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Aleksandar VINALIEV
Igor PORVAZNIK
JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel - Ziraat Bank ANKARA
- These teams will meet for the first time in the CEV Champions League.
- JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel will meet a Turkish side in the CEV Champions League semi-finals for the second season in a row, after their encounter with Halkbank ANKARA last season. The Polish side recorded a 3-1 victory in Türkiye and a 2-3 defeat at home to advance to the final.
- JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have a W4-L3 record against Turkish teams in the CEV Champions League (all meetings with Halkbank ANKARA).
- Ziraat Bank ANKARA have won five of their six CEV Champions League encounters with Polish teams, including their two meetings with Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the group stage this season.
- The match in Jastrzębie-Zdrój will be watched by over three thousand spectators. Online tickets for this match sold out in two minutes.
- Both teams are struggling with health problems of their main players before this match.
JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel
- JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have reached the semi-finals of a CEV Champions League campaign for the fifth time, after 2010/11 (lost the bronze medal match), 2013/14 (won the bronze medal match), 2021/22 (lost the semi-final) and 2022/23 (lost the final).
- JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel reached the Champions League final last season, losing 2-3 to Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in Torino.
- JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have lost each of their last four five-set matches in the CEV Champions League, including last season's final.
- Tomasz Fornal is JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel's leading scorer this season on 109 points. Fornal recorded 150 points last season, only behind Stephen Boyer (161) among JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel players.
- Moustapha M’Baye (Middle-blocker of Jastrzębski Węgiel): "We won't do magic. We all obviously think about the final. We have unfinished business with the CEV Champions League from last year. We have to set this goal and this dream internally and strive for it, because it will be something great. We will do everything to emerge victorious from this semi-final."
Ziraat Bank ANKARA
- Ziraat Bank ANKARA have reached the CEV Champions League semi-finals for the first time. They follow in the footsteps of fellow Turkish teams Halkbank ANKARA (2013/14 and 2022/23) and Arkas IZMIR (2011/12).
- Ziraat Bank ANKARA can become the second Turkish side to reach the CEV Champions League final, after Halkbank ANKARA in 2013/14 (lost to Belogorie BELGOROD).
- Ziraat Bank ANKARA advanced from the quarter-finals after a golden set against Guaguas LAS PALMAS. They had won all of their seven Champions League matches this season until the second leg of the quarter-finals (0-3).
- The only team from Türkiye to win more than seven matches in a Champions League campaign were Arkas IZMIR in 2011/12 (8).
- Wouter ter Maat (131) leads Ziraat Bank Ankara's scoring in the 2023/24 CEV Champions League.
- The wing-spiker of Ziraat Bank Ankara Oreol Camejo Durruthy has already had the opportunity to play in the hall in Jastrzębie-Zdrój. It took place on December 3, 2014. The Cuban then represented Lokomotiv Novosibirsk. His team won in Jastrzębie-Zdrój 3:2, and he became the most effective player of his team (23 points).
- The Argentinian player of Ziraat Bank Ankara, Luciano Vicentin, is a player of his country's national team, a player of Marcelo Mendez, the coach of Jastrzębski Węgiel and Argentina’s national team. He also played in the hall in Jastrzębie. It was March 15, 2023, when he played for VfB Friedrichshafen.
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- Birth Place: New Westminster/BC
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- Birth Place: Poltava
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- Birth Place: Jastrzebie Zdroj
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JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel - Ziraat Bank ANKARA
- Due to health problems, both teams lacked basic receivers - Rafał Szymura in Jastrzębski Węgiel and Matthew Anderson in Ziraat Bank Ankara.
- MVP of the match: Jean Patry who scored 20 points.
JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel
- In the last league matches, the captain of Jastrzębski Węgiel, Benjamin Toniutti, was also sidelined or played less due to a calf injury. On Wednesday, the Frenchman played in the team's starting six.
- For Tomasz Fornal, the player of Jastrzębski Węgiel, Wednesday's match was the 200th official match in the colors of Jastrzębski Węgiel.
- Wednesday's match was watched by three thousand spectators, who supported the Polish champions to a 3-0 victory with their loud cheering.
- Jastrzębski Węgiel plays in the semi-finals of the CEV Champions League with the team from Ankara for the second year in a row. Last year it was Halkbank and this year it was Ziraat.
The match in numbers
The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.
The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.
Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.
The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.
An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.
The number of successful point winning blocks of JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel compared to Ziraat Bank ANKARA.
JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel number of service aces compared to Ziraat Bank ANKARA
Errors leading to points of JASTRZEBSKI Węgiel, next to those from Ziraat Bank ANKARA