Actually, even the die-hard Fans of the BR Volleys are considered to be very understanding when it comes to forgive their team a bad game. However, after the mixed performances of the season so far, held on Wednesday evening during the first set of the top Bundesliga game against VfB some followers Friedrichshafen in the fan block a Banner with the inscription: “Fight now!” – Fight now!
your request has hardly been answered. The Berlin-based team gave up in the duel with great rivals, but they lost clearly with 0:3 (23:25, 17:25, 21:25) before 7276 spectators in the Max-Schmeling-Halle. So it missed the Volleys significantly, again fully involved in the fight for the German championship.
“This is a difficult Situation for us,” said coach Cedric Enard. However, the Frenchman for the further course of the season is voted quite positive. And this is due to the fact that the Berlin-based set on Wednesday, another sign that they want to defend their title with a vengeance. A few hours before the start of the game, the Volleys had announced that they have short-term obligation a further access: the Russians Sergey Grankin, who was also entitled to the same, against Friedrichshafen game. The Olympic champion from 2012, last played for Dynamo Moscow, is given a contract until the end of the season. “Sergei will help us with his experience and his qualities,” says Enard.
Grankin is not in the starting lineup
With Grankin the Volleys now have three players. That captain Sebastian Kühner and Jan Zimmermann, so far, the sources, the Duo are excited about the Transfer at all, is of little surprise. “I don’t want to tell. This is a Management decision,“ stressed carpenter. And Bold said: “The performance sports. I must now fight my use of time.“ Enard and Manager Kaweh Niroomand were the previous achievements of the two is hardly satisfied. “We just had to change something,” said Enard. Niroomand said: “We have needs in many Places of action. Grankin is a personality that can lead the Team even in difficult moments.“
From the start, the 34-Year-old, the Berlin, the first foreign station was not playing, but still. In the starting lineup Bold. And the audience, a well-known course of the game. After the errors in the adoption of the Berlin early on, were 2:5. When the score was 17:20 Grankin was a substitute for the first Time. His first passes were to and Berlin were back on (21:22). Enard then brought back Bolder, and it was possible to compensate for 22:22. However, errors were the Berliners again, and then lost the first set 23:25.
The next passage of the Berliner ran completely. You schwächelten in the serve and in the assumption that the through-balls were inaccurate and so they were 2:7 in the rear. Shortly thereafter, Grankin came again for Bolder. But it was obvious that the Russians, is since Tuesday in Berlin, the coordination with his team-mates missing. The residue (7:14), and the Fans grew shouted: “We want to see you fight!” But this movement also lost significantly with 17:25.
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In the third round, the Grankin commit to riding completely best, showed Berlin’s more unsettled. After a decent Start (5:4) they had to give in this set with 21:25 beaten. Grankin gave himself up after the defeat but is optimistic: “A little bit of Training, then it will be better.”
