Roeselare (Belgium), 10 January 2023

2023 CEV Champions League, the fifth Pool D Match on Wednesday in Belgium

2023 CEV Champions League will be back on court between today and Thursday to compete for the Main Phase fifth turn. On Wednesday January 11th Trentino Itas will be in Belgium for its first away match of 2023, as Decospan Vt Menen guest. The match will be played at the Tomabell Hall in Roseleare (Knak’s usual home-court), chosen for the Belgian team’s European matches; the game is scheduled for 8.30 p.m. (Italian hours) with a live on Eurosport 2 HD, Radio Dolomiti and discovery+.
HERE ITAS TRENTINO. With still a full score after four 3-points-victories, the yellow-blue team is looking for a positive result again to achieve another important step forward in the Pool D rankings, at the eve of Cisterna di Latina’s away match in SuperLega.
“We want to keep on going with the Champions League victories so that we can be the only ones at the pool’s top and get to the last match as Kedzierzyn-Kozle’s guests at the best possible rankings conditions – said the coach Angelo Lorenzetti while presenting the appointment - . We are aware that we are competing against a team that has nothing to lose and intend to show off its potential in front of the public of Menen. I recommend my players the maximum focus and attention, in order to redeem from Sunday’s defeat against Piacenza”.
Trentino Itas’ coach must do without the captain Matey Kaziyski (he stayed in Trento to follow a different schedule in view of the next important away matches in the SuperLega and Champions League) and will use today’s training session in Belgium and the match day’s one to understand which line-up to play. Nelli and Džavoronok are in the pipeline, as well as the middle blocker D’Heer, who will therefore be back in his hometown as an opponent for the first time.
THE EIGHTH AWAY MATCH IN BELGIUM IN THE YELLOW-BLUE’S HISTORY. This is Trentino Volley’s eighth away match in Belgium (the team will be back in Trento in the early afternoon of January 12th) 5 years after the first time (December 5th 2017, 3-1 in Maaseik). For the team it will be the third time in Roseleare, where Trento already played on February 17th 2010 (3-1 victory in the first round of the Champion Playoffs 12) and on March 11th 2015 (3-2) in the second round of the CEV Cup Challenge Round. The team has also been to Maaseik, where Via Trener’s society played on January 31st 2012, January 14th 2014 (on the occasion of the first round of the Champion Playoffs 12 for 2012 and 2014 Champions League editions, won for 3-0 and 3-1), January 26th 2016 (victory in three sets in the Pool C) and on February 17th 2016 (3-2 against Lennik I the first round of the Playoffs 12). This competition will be the 160th European match of Trentino’s history, the overall 120th in the Champions League.
THE OPPONENTS. For Decospan Vt, Wednesday’s match will be one of the most important international matches ever, even though it will play a little far away from their home land (Roseleare is about 30 kilometres away from Menen); never before could the vice-champion Belgian society host a SuperLega line-up, even though it has previously taken part in six Challenge Cups (where in 2012 and 2016 it made it all the way to the semi-finals) and four CEV Cups, in which it also participated in the last season, beaten by Las Palmas in the knockout phase. In 2000 Decospan arrived in the Premier League without even a trophy (in the Belgium Cup it only got to the semi-finals), it will have the chance to redeem itself in February, when it will compete right against Knack Roseleare in the National Cup finals. After a negative start in the championship, the team coached by Frank Depestele (former successful setter with experiences in Russia, Greece, Türkiye, France and Argentina) began its comeback through victories, reaching the fifth place in the rankings also thanks to the 3-1 obtained on Sunday on Axisguibertin’s court and the opposite Kindt (20 points) and the wing Capet’s skills (17). In the last six turns the team has gained fourteen of the eighteen available points- Decospan Vt Menen’s shortlist: Jiri Hanninen (outside-hitter), 3. Jelle Sinnesael (middle blocker), 4. Leonis Dedeyne (middle blocker), 5. Basil Dermaux (outside-hitter), 6. Yentl Bille (libero), 7. Mathieu Vanneste (outside-hitter), 8. Maxime Capet (outside-hitter), 9. Lowie Stuer (libero), 11. Seppe Van Hoyweghen (setter), 12. Thiemen Ocket (setter), 13. Arno Van de Velde (middle blocker), 15. Lou Kindt (opposite). Coach Frank Depestele.
BACKGROUND. The first match, played on November 10th at the BLM Group Arena and secured 3-0 (sets 25-16, 25-17, 25-12, mvp Nelli), is the only one between the two societies. The other Belgian lineups faced are Maaseik (8 times), Roseleare (4) and Asse-Lennik (2); the overall toll against these teams is in Trentino Volley’s favor: 15 victories in just as many official competitions.
THE REFEREES. The match will be arbitrated by Bruno Muha, first Croatian referee from Zegreb, and by Chantal Kaiser, second French referee from Paris. The latter is the only one that can hold a background over Trentino Volleyball, arbitrated on February 13th 2019 at the BLM Group Arena in the occasion of the success against Amriswell in the second round of the CEV Cup quarterfinals.
TV, RADIO AND INTERNET. The match will be broadcast live on Eurosport 2 HD, Tv channel available on Sky and OTT (by DAZN). It is also scheduled a live on Radio Dolomiti, Trentino Volley’s partner radio, starting from 8.30 p.m. Frequencies to tune in to the local network are available on www.radiodolomiti.com, where it will be also possible to listen to the radio report on live streaming.
You can watch the match via video streaming on the “discovery+” platform, by purchasing the “Entertainment & Sport” package (monthly subscription priced at 7.99 €). For further information https://auth.discoveryplus.com/it/product.
The end-to-end updates will be available on the Internet on the CEV website (https://championsleague.cev.eu/en/match-centres/cev-champions-league-volley-2023/cev-champions-league-volley-2023-men/clvm-66-decospan-vt-menen-v-trentino-itas/), from  www.trentinovolley.it  itself and will be also available on the yellow-blue social media (www.trentinovolley.it/facebook, www.trentinovolley.it/instagram and www.trentinovolley.it/twitter).

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