European cups
2015 DenizBank Champions League
PlayOffs 6
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk (RUS) – Asseco Resovia Rzeszow (POL)
Sir Safety Perugia (ITA) – PGE Skra Belchatow (POL)
Zenit Kazan (RUS) – Halkbank Ankara (TUR)
Italy versus Poland, Act III. Perugia overcame Jastrzebski in the playoffs 12 and will now take on Belchatow, the reigning Polish champion. The latter got rid of Treia in the last round with two convincing victories, useless to say this is a top class team. Atanasijevic knows the club very well and the amazing atmosphere there is on their home games as he played for Belchatow for two years before joining Perugia. But no doubt there will be a packed arena too in Perugia to push the team towards a historical result.
PlayOffs 6 first leg
Wednesday March 4 at 8.30pm
Sir Safety Perugia (ITA) – PGE Skra Belchatow (POL) Differed on Fox Sports 2 HD
(Van Gompel-Gril)
2015 CEV Cup
Challenge Round
Volley behappy2 Asse-Lennik (BEL) – Precura Antwerp (BEL)
Dinamo Moscow (RUS) – Fenerbahce SK. Istanbul (TUR)
Energy T.I. Diatec Trentino (ITA) – Knack Roeselare (BEL)
Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle (POL) – Cai Teruel (ESP)
Trentino made its way to the Challenge round by knocking off the Romanian side of Craiova. But now comes the toughest moment of the competition as four teams come down from the Champions League. Birarelli and co will face the Belgium team of Roeselare, who finished third of its group in the Champions League behind Piacenza. Trento will be without the injured Lanza for the first leg to be played at home.
Challenge Round first leg
Thursday March 5 at 8.30pm
Energy T.I. Diatec Trentino (ITA) – Knack Roeselare (BEL)
(Marin-Senyurt)
2015 CEV Challenge Cup
Quarter-finals
Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB) – CMC Ravenna (ITA)
Benfica Lisboa (POR) – Ethnikos Alexandropoulis (GRE)
Galatasaray Fxtcr Istanbul (TUR) – Vojvodina NS Seme Novi Sad (SRB)
Maliye Milli Piyango Ankara (TUR) – Stroitel Minsk (BLR)
Ravenna is off to Serbia for the Challenge cup quarter-final first leg, in which they will take on Red Star Belgrade. The Serbian squad is packed with young talented players, who disposed of the Israelian side of Hapoel Mate Ahser Akko, then Loimu Raisio (Finaland) and Kaposvar (Hungary) in the previous rounds. Red Star lost five on the bounce in their league. Enrico Cester will make the trip with ravenna but won’t play due to a hand injury. The winner of this tie will take on the winner of Benfica versus Alexandroupolis.
Quarter-finals first leg
Wednesday March 4 at 6pm
Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB) – CMC Ravenna (ITA)
(Probst-Ryabtsov)
