Simon Van de Voorde at service during the first CEV Champions League home match
Ph. Trabalza
Trento, December 1st, 2015
After a week off, the 2016 CEV Volleyball Champions League DenizBank starts again. Tomorrow evening, on Wednesday, December 2nd, in PalaTrento will be in fact played the third round of the League Round of the most important continental event for the club, the second home one for the Yellow-blue team that will challenge the French Tours Vb, in comparison to the top of Pool C. The kick off is scheduled at 8.30 pm, broadcasted live on on Fox Sports tv and Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on www.laola1.tv.
HERE TRENTINO DIATEC The final home success got on Sunday against Latina, it had the merit to erase the defeat of six days ago in Molfetta and raise the Super League ranking for the Champions of Italy, which open tomorrow evening the month of December full of big matches. The home match against Tours is in fact the first in a series of decisive events that will be played in the next twenty-two days; the six points at stake in the challenge of PalaTrento and one on Wednesday 16th in France, will probably determine the first place in the final grouping of Champions, the only one that guarantees certain access to the Playoffs 12 (next stage of direct elimination). To gain the victory could thus help the Trentino Diatec to reach this first European goal and prepare the return match with greater confidence.
"It's definitely the most important challenge that we play in the first half of the Champions League” - admits Radostin Stoytchev, that in the 2000/01 season dressed the jersey of Tours as a player. - “To win this game means staying ahead of the Pool C and take a major step towards the victory of the that. It will not be easy because the opponents are a team of rank and experience, as evidenced by the libero at their disposal. I know Henno very well for having also coached him, and it will be a great emotion to play against him as well as play another match against Tours. My hope, of course, is that in the end can be a positive emotion guaranteeing us the victory”.
Thanks to the recovery of Urnaut, already in the field from Sunday for a glimpse of the match against Latina, the technical staff will have at its disposal for the first seasonal time in European contest, the entire squad of thirteen players and could decide to enroll it entirely on the scoresheet, bringing De Angelis in the role of a second libero. Trento vs. Tours will be the thirty-ninth European home game in the history of Trentino Volley, the twenty-ninth ever in the Champions League, where up to now got twenty-five victories and only three defeats, the last twenty-one and a half months ago against Belgorod (on February 13th, 2014). Concerning the numbers, for the Company of via Trener the one against the French team will be the 113th international match ever, the sixty-fifth in the Champions League. A match surely particular for Oleg Antonov, another former duty for playing with the jersey of Tours last season centering the transalpine treble (Championship, Cup and National SuperCup).
THE SITUATION OF POOL C Trentino Diatec and Tours are at the top of the group with maximum points thanks to two victories by three points from as many days played. The advantage compared to the other two participants in the group is then maximum (6 points), although in the group stage the first discriminant are the victories and the scored points (second criterion); tonight in Belgium will be played the other challenge that complete the third round in the group: Maaseik will in fact staged the match between Noliko and the Greeks of Thessaloniki that inevitably will determine, depending on the end result, which of the two teams will continue to hope in qualifying. In the next round, scheduled for Wednesday, December 16th, will be played the same comparisons but with home court reversed. The first ones of each of the seven Pool and the best five second will access the Playoffs 12.
PREVIOUSLY The one of tomorrow will be the third absolute confrontation between the two Companies, which already competed twice at the same stage in 2013 edition of the tournament, curiously even then in Pool C. The budget speaks exclusively to other Trentino Volley, who won both matches 3-0: with partial of 25-19, 25-16, 25-23 away on November 1st, 2012, with scores of 25-23, 25-21, 25-16 on December 5th, 2012 in the only previous in PalaTrento falling just three years ago (on December 5th, 2012). Against French teams Trentino Volley can boast only previous positive bearing considering also the two victories obtained against Beauvais in 2009 (the one of the debut, then won at the Final Four in Prague).
REFEREES The contest will be conducted by Maciej Twardowski, first referee from Warsaw (Poland), and the Portuguese Vitor Alexandre Goncalves, second referee of Porto. Neither whistles features than previous official with Trentino Volley.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET The match will be broadcasted live on Fox Sports, visible on the satellite platform Sky Sports on HD channel number 204. Commentary headed by Stefano Locatelli.
Intended as always also the Live broadcast on Radio Dolomiti, partner stations of Trentino Volley, with first connection at approximately at 8.25 pm. On the website www.radiodolomiti.com you can see all the frequencies of the regional network and, at the same time, you can stream the full match, by clicking "on air".
The website www.laola1.tv will broadcast streaming video and audio of the match; to be able to follow the races simply access the section reserved for the CEV Champions League (available on the link http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/cev-cl-men/59.html and click on the red "live" that will appear at the top of the page.
To follow the match’s developments point to point, you can also consult the official website of the CEV http://cevlive.cev.lu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=27798, that will provide live score. Updates score will always be active on www.trentinovolley.it and on Yellow-blue social networks (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
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