In the semi-finals of the 2021/2022 European Champions Challenge Cup, Scandic, the top italian team in the Italian Serie A, defeated Eden Metropolis club in the Turkish Superliga 3-0 (25-14/25-15/25-22) to reach the final with a two-legged 2-0 victory. Scandic's number one star, Russia's Andropova, scored 23 points, and although the FIVB and UEFA have been banning Russian players, Andropova is still the first player to play in this game, playing all the time! In another semi-final, Spanish league leader Laguna FC defeated Serbia's Obrenova 3-0 (25-22/25-16/25-16) to return to the final of the three major UEFA volleyball competitions after 18 years, with the final on March 16 and 23.
The semi-finals of the European Cup are divided into two legs, in the first leg of the game, Scandic and Aiden will play five full sets and finally Scandic won 3-2, this game the two teams originally thought to continue to fight, because of the excellent performance of 18-year-old talented girl Andropova, Scandic swept 3-0 early and quickly advanced to the final. At the end of last year, Andropova became the object of competition between the Russian and Italian volleyball associations, the height of 202CM coupled with fierce firepower, the future of the youngster was optimistic about the outside world, and finally the FIVB still determined that Andropova belonged to the Russian Volleyball Association.
Andropova in scandic club has been forced by the Italian women's volleyball national Pietrini and Brazilian Olympic champion Natalia, becoming the main scoring point, this game Andropova scored 23 points (33 deductions 18, 4 mistakes 1 blocked, 5 blocks 0 shots) as the receiving player, not only the offensive success rate of more than 50%, but also in the netting link of the end of the net is also very successful to limit the opponent's No. 4 attack, the whole game won 5 block points. Not long ago, the Russian Volleyball Association, clubs, and team members were banned by the International Volleyball Federation and the European Volleyball Federation, and it was thought that it would be difficult for Russian players to appear in the major leagues in Europe, but now it seems that they have not been affected for the time being and are still active on the field.
Scandic's two main attackers, Petrini scored 10 points with 8 of 19 dunks, 0 of 2 turnovers, 0 shots of 2 blocks, and 10 points, and Natalia scored 9 points of 6 of 21 dunks, 2 of 1 miss, and 0 shots of 3 blocks, both of whom had a mediocre success rate of the slam. Vice-attackers Biya and Lubian scored six and three points respectively, while The Italian international's second pass, Marinav, scored four points on 3-of-5.
Turkey Aiden will play average, only Stakmary 17 points (44 dunks 15, 3 turnovers 4 blocked, 2 blocks 0 shots) main attack Niccleti 22 dunks 7 shots, 4 turnovers 3 blocked only 7 points, Stevinson 15 dunks 4 shots, 3 turnovers 2 blocks 1 shot is also 7 points.
The reason why Scandic defeated Aiden Metropolis was to change the situation of the first leg of hard work, the net link 13-4 limited the opponent's attack, the attack 42-35 lead, the serve 0-1, the self-defeat score 11-20, but Aiden will lead by 36%-67% in the first pass, and in the other game, Spain's Laguna defeated Serbia's Obrenova 3-0, showing a dark horse posture.