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The third division volleyball players of TSV Georgii Allianz are defeated by USC Freiburg 3-0 and will have to fight relegation in the further course of the season.
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Vaihingen – Before the first league game of the new year on Saturday evening in the local Hegel sports hall, the third division volleyball players of TSV Georgii Allianz were still in good spirits. After all, four game days before the end of the main round they still had every chance of reaching one of the top four places in Group B and thus the promotion round to the second Bundesliga on their own. However: Within just 68 minutes of play, this starting position has changed drastically, because after the 0: 3 home defeat (15:25, 16:25, 23:25) against competitor USC Freiburg, the Filder team no longer has its sporting fate in its own right your own hands.
More realistic than a possible entry into the promotion play-offs is that the Vaihinger have to fight against the rivals from the other group (Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland) against relegation to the regional league from February onwards. In order to still be among the top four of their own preliminary group after the first 14 match days, the Allianz men would have to win their remaining games in Ludwigsburg, at home against Botnang and in the so far bottom light in Konstanz with at least two sets of difference – during the For their part, Freiburgers would have to lose their two outstanding home games against the front runners TV Rottenburg and SV Fellbach just as clearly.
Vaihingen went wrong unexpectedly
The Vaihinger maneuvered themselves into the difficult situation by unexpectedly messing up at home after their previous five away losses. Allianz had won four of their five home games and only lost the field against the sovereign leaders from Rottenburg.
The reasons? “It may well be that the three-week break over Christmas and New Year’s brought us a bit out of the rhythm. But: We just played a really bad game and deservedly lost at this level, ”said captain Christian Bura. Another factor that played into the cards of the guests from Breisgau was the lack of the best Allianz attacker, Alexander Benz, who had decided several games almost single-handedly for his team this season, but was prevented this time privately. Head coach Dominik Nuguspanov, who, as reported, is in quarantine at home after being infected with the corona virus, was also not in the sports hall of the Hegel Gymnasium on Saturday evening.
In the end, they again got the short straw
The head coach was once again represented by assistant coach Dominik Höschle. The hosts, for whom the veteran Sergej Henkel (42) from his own regional league team once again helped out in the “first”, had no chance for two sets against the South Baden team around ex-alliance Marc Zimmermann. Only in the third round did they manage to balance it out – before they lost again in the end. “We have now ticked off the promotion round. Now it is important to win the games against Botnang and Konstanz in order to be able to take these points into the relegation round, ”said Bura. TSV Georgii Allianz: Henkel, Garklavs, Klausmann, Metzenthin, Hummel, Bura, Chudoba (Libero); Substituted: Bok, readers, Drechsel, Hinsken.
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