Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Play By Play
TOURS VB
Top Scorer
- 19 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 11 - Aboubacar DRAME NETO (BRA)
- 10 - Aleksandar NIKOLOV (BUL)
Officials
Ivaylo IVANOV
Pawel BURKIEWICZ
Head-to-head
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA and TOURS VB will meet for the fourth time in the CEV Champions League. The Italian team won all three previous encounters, including 3-1 in this season's reverse fixture.
- On 16 November, Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA beat TOURS VB 3-1 at Salle Robert Grenon in Tours after losing the opening set. Tours' Aboubacar Drame Neto (24) scored the most points in that match.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA had previously defeated TOURS VB in the 2020/21 Champions League group stage: 3-0 in Perugia and 3-1 in Tours.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA are unbeaten against French opponents in the Champions League. Besides their three victories over TOURS VB, they beat PARIS Volley in the 2014/15 group phase.
- TOURS VB have a W8-L21 record against Italian teams in the Champions League, including losing each of their last nine encounters with Italian sides in the competition.
- The last victory by TOURS VB against an Italian team in the Champions League was a 3-2 group stage win over TRENTINO Diatec in Tours on 16 December 2015.
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA won each of their first three matches in the 2022/23 Champions League group stage. They can win their opening four group stage matches in a Champions League campaign for the fifth successive time.
- The last time Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA suffered a defeat in their opening four group stage games of a Champions League campaign was in 2017/18, when they lost their opener to Sir Colussi Sicoma PERUGIA (2-3).
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have won 25 of their last 27 group stage matches in the CEV Champions League, with the exceptions being a 0-3 defeat against Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in 2020/21 and a 2-3 loss versus Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the last matchround last season, when the Italians had already qualified for the quarter-finals. Note: Two of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's 25 victories in this run include 3-0 awarded wins versus Arkas IZMIR in the 2020/21 group stage.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's last four Champions League defeats were against Polish opposition. Their last Champions League loss versus a non-Polish opponent was the aforementioned group stage loss against Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in 2020/21.
- Marlon Yant Herrera is Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's leading scorer in the 2022/23 Champions League group stage on 55 points. He scored 19 against Sport LISBOA e Benfica, 19 versus TOURS VB and 17 against Knack ROESELARE.
TOURS VB
- TOURS VB won two of their opening three Champions League group stage matches this season: 3-0 away at Knack ROESELARE and 3-1 away at Sport LISBOA e Benfica. They lost 1-3 at home against Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA in the second matchround.
- The last time TOURS VB progressed from the Champions League group stage was in 2015/16, when they were eliminated in the Playoffs 12 by Belogorie BELGOROD.
- Each of TOURS VB's last seven Champions League defeats were all against Italian opponents (2019-2022).
- None of TOURS VB's last 16 Champions League matches have gone to five sets, since a 3-2 victory over Arkas IZMIR in the 2018/19 group stage on 12 February 2019. Note: Their current run includes two 3-0 awarded wins against Arkas IZMIR in the 2020/21 group stage.
- Aboubacar Drame Neto (63) is among the best scorers in the group stage of the 2022/23 Champions League. His set average of 5,73 points is third-best in this season's group stage at the start of this matchround.
- Coming into this matchround, only Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA's Oleh Plotnytskyi (9) has recorded more aces in this season's Champions League group stage than Luciano Palonsky (8).
Gianlorenzo Blengini“This time I expect a more difficult game than it was in the away leg, because I perfectly know the real value of Tours VB and, in my opinion, we played a good match in France, while they didn't show their usual level of performance, especially if we consider the results they get in the immediately preceding games. We will have to be good at focusing on our side of the court, developing our volleyball performance and taking advantage of such challenging matches to continue our growth path.”
Head Coach Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Marcelo Fronckowiak"It is an important match for the further qualification in the group. The Lube are favourites but we want to do our best to get a positive result. We are looking for a qualification for the Play Offs, if the opportunity arises we will go for it."
Head Coach TOURS VB
Zeljko Coric"For us it's a match where, if we are at the level we know how to show, we can play a big role in the passage to the next round of the competition. We were the protagonists of their power in the first game so we have to control them and impose our style of play, but with a team like Lube, it will not be easy at all. A great challenge for us."
Captain TOURS VB
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Officials
First RefereeIvaylo IVANOVBULSecond RefereePawel BURKIEWICZPOL
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How To Attend
Via San Costantino, CIVITANOVA MARCHE, 62012 Capacity: 4100
Team
- GARCIA FERNANDEZ Gabriel Jose1 Opposite
- SOTTILE Pasquale3 Setter
- MELONARI Filippo4 Setter
- D'AMICO Francesco6 Libero
- PENNA Gaetano8 Outside spiker
- DIAMANTINI Enrico12 Middle blocker
- GOTTARDO Mattia13 Outside spiker
- GIACOMINI Francesco16 Middle blocker
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA 
Address
Via Zona Artigianale Capoluogo, 5 TreiaContacts
Previous Games
| 15/03/2023 | vs. |
3 - 1 | W | Go to Match Centre |
| 07/03/2023 | vs. |
1 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 25/01/2023 | vs. |
3 - 2 | W | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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18Competitions Played
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6Titles
- Competition
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8Matches Played
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7Matches Won
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88%Win %
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22Sets Won
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773Points Won
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54%Attack %
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54%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Camposanpiero - PD
- Height: 180 cm
- Birth Date: 1998
- Birth Place: Dunkerque
- Height: 202 cm
- Birth Date: 1988
- Birth Place: Santa Fe
- Height: 195 cm
- Birth Date: 2001
- Birth Place: Villa Clara
- Height: 204 cm
Staff
Team
- DEROUILLON Pierre2 Outside spiker
- AYA DIOKO Clement3 Outside spiker
- DE NARDA ELIOT4 Outside spiker
- PELVET Aymeric6 Outside spiker
- CHAUVIN Gary8 Setter
- BRUCKERT Thiebault9 Middle blocker
- NACHBAR Julien11 Outside spiker
- FURIC Thomas18 Middle blocker
TOURS VB 
Address
1, boulevard de Lattre de Tassigny Centre Municipal des Sports TOURSContacts
Previous Games
| 15/02/2023 | vs. |
2 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 08/02/2023 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 25/01/2023 | vs. |
3 - 0 | W | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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18Competitions Played
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2Titles
- Competition
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8Matches Played
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3Matches Won
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38%Win %
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14Sets Won
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664Points Won
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51%Attack %
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54%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1993
- Birth Place: Aracaju/SE
- Height: 200 cm
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Buenos Aires
- Height: 198 cm
- Birth Date: 1994
- Birth Place: Brasilia DF
- Height: 204 cm
- Birth Date: 1987
- Birth Place: Kupiansk
- Height: 200 cm
- Birth Date: 1996
- Height: 198 cm
- Birth Date: 1991
- Birth Place: Reading
- Height: 203 cm
Recent Results
Knack ROESELARE
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
(19 - 25, 25 - 21, 23 - 25, 27 - 29)
TOURS VB
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
(25 - 20, 20 - 25, 22 - 25, 13 - 25)
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Sport LISBOA e Benfica
(23 - 25, 21 - 25, 25 - 19, 25 - 22, 15 - 13)
Team Statistics
Player Statistics
Head to Head
Gabriel Jose GARCIA FERNANDEZ
Opposite
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Pierre DEROUILLON
Outside spiker
TOURS VB
Lube dominates set two to double its lead
Aleksandar Nikolov is having another good day for Lube
Lube celebrate victorious
Ivan Zaytsev named MVP of the match
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Zaytsev leads Lube to fourth #CLVolleyM win in Super Match of the Week
Italy’s Cucine Lube Civitanova secured its spot in the men’s CEV Champions League Volley 2023 after the pool stage of the competition by claiming its fourth consecutive win in Pool C. On Wednesday evening, Lube took a 3-0 (25-23, 25-13, 25-17) home victory over France’s Tours VB to stay unbeaten on top of the pool standings on a 4-0 win-loss record and 11 points. Tours is second on 2-2 and six points, above Belgium’s Knack Roeselare on 2-2 and five points, with two legs to go.
The first set was very competitive and the first time the gap exceeded one point was after 10-10, when two spiking points in a row by Marlon Yant, followed up by a kill block from Simone Anzani, gave Lube a 13-10 lead. Tours kept up the fight and battled its way back to within one at 22-21, but that was only as close as the French team could get. Ivan Zaytsev hammered the set winner at 25-23.
A successful swing and an ace by Leandro Nascimento produced the first two points of the second set. Aleksandar Nikolov, however, garnished a five-point Lube run with an ace and a back-row swing as his team broke away with a 7-3 lead and never looked back. The rest of the set was completely one-sided, with Nikolov and Zaytsev swinging away and the latter contributing another two aces towards an emphatic 25-13 win.
Tours once again took the first two points in the third set, but could not hold on to its early lead for long. With Zaytsev keeping up the fire in offence, Lube gradually built up a lead that went as wide as eight points. Finally, sub-in Mattia Bottolo delivered the match point with a spectacular pipe for 24-16 and a rally later he converted it himself with a kill for 25-17.
Opposite Ivan Zaytsev topped the scorers’ chart of the match with 19 points to his name, including three aces and two kill blocks, and earned the Most Valuable Player nomination. Outside hitters Aleksandar Nikolov and Marlon Yant added 10 points each towards Lube’s victory. Aboubacar Drame Neto was the only Tours player to reach the double digits with 11 points.
Ivan Zaytsev“We are very happy for the win and for the team’s performance, especially for what we did in the second and in the third sets, when everything was working very well on our side of the court. I don’t know if we have already secured the first position, and honestly I think it doesn’t matter, because when you play for such an great club like Civitanova you play to win every game. So we will do in the remaining two matches.”
Opposite of Cucine Lube Civitanova, MVP of the match
Marcelo Fronckowiak“After a balanced first set, we totally disappeared from the court, and of course, I can’t be happy for this. We didn’t show the right attitude for such an important match and I will talk to my players about this. On the other side, I also want to congratulate Civitanova for their great performance.”
Head coach of Tours VB
The match in numbers
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The number of successful point winning blocks of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA compared to TOURS VB.
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA number of service aces compared to TOURS VB
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Top Scorer
- 19 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 11 - Aboubacar DRAME NETO (BRA)
- 10 - Aleksandar NIKOLOV (BUL)
Top Attacker
- 14 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 11 - Aboubacar DRAME NETO (BRA)
- 9 - Aleksandar NIKOLOV (BUL)
Top Blocker
- 2 - Simone ANZANI (ITA)
- 2 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 1 - Barthélémy CHINENYEZE (FRA)
Top Server
- 3 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 1 - Leandro NASCIMENTO DOS SANTOS (BRA)
- 1 - Aleksandar NIKOLOV (BUL)
Top Receiver
- 7 - João Rafael DE BARROS FERREIRA (BRA)
- 6 - Fabio BALASO (ITA)
- 5 - Benjamin DIEZ (FRA)