On March 9, the first leg of the 2021-2022 women's volleyball Champions League quarterfinals began. In a match between Turkish giants Vakifbank and Polish powerhouse Rzeszów, Vakif squandered 2 match points and was completed by his opponents to complete a big reversal, losing 2-3 and breaking the scoring. The score was 25-13/27-29/25-19/27-29/13-15 in five sets.
In this game, although Rzeszów is a regular in the Champions League, few fans are optimistic that they can be upset, especially against top giants such as Waqif Bank. In this campaign, Vakif sent out famous players such as Huckle, Gabi, Baci, Zehra, etc.; Rzeszów's starting lineup was Bayema, Blagojevich, Stenzel and others.
In the first set, Wakif Bank played smoothly and was not challenged. In the middle of the game, he led the opponent 16-9, and then continued to extend the lead, entering the key points at the end of the set at 21-9. Although Rzeszów has a slight upturn after that, but helplessly left behind too much at the beginning, the big score lost the first set; in the second set, the two sides formed a balance of power, the score was also alternately rising, the difference between the two teams at the end of the game was only 1 point, and finally Rzeschoff seized the opportunity and won 2 points to win back a set.
In the third set, Wakif Bank completed the counter-overtaking into the final stage of the innings after the start, and used the strategy of blocking with the serve belt to seize the opportunity to counterattack and bring the total score to 2-1; in the fourth set, Wakif Bank established a 3-point lead in the middle of the innings, but unfortunately it was chased to only 1 point at the end of the set, fortunately, the team took the lead in getting the match point, but the key point grasp ability was not strong, and in the case of wasting 2 match points, it was chased by the opponent to 2-2 draw. In the decider, the two sides were tightly matched, and at the crucial moment, Rzeszów seized a counter-attack opportunity to win the whole game.
According to the technical statistics of the whole field, the total score of Wakif Bank is 12 points more than that of Rzeszów, but it is still difficult to escape the fate of defeat. In addition, in terms of slams, nets and serves, Wakif Bank is also fully dominant, slamming 76-60 ahead of opponents by 16 points, blocking nets 16-11 leading opponents by 5 points, and serving 5-3 leading opponents by 2 points. So why lose inexplicably when you are leading across the board? The main reason is still too much self-loss, Wakif Bank lost 31 times, and Rzeszów lost 20 times.
In terms of personal technical statistics, Sweden received a game-high 31 points for Haq 60 on 25-of-5, Gabi for 26 points on 23-of-23 for 1 shot, Bazi for 16 points for 3 shots on 32 bucks, 16 points for Ogbogu 13 for 4 of 6 shots, Zehra for 10 points on 16 out of 9 for 10 points, Reshuv for Bayema for 2 of 49 dunks and 2 blocks for 18 shots, and Blagoevic had 17 points on 17 of 62 dunks. Stenzell scored 17 points on 22-of-13, and Bruner scored 14 points on 2-of-29 shooting, 2-of-2. For more exciting content, come and follow Volleyball GoldenEye