Challenge Cup: Sporting lose in Germany but qualify for 1/8 finals

Sporting CP Lisboa is the 10th club to qualify for the eighth final of the 2021 CEV Volleyball Challenge Cup.
Portugal’s sode qualified despite having lost in Germany from Helios Grizzlys Giesen in the second leg of the round of 32. Given they won 3-0 in the first match at home, they only needed to take two sets in yesterday’s match. The final result was 3-2 (25:22, 21:25, 22:25, 25:18, 15:12) for the Germans.
Brazilian Paulo Victor Silva top-scored Sporting with 22 points. He included 4 blocks in his display, while His compatriot Victor Hugo Pereira also had 4 blocks.
The team from the Portuguese capital doesn’t know the name of the opponent yet. It will be either the Czech’s VK Lvi Praha or Latvia’s RTU-R Jūrmala (dates for their face-off not yet determined)….

📌| CEV Challenge Cup | 1/16 finals |

🗓| October 10
• UVC Weberzeile Ried – Marek Union Ivkoni Dupnitsa 0-3 (21:25, 16:25, 16:25)

🗓| November 2
• Gio Strumica – Omonia Nicosia 0-3 (20:25, 19:25, 18:25)

🗓| November 3

• Sporting Club de Portugal – Helios Grizzlys Giesen 3-0 (25:20, 25:22, 25:23)
Top Scorers: not avaible

• AS Cannes – Nantes (canceled for COVID)

• in Kamnik: OK Vardar Skopje – Calcit Volley Kamnik (canceled because the Slovenian federation suspended all competitions for two weeks)

• Second Leg | Omonia Nicosia – Gio Strumica (canceled)

🗓| November 4

• Halkbank Ankara – Hapoel Kfar Saba 3-1 (28:26, 25:19, 19:25, 25:17)
• VC Barkom-Kazhany Lviv – Dinamo Bucuresti 2-3 (25:22, 25:19, 21:25, 22:25, 9:15)
• Lindaren Luzern – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel 0-3 (18:25, 21:25, 19:25) (single match)
• 2nd leg: Calcit Volley Kamnik – OK Vardar Skopje (canceled because the Slovenian federation suspended all competitions for two weeks)

🗓| November 5
• RTU-R Jurmala – VK Lvi Praha (postponed? Praha quarantined…)

🗓| November 6
• 2nd Leg | In Ankara: Hapoel Kfar Saba – Halkbank Ankara 0-3 (29:27, 25:23, 26:24)

• 2nd Leg | In Jurmala: VK Lvi Praga – RTU-R Jurmala (postponed? Praha quarantined…)

🗓| November 10
• Second Leg | Helios Grizzlys Giesen — Sporting Lisboa 3-2 (25:22, 21:25, 22:25, 25:18, 15:12)
Top Scorers: Van Tilburg 22, Eshenko 14, Wagner 12, Mayaula Nzeza 12; Paulo Victor Costa Da Silva 22, Renan Purificacao 12, Robinson Dvoranen 11, Helio Lopes Sanches 10.

• Second Leg | Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel – Lindaren Luzern (canceled)

🗓| November 11
• Second Leg | Nantes – AS Cannes 2-3 (25:20, 18:25, 25:20, 28:30, 13:15)
• Second Leg | Dinamo Bucarest – VC Barkom-Kazhany Lviv (canceled)
• Ziraat Bankasi Ankara – A.J.F.Bastardo 3-1 (25:23, 23:25, 25:18, 25:21)

🗓| November 13
• in Ankara: Fonte Bastardo Azzorre – Ziraat Bankasi SK Ankara 3-2 (25:23, 21:25, 27:25, 22:25, 15:9)

• VRCK Kazincbarcika (forfait) – Benfica
Benfica to 1/8 finals
• Sollentuna – TIF Viking Bergen (forfait)
Sollentuna to 1/8 finals
• SK Jekabpils Lusi (forfait) – Allianz Powervolley Milano
Allianz Powervolley Milano to 1/8 finals
• Epicentr-Podolyany Horodok – OK Partizan Beograd (forfait)
Epicentr-Podolyany Horodok to 1/8 finals
• Saaremaa – Lausanne (forfait)
Saaremaa to 1/8 finals
• Parnu VK – Tiikerit Kokkola (forfait)
Parnu to 1/8 finals