Russia (bbabo.net), - With the matches of the fourth round, our women's clubs opened the second round of the group stage of the Champions League. Kazan "Dynamo-Ak Bars" on the road confidently defeated the French "Beziers" - 3:0 (25:12, 25:17, 25:21), Kaliningrad "Locomotive" in a weakened composition and without a head coach lost at home to the German "Dresdner" - 1:3 (25:21, 20:25, 22:25, 22:25).
The team from the shores of the Baltic, acting in the quartet "A", got into a difficult situation. Even before the match with Dresdner, the All-Russian Volleyball Federation announced that due to positive tests for coronavirus in some representatives of Loko, the away match of the Super League with Dynamo Moscow, scheduled for January 23, is postponed to an indefinite date.
However, they still had to play in the Champions League. But without head coach Andrei Voronkov, volleyball players of the main team of his daughter Irina Voronkova, Yulia Brovkina, Tamara Zaitseva, Victoria Gorbacheva, Anastasia Zhabrova. To replace them, the application included girls from Lokomotiv-2, which plays in the major league "A".
In the game, one of the weak points of the hostess was the reception. The guests got 18 (!) points directly from the serve. Volleyball players of “Dresdner” quickly figured out all the weaknesses of the bled opponent and achieved victory. The chances of reaching the playoffs, which will include the winners of all five groups and three more teams from second place, are gradually disappearing for Loko - this was the second defeat.
Kazan girls in group "D" are all right so far - three wins. Perhaps it will not be possible to overtake the strong Turkish Fenerbahce, but Dynamo-Ak Bars should have good performance in second place.
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