Champions League: Benfica qualified to next round! Hebar eliminates Galati at Golden set!

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12 October 2022 Danijel90

Two of the four participants of the 3rd qualifying round of the 2023 CEV Volleyball Champions League are determined after today’s matches in Romania and Portugal today.

The Golden Set in Romania sent Bulgaria’s Hebar Pazardzhik to the next stage. The players commanded by Italian expert Camillo Placì defeated the home side of C.S. Arcada Galați 1-3 (25:27, 23:25, 25:17, 22:25) in the rematch of the 2nd round of qualifications, following a straight-set defeat at home. Thus, the additional set has to resolve things in Romania, and Hebar took it with a score of 15-10.
Todor Aleksiev top-scored the winners with 27 points, while Italian Jacopo Massari served 4 aces, and Nikolay Nikolov made 4 blocks. The German Daniel Malescha scored 15 points for Arcada. In the next round of the most prestigious club competition in Europe, the champions of Bulgaria will face either Croatia’s Mladost Zagreb or Switzerland’s Lindaren Volley Amriswil (the latter won the first leg by 3-1).

Portugal’s Sport Lisboa e Benfica reach qualification too.
At home in Lisbon, they prevailed against the Dutch side of Dynamo Apeldoorn by 3-0 (31:29, 25:16, 25:21) in the 2nd leg of the 2nd round of the qualification. Given they were successful on the road 3-1, Benfica scheduled a duel in the last qualifying round against the better team from a faceoff between Finland’s Ford Levoranta Sastamala and Austria’s SK Zadruga Aich/Dob, who won the first leg 3-2.
The Brazilian, Pablo Nathan Ventura top-scored the winners with 11 points, while his compatriot Lucas França Santos made 4 winning blocks.

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🏐| CEV Champions League 2022/23 | Early Round

🏐| First Leg

Tuesday | October 4, 2022

• Dynamo Apeldoorn (NED) – Sport Lisboa & Benfica (POR) 1-3 (12:25, 25:20, 18:25, 12:25)

| Wednesday | October 5, 2022
• SK Zadruga Aich/Dob (AUT) – Ford Levoranta Sastamala (FIN) 3-2 (16:25, 25:20, 25;23, 22:25, 19:17)
• Hebar Pazardzhik (BUL) – C.S. Arcada Galati (ROU) 0-3 (22:25, 19:25, 24:26)
• Lindaren Volley Amriswil (SUI) – HAOK Mladost Zagreb (CRO) 3-1 (25:18, 19:25, 25:21, 25:22)

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🏐| Second Leg

👉🏼 Wednesday | October 12, 2022

• 18.00 (Local Time) | C.S. Arcada Galati (ROU) – Hebar Pazardzhik (BUL) 1-3 (25:27, 23:25, 25:17, 22:25) GOLDEN SET: 10:15

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• 20.00 (Local Time) | Sport Lisboa & Benfica (POR) – Dynamo Apeldoorn (NED) 3-0 (31:29, 25:16, 25:21)