Fenerbahce Istanbul, losing with Dinamo Moscow, wasted another opportunity to keep dreaming of the play-off round. PGE Skra Belchatow crashed Tomis Constanta in Romania and took a leadership in pool E.

 

Fenerbahce Istanbul – Dinamo Moscow 1 – 3 (18-25, 23-25, 25-23, 21-25)

Fenerbahce: Eksi 3, Cernic 7, Bjelica 6, Miljkovic 16, Marshall 13, Tocoglu 7, Kilic (L) and Toy, Kayhan  

Dinamo: Grankin 4, Poltavskiy 8, Shcherbinin 14, Kruglov 17, Markin 12, Krivets 11, Bargin (L) and Bezurkov 1, Afinogenov, Shchadilov

 

Dinamo Moscow conquered Istanbul playing without two main foreign receivers- Bartosz Kurek and Peter Veres, overcoming Fenerbahce in four sets.

The home side immediately got troubles in reception against the strong Russian serves (4:9), while Pavel Kruglov dominated the game via his high attacks (11:16). Even though Ivan Miljkovic tried hard to recover his team back (14:17), Dinamo claimed the first set quite comfortably (18-25).
After having an early time-out at 2:6, the local heroes bounced back and set the pace by the first technical time-out (8:7); Fenerbahce was still up 16:13 by the second mandatory stop, Dinamo could draw level at 16 all and a furious battle unfolded before Fenerbahce made two consecutive errors to contribute the final 23-25 for Dinamo Moscow.
The hosts opened quite strong in set 3 (6:2) and Leonel Marshall added two blocks to the count (8:3); Fenerbahce did not lose composure this time (17:12) before Dinamo could claw back to -1 (24:23); this time the final rush belonged to Fenerbahce and a serving error by Alexander Markin sealed the 25-23 for the local heroes.   
Fenerbahce caught a good start also in set 4 (4:1) but Dinamo Moscow went up 12:16 by the second mandatory break; helped by their supporters, Fenerbahce fought back from 14:19 to 19 all and a few more ties followed, before Dinamo scored four in a row for the final 21-25 that sealed that 1:3 away win with Pavel Kruglov top scoring with 17 points.  

 

Tomis Constanta – PGE Skra Belchatow 0 – 3 (20-25, 19-25, 20-25)

Tomis: Gonzalez 1, Terzic 3, Laza 6, Ojansivu 12, Bojic 9, Spinu 3, Ivanov (L) and Borota 1, Stancu, Bojovic 1

PGE Skra: Woicki, Cala 9, Plinski 7, Atanasijevic 15, Winiarski 12, Kooistra 9, Zatorski (L) and Bakiewicz, Klos, Zugaj, Cupkovic 2

 

PGE Skra Belchatow beat Tomis Constanta in straight sets to claim a second victory in Pool E of the 2013 Men’s CEV Volleyball Champions League. The Poles regained a lead in the preliminary round.

Last year’s silver medalists have a perfect record of two wins and no sets lost so far in the competition. PGE Skra dictated the pace of the game in the first set all the way through (8:5, 16:9, and 21:15) before pocketing it with the score of 25-20. Things did not change much in the second section of the game with the Poles going up 8:4 and 16:11 before cruising to the final 25-19. The story of the game changed a little bit in set 3 where Tomis moved up 8:5 and 12:10 before PGE Skra flipped the charts around (12:16) and regained control of the operations to finish it off in straight sets.

Aleksandar Atanasijevic scored 15 points for the winners reaching a 72 % efficiency in attack, Michal Winiarski added 12, and Wytze Kooistra provided 9 with 100% effectiveness in spiking (8/8). Among the hosts, Olli-Pekka Ojansivu gave 12 points while Marko Bojic added 9.