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    Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA - Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE

    Head-to-Head

    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE beat Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA 3-1 in the first match of this season's Champions League semi-finals in Kędzierzyn-Koźle on 29 March. Bartosz Bednorz (23) was Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE's top scorer in this match.
    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE and Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA had faced each other once before in the Champions League. In 2017/18, these teams contested the bronze medal match. In Kazan, the Italians (as Sir Colussi Sicoma PERUGIA) won in five sets. In that match, Aleksandar Atanasijević was the top scorer for Sir Colussi Sicoma PERUGIA on 24 points.
    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE have won 12 of their 29 Champions League matches against Italian opposition, including finals against TRENTINO Itas in 2021 and 2022. This season, Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE reached the Champions League semi-finals by eliminating Italian side TRENTINO Itas in the quarter-finals after a Golden Set.
    • Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA have won six of their eight Champions League matches against Polish opposition, with as exceptions 1-3 away defeats against PGE Skra BELCHATOW in 2014/15 and Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in this season's semi-finals first leg.


    Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA

    • Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA have reached the semi-finals for the sixth time in the last seven Champions League campaigns (exception 2019/20 season, which was cancelled before the semi-finals). They were eliminated by TRENTINO Itas in the semi-finals in the previous two seasons.
    • Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA only progressed to the final in 2016/17 (as Sir Sicoma Colussi PERUGIA). They suffered a 0-3 defeat in the final to a Zenit KAZAN team that included Wilfredo Leon Venero.
    • Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA's 1-3 loss at Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE on 29 March was the team's first Champions League defeat this season. JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel is the only team still undefeated this season.
    • Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA have played two Golden Sets in the Champions League. They won their 2020/21 quarter-finals Golden Set against Leo Shoes MODENA and lost their 2021/22 semi-finals Golden Set against TRENTINO Itas.
    • Kamil Semeniuk won the Champions League with Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the last two seasons. He was the top scorer in last season's final on 27 points.
    • Oleh Plotnytskyi (105) is Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA's top scorer in this season's Champions League. His total is points tally is fewer than half of Łukasz Kaczmarek's tally of 214, Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE's top scorer and overall Champions League top scorer this season.
    • Plotnytskyi has made 21 aces this Champions League campaign, at least three more than any other player. Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE's best servers this season are Bartosz Bednorz and David Smith (12 aces each)
    • Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA is the only team this Champions League season to average more than two aces per set (2.2).

     

    Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE

    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE can become the third side to win three successive Champions League titles (since 2000/01), following TRENTINO Volley (2008/09) / TRENTINO BetClic (2009/10-2010/11) (now TRENTINO Itas) from 2008/09 to 2010/11 (3) and Zenit KAZAN from 2014/15 to 2017/18 (4).
    • In Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE's last two seasons, they only lost four Champions League matches (2 in each season) on their way to the title. This season they have already lost four (of which three versus TRENTINO Itas).
    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE have won each of their last eight Champions League knockout ties (including an awarded tie against Dinamo Moscow in 2021/22), since a 4-5 aggregate loss against Kuzbass KEMEROVO in the quarter-finals of 2019/20 (last fixtures before the competition was halted due to COVID-19).
    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE played three Champions League Golden Sets, winning all of them: against Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA and Zenit KAZAN in the 2020/21 quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively, and versus TRENTINO Itas in this season's quarter-finals.
    • Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE (136) are the only team to have scored at least 100 points from kill blocks in this Champions League campaign.
    • Łukasz Kaczmarek is this season's top scorer in the Champions League on 214 points, the most points by a man in a Champions League season since Aleksandar Atanasijević (271 for Sir Colussi Sicoma PERUGIA) and Maurice Armando Torres (219 for Zaksa KEDZIERZYN-KOZLE) in 2017/18.

    “We are facing a very complicated match against the two champions of the Champions League, a very tested team and an extraordinary club that is making history at European level. We know very well that we will have to play a great match. We have won the fact of being able to play the important and decisive matches at the PalaBarton and this must be an advantage that we will try to exploit. A great support from our public will be essential".

    Andrea Anastasi
    Head Coach Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA

    “We face a very very strong team. Zaksa are the champions of the Champions League, we know them well and they know us well. A tough, complicated, difficult match awaits us, but we have the chance to win and go to the final, we believe in it and we will do everything to succeed. We will have to play all together, who will be on the taraflex and who will be off, from the first to the last point. And we need a very warm PalaBarton".

    Oleh Plotnytskyi
    Outside Hitter Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA
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    • All Time
    • 10
      Competitions Played
    • 1
      Titles
    • Competition
    • 10
      Matches Played
    • 8
      Matches Won
    • 80%
      Win %
    • 26
      Sets Won
    • 930
      Points Won
    • 49%
      Attack %
    • 37%
      Reception %

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    9
    LEON VENERO Wilfredo
    Outside spiker
    • Birth Date: 1993
    • Birth Place: Santiago de Cuba
    • Height: 201 cm
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    5
    PLOTNYTSKYI Oleh
    Outside spiker
    • Birth Date: 1997
    • Birth Place: Vinnitskyi Region
    • Height: 195 cm
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    6
    GIANNELLI Simone
    Setter
    • Birth Date: 1996
    • Birth Place: Bolzano
    • Height: 199 cm
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    8
    RYCHLICKI Kamil
    Opposite
    • Birth Date: 1996
    • Birth Place: Ettelbruck
    • Height: 204 cm
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    10
    PICCINELLI Alessandro
    Libero
    • Birth Date: 1997
    • Height: 192 cm
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    11
    SOLE' Sebastian
    Middle blocker
    • Birth Date: 1991
    • Birth Place: Rosario, Santa Fe
    • Height: 202 cm
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    12
    HERRERA JAIME Jesus
    Opposite
    • Birth Date: 1995
    • Birth Place: La Habana
    • Height: 196 cm
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    13
    COLACI Massimo Vito
    Libero
    • Birth Date: 1985
    • Birth Place: Gagliano del Capo (LE)
    • Height: 180 cm
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    16
    SEMENIUK Kamil
    Outside spiker
    • Birth Date: 1996
    • Height: 194 cm
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    20
    ROPRET Gregor
    Setter
    • Birth Date: 1989
    • Birth Place: SLOVENIA
    • Height: 192 cm
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    23
    MENGOZZI Stefano
    Middle blocker
    • Birth Date: 1985
    • Height: 205 cm
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    GUALBERTO Flavio cesar
    Middle blocker
    • Birth Date: 1993
    • Height: 200 cm
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    ANASTASI Andrea
    Head Coach
    PIACENTINI Andrea
    Assistant Coach 2
    VALENTINI Antonio
    Assistant Coach

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    Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE

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    Match Report

    Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA v Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE

    Article 6 April 2023

    Defending men’s CEV Champions League Volley crown-holders from 2021 and 2022 Grupa Azoty Kedzierzyn-Kozle made it to their third consecutive Super Final after a 3-1 (25-23, 25-18, 19-25, 27-25) away win over Italy’s Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia at the Pala Barton on Thursday. Actually, after winning the home game last week in four sets, ZAKSA secured advancement as soon as they won the first two sets in Perugia to set up an all-Polish duel with Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj in the Super Final on May 20 in Turin, Italy. It will be the first time in history two Polish teams go head to head in a Champions League final.


    The first set offered a fierce nip-and-tuck battle with the lead going back and forth. Grupa Azoty’s Bartosz Bednorz was on fire in attack, scoring 100% of his opportunities, including a successful pipe that brought in set point at 24-23. A kill block by David Smith finished the set off at 25-23 ZAKSA’s way.


    The second set started better for the home team and they ran off with an 8-4 advantage. After 10-6, however, Grupa Azoty went on a scoring streak, with Smith behind the serving line, to put away seven points in a row and jump in front with a 13-10 lead, which they no longer let go of. At the end of the set, another series of five points was crowned with a kill block by Dmitrii Pashitskii for a 25-18 win, which sent the Polish team celebrating their third consecutive Champions League final.


    The two coaches completely changed their line-ups for the next sets. The home team gained total control during the third set and with six points from Jesus Herrera, including the set winner, they took it by 25-18. The fourth set was a tight battle with several changes in the lead before it was pushed to overtime. Setter Przemyslaw Stepien brought in ZAKSA’s first match point with a monster block for 26-25 and then Sir’s attack went long to put an end to the game at 27-25 Grupa Azoty’s way.


    Grupa Azoty’s Bartosz Bednorz and Sir’s Jesus Herrera shared the top scorer honours with 13 points each, and the Most Valuable Player award went to the Polish team’s setter Marcin Janusz.

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    “We are extremely disappointed because we did not play our best. They played better than us in the crucial moments. ZAKSA deserves to be in the final. They played better than us in both matches. Now we have to move on and set our mind on the Italian Superlega matches.”

    Simone Giannelli
    Setter and captain of Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia

    The match in numbers

    135
    Points

    The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.

    105
    Duration

    The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.

    3681
    Spectators

    Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.

    201
    Match Spikes

    The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.

    39%
    Reception Level

    An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.

    11-14
    Net Domination

    The number of successful point winning blocks of Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA compared to Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE.

    7-5
    Ace Count

    Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA number of service aces compared to Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE

    54-50
    Error Difference

    Errors leading to points of Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA, next to those from Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE