1. Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA returns to the court for the most important European competition a few hours after the long trip of over 12 hours to return from Brazil, where the Italian team was defeated by the hosts Sada Cruzeiro in the final of the Men’s Volleyball World Champs.
2. MARIBOR is the second Slovenian team that Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA meets as an opponent in its long and prestigious European road. In the past, the Italian champion team has played on several occasions against ACH Volley BLED - LUBIANA in the CEV Champions League. In 2010 ACH Volley eliminated the Italian team in the quarter-finals with a double win at the tie break.
3. During the competition that has just ended in Brazil, the CIVITANOVA’s coach Gianlorenzo Blengini lined-up the Italian national team star Ivan Zaytsev, finally recovered after a four months stop for a surgery on a knee. For this occasion he also hopes to have Osmany Juantorena available again, as he was out of the court for a month due to a muscle problem.
Fabio Balaso“The match in Maribor will be very important for us, for confirming the leadership in the Pool C and also to immediately erase the bitterness after World champs final in Brazil. We will do our best as always. A win in Slovenia would get us back on track. We don’t know very much about the opponent team, so it is mandatory to face them with the maximum concentration, and thinking only to what we should do in our court side”.
Libero of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
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Match Polls
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Officials
First RefereeStanislava SIMICSRBSecond RefereeJan KRTICKACZE
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How To Attend
Koresova ulica 7, MARIBOR, 2000 Capacity: 3000
Previous Games
| 16/02/2022 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 08/02/2022 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 26/01/2022 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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3Competitions Played
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0Titles
- Competition
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6Matches Played
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0Matches Won
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0%Win %
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0Sets Won
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281Points Won
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40%Attack %
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38%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1996
- Birth Place: Pristina
- Height: 200 cm
- Birth Date: 1993
- Birth Place: Kaposvár
- Height: 198 cm
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA 
Address
Via Zona Artigianale Capoluogo, 5 TreiaContacts
Previous Games
| 16/03/2022 | vs. |
2 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 08/03/2022 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 16/02/2022 | vs. |
2 - 3 | L | 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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5Matches Won
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62%Win %
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19Sets Won
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703Points Won
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51%Attack %
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44%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1987
- Birth Place: La Habana
- Height: 208 cm
- Birth Date: 2001
- Birth Place: Sempeter Pri Gorici
- Height: 206 cm
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Camposanpiero - PD
- Height: 180 cm
- Birth Date: 1992
- Birth Place: Contagem/MG
- Height: 196 cm
- Birth Date: 1988
- Birth Place: Santa Fe
- Height: 195 cm
- Birth Date: 2001
- Birth Place: Villa Clara
- Height: 204 cm
Staff
Recent Results
Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE
OK Merkur MARIBOR
(25 - 19, 25 - 18, 25 - 17)
Team Statistics
Player Statistics
Head to Head
Miha CAFUTA
Middle blocker
OK Merkur MARIBOR
Jiri KOVAR
Outside spiker
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Libero Fabio Balaso in reception
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Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA outclass MARIBOR
OK Merkur Maribor returned to the Champions League after 28 years and in their first home game they played against Cucine Lube Civitanova, who arrived to Slovenia with silver medals won at the FIVB Club World Championship in Brazil. The Italian side dominated on the court from the beginning. In the first set, the Italian side dominated in all components having 60% of positive receptions and 65% of success in attack. The hosts visible improved in the next two sets, playing point-by-point with Italian powerhouse in the third set until the last point. However, they were not able to prevent them from winning this game, especially that Robertlandy Simon Aties was truly on fire - and impressed with his stats in all elements. With 8 blocks, 4 aces, 12 kills and 89% of success in attack he was an outstanding player and fully deserved MVP title.
Ricardo Lucarelli Santos de Souza“It was a great win, we played very well in the first two set, while in the third one we did some bad mistakes in the crucial moments. Good that at the end we fixed the situation and won the game 3-0. We are very happy for this result, we got our goal. We’ve been included in a very strong pool so every point can make the difference”.
outside hitter of Cucine Lube Civitanova
Sebastijan Škorc“First CL game at home in front of full venue against runner-ups of European and World Championships, and we played well. The quality of course was on the other side of the net, but the opponent’s lineup showed no less than respect to our team and the spectators in Dvorana Tabor. Congrats to the Cucine Lube, which is with no doubt one of the candidates for the final trophy.”
head coach of OK Merkur Maribor
Uros Pavlovic“It was a good match. We expected a game like this. They started to push us at the beginning of all sets and that’s why they won this match today.”
middle blocker of OK Merkur Maribor
The match in numbers
The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.
The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.
Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.
The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.
An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.
The number of successful point winning blocks of OK Merkur MARIBOR compared to Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA.
OK Merkur MARIBOR number of service aces compared to Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Errors leading to points of OK Merkur MARIBOR, next to those from Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Top Scorer
- 20 - Robertlandy SIMON ATIES (CUB)
- 14 - Ahmed IKHBAYRI (LBY)
- 12 - Ricardo Lucarelli SANTOS DE SOUZA (BRA)
Top Attacker
- 11 - Ahmed IKHBAYRI (LBY)
- 10 - Marlon YANT HERRERA (CUB)
- 9 - Gabriel Jose GARCIA FERNANDEZ (USA)
Top Blocker
- 9 - Robertlandy SIMON ATIES (CUB)
- 4 - Ricardo Lucarelli SANTOS DE SOUZA (BRA)
- 3 - Ahmed IKHBAYRI (LBY)
Top Server
- 4 - Robertlandy SIMON ATIES (CUB)
- 1 - Žiga DONIK (SLO)
- 1 - Rok BRAČKO (SLO)
Top Receiver
- 6 - Alan KOŠENINA (SLO)
- 4 - Fabio BALASO (ITA)
- 4 - Roland GERGYE (HUN)