Head-to-Head
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel and VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN met five times before in the Champions League. JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won each of the last four meetings, after VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN clinched a 3-1 victory in the first meeting in December 2009.
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have only claimed as many Champions League wins versus Zenit KAZAN (4) as against VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (4).
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel beat VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN 3-1 in this season's reverse Champions League fixture on 29 November. Stephen Boyer was the top scorer in that match on 29 points.
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have a W6-L5 record against German opposition in the Champions League. This includes two losses due to forfeit against BERLIN Recycling Volleys in the 2020/21 group stage, due to COVID-19 infections.
· VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN are on a 14-match losing streak in the Champions League against Polish opposition. Their most recent win against a Polish team was aforementioned victory in the first meeting with JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in 2009.
JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won 13 of their 15 Champions League matches since the start of the 2021/22 edition. The only exceptions are two losses against their compatriots Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in last season's semi-finals.
· Excluding their forfeits in the 2020/21 edition, JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have not lost a Champions League group stage since 12 February 2020, when VC Greenyard MAASEIK beat them 2-3 in Belgium.
· JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won all their five Champions League matches this season and have already qualified for the quarter-finals as a result.
· Stephen Boyer (77) is the leading points scorer for JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in this season's Champions League, scoring 4.53 points per set on average.
· Tomasz Fornal (126) scored the most points for JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in last season's Champions League, averaging 3.94 points per set.
· Eemi Tervaportii (61.43%) is among the most efficient setters in this season's Champions League. VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN's Dejan Vincic has a 41.71% efficiency rate in this season's group stage.
· Benjamin Toniutti played for VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (2015), winning the German title and German domestic cup in his short spell at the club.
VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
· VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN won four of their five Champions League games this season. Before that run, VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN's only win in 10 Champions League matches was awarded due to a forfeit by Hebar PAZARDZHIK.
· VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN are guaranteed to progress to the Playoff 6 round. They had not survived the Champions League group stage since 2017/18, when they were eliminated by Zaksa KEDZIERZYN-KOZLE in the Playoff 6 round (2-3 and 0-3 defeats).
· VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN can win three successive Champions League matches for the first time since a 10-match winning streak in that 2017/18 campaign.
· Michal Superlak (75) is the leading points scorer for VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN in this season's Champions League, averaging 3.57 points per set.
· Coming into this matchround, Aleksandar Nedeljković (17) and André Brown (16) have recorded the most kill blocks in the 2022/23 Champions League group stage.
· Nedeljković (17) and André Brown (16) recorded 33 kill blocks combined in this season's Champions League group stage, only one fewer than the complete JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel squad (34).
· VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN's coach Mark Lebedew coached JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel from 2015 to 2018. He led the club to a third place in the Polish championship in the 2016/17 season.
· Lebedew won all four matches with JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in the 2017/18 Champions League by a 3-0 scoreline before he got sacked in January 2018. He guided them to the group stage thanks to two wins over Omonia NICOSIA and defeated both BERLIN Recycling Volleys and Spacer's TOULOUSE VB in the group phase.
Mark Lebedew"We come to Jastrzębie relaxed, because we know that we are sure of the second round and because it is Poland and Jastrzębie and we know that everything is good there. There will be a good match. But we also come competitive, to win the match, because we know the better are results in the match the better is position in our draw for the next round. We come to do the best that we can do to get the good position for the second round, but relaxed knowing that we are already in the second round"
Head Coach VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
Michał Superlak"Our goal for this match will be the fight for points, because in this season the system has been arranged in such a way that our next opponent will be decided by the ranking between the teams that will reach the 1/8 finals. So the more points we have, the theoretically easier opponent we should face in the next round"
Opposite VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
Marcelo Mendez"For the club, players and staff all three competitions are important: Polish Cup, PlusLiga and Champions League. We secured first place in the group in European competitions, so now we are just waiting for the next game and the quarter-finals. At once, in the last match of the group stage of the Champions League, we want to fight for victory and the highest possible ranking among the teams from the first places"
Head Coach JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel
Jakub Popiwczak"We can still win everything in this season, we have big potencial and great team that is able to reach all the goals, so we look only positively to the future"
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JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel v VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
The match in numbers
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The number of successful point winning blocks of JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel compared to VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN.
JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel number of service aces compared to VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
Errors leading to points of JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel, next to those from VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
Mark Lebedew„It was good quality match, both teams played well, but Jastrzębski played better, specially at the end of the sets. We had our chances, but it is not enough to play well for part of the sets against such a quality team like Jastrzębski Węgiel”
head coach of VfB Friedrichshafen
Michał Superlak„It was close and even match and it’s a pity for us that we lost those ends of the sets two and three, in spite of earlier leading. In some momments we did easy mistakes and another thing is that we are missing regural clashes against such strong team like Jastrzębski Węgiel every week. The team from Jastrzębski is used to often play such a stron rivarly in PlusLiga”
opposite of VfB Friedrichshafen
Tomasz Fornal„We are winning in straight three sets which gives us a chances for being the firts team in the ranking of the winners of the groups. We are glad about that, because theoretically we can face easier oponent in the quarterfinal.”
MVP and outside hitter of Jastrzębski Węgiel
Benjamin Toniutti„It is important how we reacted today in difficult moments. It will be liked this a lot of times during the season and we have to stay in the game and this is really good point of today. They played good game, it’s physical team, putting a lot of pressure, not doing a lot of mistakes. So today it was not the best Jastrzębski, but Jastrzębski focused and being together untill the end”
captain of Jastrzebski Węgiel