Champions League, Imoco Volley eliminates the Police and qualifies for the top seeded quarterfinals

Antonio Carraro has no mercy on the Poles: 3-0 at Palaverde, Santarelli’s team has been unbeaten in Europe since May 2019

VILLORBA. Victory number six for A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano who last night, already sure of going to the next round, maintained their unbeaten run in the Champions League, which has lasted since the final in Berlin 2019. Once again 3-0 against the Police, so as on the outward journey. The Poles, who came to Palaverde to look for useful points to move on to the next phase of the tournament as one of the best second teams in the group, had to give up, not without giving a hard time.

Santarelli, also without Caravello for the evening – out due to a slight indisposition – took the field with Folie, Vuchkova, Wolosz, Egonu, Plummer, Courtney and De Gennaro. The block, which immediately took the measures well, helped the Gialloblù to create a first advantage: Egonu, closely followed by Vuchkova and Plummer (7-5). The attacks of Brakocevic (formerly on duty and Treviso by adoption, lives in Fontane), read and contained by the defense, gave confidence so much that Wolosz took advantage of it and had a lot of fun even in the center. The 16-9, the longest action of the match, came after several balls blocked by the Police and saved in the three meters by De Gennaro, held by the opposite Gialloblù on Folie’s dribble. A more determined Police and some errors in reception, with Plummer in difficulty, narrowed the gap until 18-17. The yellow and blue then closed the practice. At this point Santarelli has chosen to replace Plummer, definitely not in the evening, with his teammate Sylla, the protagonist of another very good test.

The second set was different, decidedly more closely fought, which opened in the name of Raphaela Folie, the protagonist of a match up to now with a single mistake in attack (4-3). It continued point by point until, with the help of the batting net, the Police took the lead for the first time (9-10), subsequently widening only slightly. Wolosz and her companions then managed to recover and go back under. The Poles, who remained in the game until 22-22, then saw the yellow-blues escape thanks to the attacks of the two power stations. T.

erzo set, another Gialloblù change: Omoruyi in place of Courtney. Mistakes and good plays on both sides made the teams continue point by point. The game then stopped for 10 minutes due to a problem with the electronic report: immediately on the pitch there was a nice curtain between fans and players who danced and joked on the choirs of their supporters to temper the moment. The Gialloblù, thanks to a good turn in Sylla, tried to lengthen the pace (17-15) but the Poles, decided to stay in the game, managed not to let them run away. An astonishing one-handed defense by Sylla and the finalization of Egonu then widened the lead of the Gialloblù up to 21-18, a decisive advantage that guaranteed the final victory, which came with a final block from Wolosz.

How the path of the Panthers will continue will only be known on Friday at 1 pm, when the draw for the quarter-finals phase with direct elimination will take place. The beauty has just begun. –