The second leg of the 2021-2022 Champions League women's volleyball semifinals is over. In the Turkish Super League derby between the Wakif Bank women's volleyball team and the Fenerbahce women's volleyball team, although Wakif lost 0-3, he won the opponent with the gold game, and after last year, he once again met the old rival Italian giant Conegliano in the final.
In this campaign, the Wakif Bank women's volleyball team sent Gabi, Hack, Zehra, Baci, Ozbay and Ogbo Valley to start the main team; Fenerbahce was led by Vargas, Fedorovtseva, Ida, Popovich and others. At the beginning of the first set, Wakif Bank was in trouble, and Gabi's attack was blocked consecutively, trailing 7-13. The point gap grew wider and wider, with Wakif losing 14-25.
In the second set, the Wakif Bank women's volleyball team still did not find the state, fenerbahce women's volleyball team was staged a variety of god-level defensive start-ups, the opening stage became a point difference, 16-11 into the middle of the game. At the end of the inning, Fenerbahce became more and more courageous, and Wakif was all kinds of mistakes and blocks, and finally Wakif lost another set 20-25.
In the third inning, Wakif Bank woke up like a dream, and with the opening 5-8 behind, played a small climax of scoring, taking a 16-15 lead. Fenerbahce withstood the momentum of the counterattack, saving consecutive match points after falling behind 22-24 and playing a wave of 6-2 scoring to win the third set 28-26, and the second leg 3-0 clean sheet waqif bank.
According to the rules of the Champions League, if both sides win one game each, they need to carry out a golden game. In the gold round, the Wakif Bank women's volleyball team withstood the pressure, the opening stage was in the leading position, the middle set opened the point difference, with Zehra blocking Vargas's strong attack, Wakif Bank 15-11 to kill the Fenerbahce women's volleyball team. The final will take place on 22 May in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
According to technical statistics, Waqif Bank slammed the ball 44-53 behind Fenerbahce, leading 10-9 in the net and trailing the opponent 2-5 on the serve. The two sides are almost the same in the rate of one pass, since the loss of points, Waqif Bank women's volleyball team 22 times, Fenerbahce women's volleyball team 19 times. It can be said that the Fenerbahce women's volleyball team has every opportunity to take advantage of the poor state of Wakif Bank and beat the opponent in the cold, but unfortunately failed to seize the opportunity.
In terms of individual points, Gabi scored 18 points on 2-of-16 of 33, Huck scored 18 points on 17-of-17, Baqi scored 5 points on 5-of-17, Ogbo Valley scored 0-of-4, Zehra scored 7 points on 2-of-10, Fenerbahce scored 26 points on 1 of 24-of-48, Fedorovtseva scored 18 points on 2-of-14 shots, and Ida scored 9 points on 10-of-8-of-10.
In this game, the reason why Wakif Bank lost three consecutive sets is related to the main team's dud. Haq in the second position, Baci in the fourth position, and Ogbo Valley in the third position did not show their due strength, but Gabi stepped forward in the Gold Round to help the team win. As a result, Gabby also earned the MVP title of the game.