25/07/2015 20:24
Turkey celebrate second home victory over Romania
2015 CEV Volleyball European League - Men
Canakkale, Turkey, July 25, 2015. On Saturday Turkey and Romania played each other for a second consecutive day in round 3 of the 2015 CEV Volleyball European League – Men in Canakkale, Turkey. After recording a 3:1 win on Friday, the hosts claimed also the re-match, this time cruising to a straight-set (25-11, 26-24, 25-22) victory.
Actually, the game started well balanced and Romania had an early 8:6 lead at the first technical time-out of the opening set. After the actions resumed, Turkey took the initiative with Baturalp Burak Güngör’s spikes and serves to stamp a 6-0 run. The hosts reached the second technical time-out comfortably leading by 16:9 and never looked back. Ibrahim Emet delivered a strong performance and Turkey easily cashed the first set 25-11.
Turkey scored four points in a row at the beginning of the second set but Romania found some solutions to make it 5-all. Turkey then got up 12:10 but Romania reached the second mandatory break with a margin of two points mainly thanks to Laurentiu Lica. The visitors looked almost unstoppable and cruised to a 24:20 lead before the home heroes made a great comeback to score six consecutive points and finish the set 26-24.
Turkey started the third set with Metin Toy’s spikes to lead 8:4 at the first technical time-out. The Turkish team dominated the entire set and made it 16:13 in their favour at the second technical time-out. Romania tried to stay competitive but they could not manage to make a comeback and Turkey won the set 25-22 and the match in three sets.
Turkey’s Metin Toy was the best scorer of the match with 17 points. Laurentiu Lica scored 12 for Romania.
Emanuele Zanini, coach of Turkey: “Our level was much, much better today. We are more satisfied, not just with the three points. We played better than we did yesterday and this was our goal before the match. It is good to win for your self-confidence and even more when you come back like we did in the second set. These matches will give us confidence. So we know where to work and it’s all about details. Now we must think about Croatia. Every match is different. We have to show the same level against them as well.”
Caner Peksen, captain of Turkey: “Today we did what we wanted to do and were more successful than yesterday. We analysed our opponent very well. We had a good start and finished well too. Congratulations to my teammates. Next we will play against Croatia in Ankara. We want to win both games in the fourth leg as well.”
Danut Pascu, coach of Romania: “We played very bad today as we had done yesterday as well. The Turkish team, on the other hand, just got better and better. I want to congratulate them because they have a very good future. They are young and they are real fighters. They always want to win. I think this is what we need too. More wish to win.”
Adrian Radu Gontariu, captain of Romania: “We started the game badly. We should have taken the second set. We were leading there. I think we lost the game after second set. I hope our next matches will be better.”
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