16/02/2022 20:30

Steengoed Arena MAASEIK

106 mins

VC Greenyard MAASEIK – Projekt WARSZAWA

VC Greenyard MAASEIK

(BEL)

1 3

(25-21, 17-25, 18-25, 18-25)

Projekt WARSZAWA

(POL)

Both teams are looking for their second win in the League

Projekt WARSZAWA’s efficiency in Blocks are making a difference: 12 points against 3

After losing the first set, Projekt WARSZAWA wins 3 in a row and the match is over

Petkovic (SRB) makes 23 points and is the top scorer of the game


Men

CEV Champions League Volley 2022 | Men

CLM 54

4th Round

Pool B

6th Leg

- VC Greenyard MAASEIK has a very long-standing rivalry with Polish teams. The double encounter with Projekt Warszawa will be European matches n° 33 and 34 against teams from Poland.

- Yet, MAASEIK has never met a team from the capital before. Projekt WARSZAWA is the seventh Polish opponent after 11 (eleven !) games against Kedzierzyn, 6 against Czestochowa and Jastrzebski Wegiel, 4 against Belchatow, 3 against Sosnowiec and 2 against Trefl Gdansk.

- At home Maaseik has a very positive record against Polish teams: 11 victories vs. 4 defeats. The last encounter, two years ago, ended in a 3-2 win against Jastrzebski Wegiel.

- Projekt Warszawa will arrive in Maaseik with a couple of old friends: head coach Andrea Anastasi was at the helm of the Belgian national team in the 2018-19 season. But he was also head coach of Trefl Gdansk, the last team to beat Greenyard Maaseik in a European game on Belgian soil. They posted a convincing 0-3 in february 2019.

- The double duel will be a special one for Jay Blankenau. The 32-year old Canadian setter defended the colours of Maaseik in 2017-18 and and 2018-19. In both seasons he led the reds to the league title in Belgium.

- Warszawa’s Igor Grobelny has the double nationality: Polish and Belgian. The 28-year old spiker even played for the Belgian national team until 2019, under head coach Anastasi.  His sister, Kaja Grobelna, is one of the pillars of the Belgian national team, the Yellow Tigers.

- Greenyard Maaseik and Projekt Warszawa will battle it out for 3rd place in pool B of the CEV Champions League. Maaseik starts with a slight advantage, since they beat Ziraat Bankasi Ankara last week after a close battle: 3-2. With 2 points, the Belgians are 1 point ahead of Warszawa, who collected just 1 point with a 3-2 loss in the first leg, away at Dinamo Moscow.