On Thursday the teams of VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN and MONTPELLIER HSC VB met in the #CLVolleyM match, for the first time this season. VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN is the only team in Pool A who had lifted the trophy from Europe’s top competition and on the other hand, the French team is the debutant in Round 4 of this competition. In the end, it was a German team with a 3:2 win (20-25, 20-25, 25-22, 25-23, 15-11).

The French team made a mark in the first set since they didn’t let go of their advantage and were holding onto it until the very end of the set. With two aces they’ve shown their fightness which they’ve transferred into the second set as well.

Montpellier took an early lead in the next set and was in the advantage until the middle of the set when VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN equalized everything but it still wasn’t enough to take the win since the guys from France had three kill blocks. VfB Friedrichshafen now needed two sets to find their own strength.

The third set started off as a cat-and-mouse game where both teams were pretty sufficient in the attacks and the defense. In the middle of the set that changed and VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN took the matter into their own hands, and with three aces and two kill blocks and they managed to take this set (25:22).

The German team “explode” in the fourth set and statistics are real proof of that: six kill blocks, three aces, and a 25:23 score in the end. Now, everything was tied and the fifth one was supposed to decide the winner of the match. The Germans walked into this set better, with a lot of confidence, and secured the first win this season!