I don't know for Lanza, Why he should've started Lanza?
As of Lube, yeah I'm surprised you were right. I think it was the coach's fault to not addressing that.(Or at least, addressing that quickly enough). Nice prediction you made!
@Niamek: I think Lanza is better than Antonov. During Italian NT matches, Lanza was starting over Antonov and moreover, Lanza is also the captain. He back row defense is better and I think he deals with high pressure situations better than Antonov.
As for the Lube prediction, yeah I was cool to see that I was correct, I just had a feeling. I guessed 3-1 for the final of the Prediction game, and it could've been 3-1! If I got that correct, I would've gotten 3rd place in the game, and I would be only 1 out of 2 users that guessed Tretinos victory, but unfortunately this did not happen. If it did, I would have celebrated haha ?