Maliye Piyango, who scored a surprising win against the titleholders in the Turkish championship, Ziraat Bankası, last weekend, went on the road to Belarus with a comfortable 3-0 win from the 1st leg of the 2018 Challenge Cup – 8th finals.
But, in the rematch, the hosts Stroitel Minsk got themselves a 2-1 lead and came close to the golden set. But since the did not manage to win one more set, Maliye Piyango finished them off, 3-2 (26-24, 20-25, 15-25, 25-19, 15-12).
The Estonian Oliver Venno topped the Turkish side with 24 points. Kanstantsin Panasenko scored 16 points (2 aces, 3 kill blocks) for Stroitel.
One of the two main favorites to win the trophy (the other one advanced to the quarterfinals yesterday), Gazprom-Ugra Surgut from Russia, beat the Dutch Orion Doetinchem by a 3-0 in the rematch (3-1 in the 1st leg) to qualify for the quarterfinals.
CEV Challenge Cup 2017/2018 (Male)
MAIN PHASE / 8TH FINAL / 2ND LEG
DATE/TIME |
TEAMS |
SCORE |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
STATS |
31.01.20:00 |
SEESING PERSONEEL ORION DOETINCHEM / FIRMX ORION DOETINCHEM / LANGHENKEL DOETINCHEM |
0 3 |
20 25 |
14 25 |
17 25 |
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31.01.19:30 |
BIOGAS VOLLEY NÄFELS CONCORDIA MTV NÄFELS ; SEAT VOLLEY NÄFELS |
0 0 |
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31.01.20:00 |
3 0 |
25 21 |
25 21 |
25 20 |
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31.01.18:30 |
2 3 |
24 26 |
25 20 |
25 15 |
19 25 |
12 15 |
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01.02.18:00 |
0 0 |
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31.01.18:00 |
3 2 |
29 31 |
25 22 |
23 25 |
25 22 |
15 12 |
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31.01.20:30 |
0 0 |
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30.01.18:00 |
0 3 |
23 25 |
27 29 |
23 25 |
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