Paola Egonu, it’s time for the Champions quarterfinals.
Paola Egonu in Champions
The lights of CEV Champions League 2024 are turned on again for’Allianz Vero Volley Milan, leaving for Poland and ready to play, tomorrow, Tuesday, February 20, at 6 pm.00 (live DAZN), on the mondoflex of the Lodz Sport Arena against LKS Commercecon Lodz for the first leg of the Quarterfinals of the top continental club competition. After the defeat in the Italian Cup Final against Conegliano, staged less than 24 hours ago in Trieste, Orro and her teammates arrive at the European appointment eager for revenge.
Having clinched first place in Pool A, thanks to a haul of five wins and only one loss, the pink ladies aspire, in their third season in a row in the Champions League, to improve on last season’s path interrupted right at the Quarterfinals at the hands of the Turkish VakifBank Istanbul. To do so, Milan è aware that it must express its best volleyball, pushing hard on serve and a solid wall-defense correlation, useful to facilitate the break phase and take home a valuable result in view of the return, set on Thursday, 29, at 8 p.m., at the Allianz Cloud in Milan. Paola Egonu (118 points scored) è was the top scorer for Allianz Vero Volley Milan in the group stage, ahead of U.S. center Dana Rettke with 61 points. Whoever passes the round, faces the winner of Stuttgart vs. Fenerbahce.
It is an absolute first between the two formations, with the Polish team that è managed to get through the group stage for the second time, after clinching the playoffs last year where it was defeated by VakifBank Istanbul with a 0-3 double. Lodz è came out defeated in the previous six confrontations with Italian teams (all in the group stage). The team led by coach Alessandro Chiappini, aims to become the second Polish team in history to reach the Champions League semifinals, after Chemnik Police defeated by Busto Arsizio in the 2014/2015 season. Lodz è currently ranks fourth among Polish teams with the most wins in the CEV Champions League (19): in first place is Chemnik Police (28), followed by Rzeszow (21) and Muszyna (20). The top scorer of the Polish team è Italy’s Valentina Diouf, the best scorer of the group stage with 135 points scored, matching Ekaterina Antropova of Savino Del Bene Scandicci.
