TRENTINO Itas - Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE (16 Mar 2023)
Head-to-Head
- Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE defeated TRENTINO Itas 3-2 in the first leg in Poland on 7 March. Lukasz Kaczmarek was the top scorer on 23 points for the home side. Matey Kaziyski had 21 points for the visitors.
- Last week's success for Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE tips the balance of Champions League encounters between the sides in their favour. The Polish side have now won six to TRENTINO Itas' five.
- These sides have only met at the knockout stage of the Champions League on two previous occasions, the final in 2021 and 2022. Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE won in both years; 3-1 in 2021 and 3-0 in 2022.
- Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE lost both matches against TRENTINO Itas in this season's Champions League group stage: 1-3 in Italy and 2-3 in Poland. Alessandro Michieletto (21) and Lukasz Kaczmarek (21) were their team's top scorers in the match in Trento and Bartosz Bednorz (23) and Michieletto (20) in the match in Poland.
- These sides have won five of the last 13 Champions League titles. TRENTINO Itas were known as TRENTINO Volley / BetClic for their three from 2008/09 - 2010/11.
- Daniele Lavia, Alessandro Michieletto, and Riccardo Sbertoli (TRENTINO Itas) are likely to again be in opposition of Lukasz Kaczmarek, Marcin Janusz, Aleksander Śliwka (Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE), just like they were in the final of the 2022 World Championships in Katowice on 11 September. Italy beat Poland 3-1 in that final.
TRENTINO Itas
- Before last week's quarter-finals first leg TRENTINO Itas had won each of their six group stage games, dropping only four sets. Three of those sets came against Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE across two group stage matches.
- The last time TRENTINO Itas lost the first leg of a Champions League knockout phase game was as TRENTINO Diatec in 2017/18. They went down 1-3 at Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA in the first leg of their Playoff game before losing the second leg 2-3 at home.
- TRENTINO Itas have progressed from all three of their previous quarter-final appearances (2008/09, 2020/21 and 2021/22).
- Of the teams in this season's quarter-finals, only Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA (85%) have a higher winning percentage in Champions League history than TRENTINO Itas (77%).
- TRENTINO Itas can become the third team to win the Champions League the season after finishing as runners-up, after Zenit KAZAN in 2011/12 and Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA in 2018/19.
- Alessandro Michieletto is the team's top scorer this season on 90 points. He was the Champions League top scorer in 2021/22 on 181 points. In 2020/21 Nimir Abdel-Aziz (TRENTINO Itas) was the leading Champions League scorer on 209 points.
Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE
- Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE can become the third side this century to win three successive Champions League titles following TRENTINO Volley / BetClic (now TRENTINO Itas) from 2008/09 - 2010/11 (3) and Zenit KAZAN from 2014/15 - 2017/18 (4).
- In Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE's previous two seasons they only lost four Champions League matches (2 in each season) on their way to the title. This season they have already lost three (including both group stage matches against TRENTINO Itas).
- Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE have won each of their last seven Champions League knockout ties (including an awarded tie against Dinamo Moscow in 2021/22) since a a 4-5 aggregate loss against Kuzbass KEMEROVO in the quarter-finals of 2019/20 (last fixtures before the competition was halted due to COVID-19).
- Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE (102) are the only team to have scored more than 100 points from kill blocks in this Champions League campaign.
- Lukasz Kaczmarek is this season's top Champions League points scorer with 173 points. That is already more points than their top scorer in both their last two title-winning seasons had; Kamil Semeniuk (168 in 2020/21 and 150 in 2021/22).
Angelo Lorenzetti“The first leg’s match was highly-fought, and there were plenty of overturns, but it has given us a result that allows us to go on with the race to the qualifications and gives us a few more chances. We will have to play a tough game to prevail over a very close team that always plays powerful volleyball and never drops below a certain level. We will give everything because we want to continue our European run.”
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