[EM ATUALIZAÇÃO: 21-18, no 4.º set]
This Wednesday, November 17, Sport Lisboa e Benfica will face Sporting, in a game referring to the 6th round of the 1st phase of the National Volleyball Championship.
Postponed due to the weather conditions and by agreement between the teams, the always exciting derby derby carried over to this Wednesday night. The team, full of quality, is making a flawless walk, both internally and at European level, and the fans, who were also irreproachable, responded, and there is a full house in Luz!
Spectacular atmosphere in the stands, fans in the red, in the box, President Rui Costa and also Taarabt and Helton Leite, Professional Football players, present in support of red volleyball.
The first team to score was Benfica, but who entered the game better was Sporting, to get a partial of 1-4. The eagles reacted and shortened distances, running from an early age after the initial loss (6-8). With 8-12, Marcel Matz stopped the game to reorganize the troops, but on the other side Gersinho’s training kept the focus and also the advantage. Benfica fought until the end, but the lions were better, got off to a good start and won the 1st set with merit: 21-25, 0-1 in the game.
Bernardo Westermann, with a wings to open on 2.º set, set the tone! Eagles mighty entrance on court, with prompt response on the other side of the network. big volleyball game, with successive ties and alternations, and with the delivery and availability of athletes to be a constant. Show on and off court! In the middle of the partial, the very strong service of the incarnates began to cause problems, and the numbers began to be symptomatic (16-10)… Superior, intelligent and rocked by the chants from the stands, Benfica won the set (25-18) and tied the game: 1-1.
As in the previous set, Benfica came in very strong, this time with the block accompanying the service. Sharp, assertive and very ambitious… huge Benfica! In front from the beginning, and even in the face of the extremely dangerous approaches of the greens and whites, the eagles did not allow pretensions, stressed their superior quality in the final stretch and won the partial by 25-20, materializing the turnaround in the challenge: 2-1.
| Benfica-Sporting – Pavilion No. 2 of the Light |
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| Benfica’s initial training | ||||
| Rapha, Peter Wohlfi, Bernardo Westermann, Lucas França, Pablo Natan, Aaro Nikula and Ivo Casas (L) | ||||
| Alternates | ||||
| André Lopes, Hugo Gaspar, João Infante, Zelão, Tiago Violas, Japa and Bernardo Silva (L) | ||||
| 1.ºset | 2.ºset | 3.ºset | 4.ºset | 5.ºset |
| 21-25 | 25-18 | 25-20 | – | – |
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