Trento, 12 January 2024

Champions League, win with Resovia to confirm No. 1 seed in the draw

The fifth match day of the group stage of the 2024 CEV Champions League proved particularly favourable for Trentino Itas. The 3-0 win in Ljubljana on Wednesday evening in fact qualified the Gialloblù directly for the quarter-finals (thanks to the mathematical certainty of first place in Pool B with one round to spare), but at the same time moved them up to first place in the overall ranking of the competition.
Among the 20 teams taking part in the group stage, divided into five pools, none has done better than Trento so far in terms of victories (5), points in the standings (15) and set quotient (7.5 thanks to fifteen instalments won and just two lost). Tuesday night's defeats of Civitanova in Galati (2-3) and Thursday's defeat of Jastrzebski in Las Palmas (1-3) have therefore led to Soli's team becoming the first seed in the event, gaining two positions and remaining as the only team still without defeats together with Ziraat Ankara, which in group A has however collected fewer points (13) due to two victories obtained only at the tie break.
To confirm their position as 'first among the firsts' at the end of the Main Phase, the italian champions will therefore need a victory with any score in Wednesday's match, the last of Pool B, to be played at the ilT quotidiano Arena in Trento at 8.30 p.m. against the Polish team Asseco Resovia. A result that would be particularly important in view of the Playoffs, whose table is defined by taking into account the ranking at the end of the group stage. If Trento were to arrive as number one seed, they would challenge the winner of the round of 16 confrontation in the quarterfinals (double round with first round on January 31st and return on February 7th) between the fourth of the second-place teams and the third of the second-place teams: with the current rankings, the challenge would be between Vki Lvi Praga and Tours Vb.
The quarter-finals will be the penultimate double-round of the draw before the Final and will be played on February 21st (away) and  February 28th (at the ilT quotidiano Arena in Trento).

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