Calcit KAMNIK need to step it up one level in #CLVolleyW re-match with Mladost

Calcit KAMNIK lost 0-3 (13-25, 17-25, 20-25) in the first match of CEV Champions League opening round contested last week in Zagreb, but nothing is yet lost for the Slovenian reigning champions. In the return match coming up on Wednesday at 8 pm in Kamnik, they will have to beat Mladost 3-0 or 3-1, and then again in the eventual Golden Set that would follow. It’s not impossible, but not with the performance that they showed in Zagreb.

In Zagreb, Calcit made as many as 29 errors, the Mladost players only 13, they had 45% reception, the Zagreb team had 51%, at the same time they were only 32% effective in attack, their opponents recorded a 47% success rate, they scored two aces, while the Croatian champions had seven. They were better only in the block, with which they reached four points; Astrid Popić scored all three for Mladost. All this will have to change on Wednesday if Calcit wants to level up the competition.

“In the first match, Mladost was a better team than us. Nothing to add here. We will see how it goes in the return leg. In any case, we will do everything to reach a more favourable result. No doubt, we will have to raise the level of our game not by one step, but at least by two, if we want to be competitive, so we have a very difficult match ahead of us. Above all, we will have to reduce the number of our own mistakes. This can be corrected with an even better work in training and a greater number of difficult matches,” Gregor Rozman, the coach of Calcit Volley, is leaving the role of favourites, at least judging by the first match, to the Zagreb team.