Without Orro Milan knocked out in Turkey. Egonu 14 points as former

Milan knockout in Turkey

Numia Vero Volley Milan failed to close the first round of Pool C in the CEV Champions League with a clean sweep. After successes against FC Porto and Calcit Kamnik, coach Lavarini’s lineup, in fact, è surrendered in three sets (25-19; 25-18; 25-17) to the strength of VakifBank Istanbul. The meneghine, deprived of Orro and Marinova, struggled to be incisive in attack and to find continuity at the wall.

At the start of the match, VakifBank è immediately took the lead, but Milano è was good at staying in the slipstream and re-establishing parity, followed forò by the change of pace of the hosts, who won the set with two consecutive walls. The second partial è began in equilibrium, but VakifBank accelerated in the middle of the partial, taking advantage of a series of decisive breaks to close 25-18 against a combative but not very incisive Milan in the key moments. In the third fraction, Vero Volley è started strong, but VakifBank again recovered quickly, stretching in the final and closing set (25-17) and match.

MVP of the match Marina Markova, while among the meneghine ranks the top scorer è was Paola Egonu (who won a Champions League with the Turks) with 14 points, followed by Myriam Sylla with 12. Just time to get on the plane and return to Italy for Numia Vero Volleyball that will be back on the court Sunday, December 1 at 5:00 p.m. to face, on the taraflex of Treviglio, the formation of Bergamo in the tenth day of the Regular Season of Serie A1 Tigotà.