Germany - VBL 1. Bundesliga 2016/17

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Münster - Stuttgart 0:3 (20, 18, 18 )
http://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2016-17/Women/&2006.pdf
MVP: Leonie Schwertmann / Michaela Mlejnkova

Very impressive game by Stuttgart despite playing pretty much without OPP, Aiyana Whitney didn't practise much during the week due to shoulder problems and Debbie Van Daelen had no impact either, but the OHs and MBs made up for it very well. Münster did a pretty poor job overall except for the beginning of 3rd set

Due to Münsters coach Andi Vollmer Stuttgart was just to strong for them - Renata Sandor with 50% and Michaela Mlejnkovà with 56% attack efficiency were excellent and also our middles Pissinato and Grant did fine indeed. So we could even do without opposite . By the way, Stuttgart was also superior in service.

There's a very good all-around OH like Kanani Danielson free.

I feel truly sorry for Hodanova, she actually showed up some positive process during the summer and now this just has happened

Really bad luck for Dresden: now they have enough money again with new main sponsor as replacement for Telekom, but they have hardly the chance to make use of it regarding their roster: it can take months to find a fitting player, if they succeed at all. This looks like a very bad season for DSC already, I'm pretty sure, they will play the last time CL this season before not qualfying for next and the opponents in their group are by far too strong there (best club of the world of the last 5 years or so VakifBank ISTANBUL, now twice in a row world club champion Eczacibasi VitrA ISTANBUL and Uralochka NTMK EKATERINBURG, one of the last really strong Russian teams). I hope, they manage at least to get to the semis in the championship...

Before DVV cup start: there are five "duels" between the professional first league clubs and the non-professionals of second league and I would be very surprised, if the favorites altogether lose a set at all (experience is against this). So three true fights remain:

In its hall Wolfsgrube (means wolves pitfall) the VfB (91) Suhl hosts the SC Potsdam, which is considered to be much stronger. Even with the home advantage Suhl will have a hard time to survive, I think.

USC Münster vs VC Wiesbaden is not that clear: it looks Wiesbaden is better in shape, but Münster is not that weak IMHO, as they looked against superior opponent Stuttgart at last.

Ladies in Black Aachen against Schwarz-Weiss Erfurt (SWE) is interesting in that regard, that in most cases such a rematch in short time ends vice versa than before, so let us wait, how this works out - a few days ago Erfurt did a surprise win there.

After end of this last match the draw for the quarters will be done immediately, setting up four first league duels...

Are there any news about MTV Stuttgart.

After the SuperCup I read somewhere that they might have two more premium sponsors.

No real surprise in first round of DVV cup: Potsdam wins in four in Wolfsgrube Suhl, the close fight with noticeable home advantage of the last playoffs between Münster and Wiesbaden continued and the hosts won again in tie-break, and Ladies in Black in Aachen could revenge against Erfurt. The last match result is okay for both, I think: Aachen wanted to get further badly, while the league results are for Erfurt more important. By the way, no professional first league team lost any set to the second league teams as expected, and some close sets are due to resting the strongest players of the favorites of course.

The draw for DVV cup is out: in all four quarter finals the guests are the favorites, interesting pairings anyway:

Dresden vs. Stuttgart
Münster vs. Schwerin
Aachen vs. Potsdam
Köpenick vs. Vilsbiburg

Matches are scheduled for Wednesday, the 9. November.

In Hamburg was Lisa Schwarz (VTH) and Louisa Lippmann (SSC) MVP.

The second and third Set was ok. The first Set was a little bit to fast for our Girls. Some Girls played in the third Division last Year and now they played against Hanke,Lippman and Co but i Think they can learn from this Match.

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Are there any news about MTV Stuttgart.

After the SuperCup I read somewhere that they might have two more premium sponsors.

I can assure you, we will be glad in Stuttgart, if we get a contract with at least one of those two potential sponsors at all - sponsoring market here is still ruined by the feeble soccer club VfB Stuttgart . If I hear anything for example tomorrow before or after match against Rote Raben Vilsbiburg, I will report of course.

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Schedule for the weekend:

28. Oktober 2016
19:00 Stuttgart - Vilsbiburg

29. Oktober 2016
18:00 Erfurt - VCO Berlin
18:00 Suhl - Aachen
19:00 Schwerin - Köpenick

30. Oktober 2016
14:30 Münster - Dresden
14:30 Potsdam - Wiesbaden
14:30 Suhl - VCO Berlin

All matches live on http://www.vbl.tv, Potsdam-Wiesbaden as match of the week with TV production.

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There are two groups of especially interesting matches among them IMHO, i.e. where no clear-cut favorite exists:

Münster - Dresden (both have won the German championship since unity 5 times each, important match for title defenders Dresden)
Potsdam - Wiesbaden (two contenders for the semis in the championship)

Suhl - Aachen should reveal some insights how these teams can perform

Have-to-win-matches, recommended with three points, for two contenders against vanishing from 1. League:

Erfurt - VCO
Suhl - VCO

Dresden with new media relation: DDV group is now officially joining the volleyball team, until now only some daughters like Dresdner Morgenpost (newspaper) were behind them:

http://www.dresdnersportclub.d…-mit-ddv-mediengruppe-ein

Considering the new name sponsor ENTIRETEC, which will be presented on Monday, it is as expected: next season they will have a bigger budget from the start, and they are threatening again all others in the league by economic superiority. It seems, that Schwerin currently can't grow any more, so it is likely, that sponsoring conditions in Stuttgart will be crucial, if Dresden can reign again like the last years, which seems impossible in the current season.