The volleyball players of Dresdner SC have made a successful start to the Champions League. In the first group match, the German cup winners and runners-up in the championship surprisingly won 3:1 (26:24, 25:22, 17:25, 25:23) at Polish top club LKS Commercecon Lodz. Alexander Waibl's charges will play their second match in Pool D at home against the multiple Italian champions Conegliano next Tuesday.
The visitors from Saxony were tactically well prepared right from the start. They served powerfully, setter Emma Grome staged her attackers in a variety of ways and, above all, the block was always effective. In the tight first set, the DSC women kept their nerve in crunch time.
In the third set, the club from the city on the Elbe was not quite able to maintain its level and the Polish side in particular won the serve-and-receive duel. The Waibl team also made a few too many mistakes.
After quickly falling behind in the fourth, the visitors fought their way back and in the tight final phase, Latvian diagonal attacker Marta Levinska, who was also the top scorer with 23 points, once again scored the decisive points and converted the second match point after 109 minutes.
