Novara is in the semis, they won the first two sets, what was sufficient to proceed to the semis after winning the first match in Stuttgart already with all three points.
Posts by StefanS
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But honestly it was rather boring: when we knew all participants, we knew already that Chieri would get the title and they just did... too low quality of competition, worsened by a really bad drawn tournament tree...
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Neuwied's manager said that most of their team will stay for next season.
Not exactly good news for the league
IMO only Madsen, Anderson and Single have the level for 1st league.Yes, if any team from first league should go down to second pro, it would be Neuwied and not Erfurt.
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Stuttgart needs just two sets resp. one point in one of the last two matches against Vilsbiburg or in Dresden to secure the league round win.
Schwerin vs. Potsdam will determine the second place, any win for any of both will suffice for it.
Dresden is the fourth team safely in the playoffs despite losing in Vilsbiburg and has good chances to stay as fourth in table.
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Erfurt will play 2nd League next year.
This doesn't make any sense for me - where this information does come from?
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After so many years, fener finally has a great chance to win the title this year.. This is a awesome team~~
Don't forget Turkish league leader Eczacibasi.
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In Stuttgart Porsche Arena is very expensive and difficult to book with short time ahead, which is mostly the case. And a new 4.000 seats hall, more suitable for such special matches, is only remotely planned, will take many years to build.
Erfurt has IMHO no reason to go down to second league pro - they have an acceptable hall and enough money to compete for playoff berths, as we have seen this season. Regarding Neuwied it seems possible, that they go down to second league pro, considering how much they trail the other first league teams.
Therefore without Straubing and maybe Neuwied we may have only 10 teams in first league net season, but the season after should see at least one, maybe more applicants for first league coming from second league pro.
If these are so few, the VBL may be decide to carry on with best of five even in quarters to make the number of matches not too low.
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Second set mainly won by service streak of Carcaces.
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volleyball.it writes that Jolien Knollema and Camilla Weitzel will play for Stuttgart next season
I was convinced, that Camilla is too expensive even for Stuttgart to get her back from Italy - a real surprise. - This means, that at least one of the two top middles of Stuttgart will leave, most likely Eline Timmerman.
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Display MoreI just stumbled upon the slots allocation for 2024:
https://webmedia.cev.eu/media/…lots-allocation-final.pdf
I wonder why France is ahead of Germany in the rankings. How does Ukraine manage to be close to Germany?
Is there any complete explanation how this works?
France's advantage might be that they had two teams in all three years. So if it's total points then that might explain why France is ahead of Germany. But then Ukraine's points should be much lower than Germany's.
The volleyball competitions regulations did not really clarify this for me.
https://webmedia.cev.eu/media/…egulations_15-06-2022.pdf
Apparently you get 2 points for a win, 1 for a loss and 10/8 bonus points per round in CL.
I think Germany suffers from two drawbacks: some years ago neither Schwerin ("not cost-effective") nor Stuttgart (not affordable) took part in CL and in Corona times one year was likely cancelled overall, when Stuttgart qualified for the quarters, so that success didn't count officially. Therefore VBL (German league) is underrated now, partly due to own fault, partly due to bad luck. I hope, with this years result ranking will improve for the next CL season.
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In sports reality often beats expectations... this is indeed a major upset and I thinks also, that Potsdam didn't enough load balancing (sorry for the technical expression) between players at this high match number they were forced to play. Now Schwerin could manage to overtake them when they can get three points out of Dresden in the next match... and yes, this means Suhl is not out of chances to take away the last playoff spot from Vilsbiburg now. The bad luck for Suhl with a considerable losing streak around the first third of league round was robbing them nearly completely off their chances to make it.
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Considering the remaining matches the most likely outcome is: aside from Neuwied Suhl and Erfurt will also miss the playoffs, Vilsbiburg will be eighth, Stuttgart first, decision of Potsdam or Schwerin as second and third may be in the duel in Schwerin, despite Schwerin has overall the tougher remaining schedule (including match against Dresden), Dresden will probably stay before Aachen, because both have no easy remainder in the league round and Dresden being ahead now; Wiesbaden might have a small advantage against Münster due to the remaining matches regarding places 6 and 7. That would mean overall a quarter Stuttgart vs. Vilsbiburg and most likely semis of Potsdam and Schwerin, who of the latter two will have the home advantage than, is not so easy to tell... Stuttgart should get into the finals anyway (what they do for many years now in sucsession). Another quarter will be highly likely Dresden vs. Aachen. The number of matches to play is not balanced since Straubing was kicked off the league of course.
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Aachen - Dresden 0:3 (13, 22, 18)
https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2022-23/Women/2103.pdf
MVP: Annie Cesar / Lara Berger
Linda Bock playing as libero even though Dreblow and Lohmann both were in the roster gives me hope
Neuwied - Stuttgart 0:3 (20, 12, 17)
https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2022-23/Women/2108.pdf
MVP: Klara Single / Marie Schölzel
Münster - Wiesbaden 3:2 (20:25 13:25 25:22 25:20 15:11)
https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2022-23/Women/2106.pdf
MVP: Iris Scholten / Rachel Anderson
With this victory Münster should have secured their spot in the playoffs, Suhl would have to take 3 wins with 9 points from their remaining 4 matches and looking at the opponents it's rather unlikely...
Espescially because Potsdam should defeat Suhl today with straight points.
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Novara is still favorite against Stuttgart, but it might prove difficult for them to win anyway.
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If Fener’s passing wont hold up, they will be destroyed by Imoco. And that’s my bold statement
. Is there a possibility of Ecz and Imoco meeting in the finals?That's possible and currently I consider it the most likely final (Conegliano vs. Eczacibasi).
If Fener’s passing wont hold up, they will be destroyed by Imoco. And that’s my bold statement
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Semis are most likely Conegliano vs. VakifBank and Eczacibasi vs. Novara IMHO, but of course aside from Eczacibasi vs. Rzeszow in the quarters there are chances for the three other underdogs too.
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Erfurt - Suhl 0:3 (19, 21, 19)
https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2022-23/Women/2119.pdf
MVP: Vera Mulder / Yurika Bamba
With this result, Suhl's hopes to still reach the playoffs stay alive whereas Erfurt's chances at this point are purely mathematical. Looking at the ranking, Münster, Vilsbiburg and Suhl will fight for two spots in the playoffs. Münster has by far the hardest schedule remaining with matches against Wiesbaden, Schwerin, Dresden and Potsdam, but three of the matches are at home. On the last round of regular season there will be Vilsbiburg vs Suhl, so this might become a real do-or-die match depending on the results until then.
But first, tomorrow we'll have the Cup final Potsdam vs Schwerin
16:45 CET, stream (free with registration) starting 16:30.IMO everything is possible, both teams are on pretty much the same level and I think whoever will be able to prevent the opponent from using their strengths will win. Van Aalen vs Kästner, Pogany vs Jegdic are absolutely equal fights, at OH position both teams have three very good players (I wonder if Hölzig will get to start for Schwerin) and also the middles are almost equal with maybe a little advantage for Potsdam at MB2 (Savic vs White). For me the potentially biggest difference is Nemeth vs Yüzgenc at OPP, but Nemeth hasn't been too impressive lately and for example Stuttgart managed to completely neutralise her.
Either way, I hope for an exciting, balanced high level match
On LiveScore.in Potsdam has the slightly better quotes and I agree with that. Overall Potsdam has shown in the season being better as Schwerin.
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Surprise win by Volero in three sets against Rzeszow, because the French champions have overall a bad season compared to the previous one.
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Suhl was without any chance at home against top favorite Chieri as expected: three times 17- . It seems, it will be an easy title for Chieri, because the other two semi final participants are no way stronger...