Trento, 27 February 2018
On Wednesday night the last round of Pool E of 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League: Trentino Diatec - Noliko Maaseik guide
Uros Kovacevic and Daniele De Pandis (ph. Trabalza)
The last round of Pool E of 2018 CEV Volleyball Champions League will be played tomorrow evening, Wednesday February 28th. The Main Phase of the most important continental festival for clubs will end for Trentino Diatec at PalaTrento, where the Belgians of Noliko Maaseik will arrive for the match valid for the sixth day. Starting whistle scheduled for 8.30 pm; live Radio Dolomiti and live streaming on the website www.laola1.tv.
HERE TRENTINO DIATEC After conquering the qualification to the elimination phase of the CEV Champions League with a turn in advance for the eighth time in its history (out of eight participations) , the yellow-blue team returns to the field for the third time in a week at PalaTrento with the need to win the match with any score to finish at least in second place the pool, resisting the attempt to the attempt to overtake of the opponents on Wednesday. The placement would still be worth much, because it would guarantee a “softer" combination in the Playoffs 12 (the draw will be on Friday March 2nd in Luxembourg).
"This event means a sort of final to us, because it assigns the second place of the Pool E - confirms the coach Angelo Lorenzetti -. Beyond the value of the position in the standings, which is important, the match counts so much to set an intermediate milestone in our path in the Champions League. I also believe it to be a reliable test for the SuperLega match, which we will play on Sunday in Monza; compared to the first match played in Belgium the Noliko Maaseik has grown a lot, especially in the side-out phase ".
For the third international event of 2018 the Trentino Diatec will show the entire team and will finish the preparation between the trainings of this evening and Wednesday morning at PalaTrento.
Fiftieth international match at PalaTrento In this circumstance the PalaTrento will cross a prestigious line; Trentino Diatec-Noliko Maaseik will in fact be the fiftieth international game played by Trentino Volley in the facility of via Fersina. 35 are the matches in the Champions League (30 victories, 4 losses), 3 in the Top Teams Cup (2 victories, 1 loss) and 12 in the CEV Cup (10 victories, 2 losses). It will be then the 143th international match of the Club of via Trener’s history (balance of 117 victories and 25 losses), the 80th in the Champions League, in which it will go in search of the 65th success.
The opponents Noliko Maaseik is coming in search of the big shot never found in three precedents: violating the PalaTrento would in fact allow the main volleyball association of Belgium (his palmares counts on 14 leagues, 14 cups and 14 national supercups and is unequaled in his homeland) to qualify with certainty at the Playoffs 12 of the tournament, a result that hasn’t been achieved for more than four seasons, while otherwise should hope to be among the two best third-ranked of the five groups, to access the final board. The team entrusted to Joel Banks also wants the qualification to redeem the recent loss in the Final of the Belgian Cup, surrendered for 1-3 in favour of the historic opponents of Roeselare after Noliko had won the regular season of the national championship with three points of advantage right on the same Knack. In the previous weekend they overcame Guibertin for 3-1 at home on the second day of the second phase, led by the opposite Cox (27 points) and the spiker Bruno (17). The Noliko Maaseik team: 1. Jolan Cox (o), 2. Sebastien Dumont (l), 3. Michiel Ahyi (s), 4. Timo Tammemaa (c), 5. Jelte Maan (s), 6. Just Dronkers (l), 9. Jay Michael Blankenau (p), 10. Nicolas Bruno (s), 11. Kamil Rychlicki (s), 12. Stef Van Heyste (p), 13. Sebastian Gevert (o), 16. Berre Peters (s), 17. Dane Mijatovic (c), 18. Nicholas Sighinolfi (c). Coach Joel Banks.
The situation of Pool E Wednesday closes the Pool E with the last two matches scheduled; the situation is still to be defined with regard to the first three positions, with Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle who has however the opportunity, winning with any score the match with Arkas Izmir (mathematically the last team and then eliminated ), to block the first place, currently having an extra victory (4 versus 3) of Trento and Maaseik. The direct match between Diatec and the Belgians will probably award the second place to the team the winning team. On Friday, March 2nd in Luxembourg the draw of the Playoffs 12, elimination round, to which the Trentino Diatec is however already qualified even if it should lose versus Noliko (in that case as best third).
The previous matches The match of Wednesday will be the eight one between the two teams, which faced each other during the Playoffs 12 of the years 2012 and 2014 of CEV Champions League, in the group phase of the year 2016 and in the first round of the current championship. The balance sheet is in favour of Trentino Volley, which only lost four sets in the space of all the matches. They played on January 31st 2012 in Belgium (3-0), on February 8th 2012 at PalaTrento (3-1), on January 14th 2014 in Maaseik (3-1), on January 22nd 2014 at PalaTrento (3-1), on November 5th 2015 (3-0 at PalaTrento), on January 26th 2016 (3-0 in Belgium) and on December 5th 2017 at the Steengoed Arena, performing 17-25, 23-25, 25-23, 17-25 and on that occasion Lanza was the best scorer, with 16 points. Trentino Volley always won against Belgian teams, also counting the victories against Roeselare and against Asse-Lennik (which Trento defeated two times).
The referees The match will be umpired by Milan Rajkovic, the first Croatian referee from Rijeka, and by Stanislava Simic, the secon Serbian referee. Mr. Rajkovic is the only one who already met Trentino Volley in an official match: he umpired the match Trento-Paok Salonicco 3-0, which happened on January 19th 2016 (during the round phase of the edition 2016 of CEV Champions League).
TV, radio and internet The match will be broadcast live from 8:25pm by Radio Dolomiti, which is the partner transmitter of Trentino Volley. On the site www.radiodolomiti.com it will be possible to listen to the frequencies of the regional network and to the streaming of the match chronicle, entering the section “on air”. Also the site www.laola1.tv is transmitting the match live; in order to follow the matches all you have to do is click on the CEV Champions League section (which can be reached clicking on http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/channel/volleyball-cev-champions-league-men-livestream-video-for-free) and then clicking on the red icon “live”. If you want to follow the match point after point you just need to look on the CEV official site; on the website http://cevlive.cev.lu/DV_LiveScore.aspx?ID=30855 you will find the live score.
The score will be constantly updated on the site www.trentinovolley.it and on the yellow-blues social medias (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook e www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).
The match will by broadcast on television on Wednesday February 28th starting from 10:45pm on Sky Sport Plus (channel 205), with the commentary of Fabrizio Monari and Samuele Papi.
Tickets, merchandising and Forst day, the match is included in your season ticket. The pre-sale of the ticket will be active until Wednesday afternoon at 5:00pm at the Trentino Volley point of Via Trener and in the offices of Promoevent, in via Suffragio 10 in Trento, and any time on internet on the site www.vivaticket.it/ita/event/trentino-diatec-noliko-maaseik/109759.
The ticket office of palaTrento will be open from 7:30pm, same time at which the doors of the building will open, and will be open until the end of the second set. From that moment it won’t be possible to enter the building to see the match anymore.
Inside the fans can find the merchandising point, on the north side. Many Trentino Volley items will be for sale.
At PalaTrento there will also be the second “Forst Day” of the season; as a consequence of the appreciation of the first day, which happened on December 26th, Forst Beer – which has been sponsor of the Trentino Volley jersey since many years – and the yellow-blue Club itself will set up a series of initiatives in order to promote their partnership. Also the prize for the best player of the match will have the Forst brand on it: in fact it wil be a two liters bottle of Forst Sixtus Beer, so as to toast with the team mates for their great performance.
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