A very successful week for Montenegrin volleyball players abroad - our middle blockers were particularly effective, but even the most experienced players had notable games, writes odbojka.me.
Saška Đurović led her Porto team to victory in the Portuguese Championship play-offs. It was a 3-0 win over Vitoria Setubal, which the Podgorica player finished with the title of MVP of the match, with 14 points, nine of which were from blocks.
In the first match of the quarterfinals of the Portuguese league, Milena Ćetković and her Kairos team put up a great fight against the big favorite, Braga, away from home, but lost 3:2.
Mili Avijasija and Danijela Džaković won third place at the end of the league part of the Azerbaijan championship, so in the quarterfinals they will have Absheron as their rival, whom they defeated both times in the first part of the competition. In the last round of the league competition, Mili Avijasija was defeated 3:1 by DH Volley, in a match that had no result significance, and the great player from Pljevlja was the most efficient in her team with 22 points.
Roma also finished the league stage, along with Nikoleta Perović, with a defeat to the best team in the Italian Serie A2. The "Wolves" lost to Talmasons at home, and the guest from Udine secured a place in the strongest division. Roma eventually won fifth place and will play with Costa Volpino for a place in the semi-finals of the promotion playoffs. In the duel with Talmasons, Nikoleta won 13 points and finished the league stage of the competition as the best scorer - she won a total of 556 points.
Katarina Budrak and Bordeaux are facing a battle for a place in the playoffs. They will have Evra as their rival in the play-in series, and Bordeaux's progress to the play-off zone was not helped by the 3:2 victory over Terville Florentz, with an excellent game by our national team player - Katarina won 14 points, and at the same time she maintained her status as one of the best servers in the French league, as she finished the first part of the competition with 35 aces.
Tent secured first place in the Serbian Super League standings after defeating Jedinstvo in Užice 3:0 in the 21st round and celebrating their 21st victory. Our Anastasija Bogojević's team will have the loser from the last round of the league championship, Radnički - Partizan, in the playoffs, and the winner of that match will play Jedinstvo from Stara Pazova, led by Jovo Caković. Jedinstvo defeated Belgrade's Radnički 3:0 in the 21st round.
Marija Šušić and her Srem defeated Spartak Subotica 3:0 and will conclude the season after visiting Železničar in the next round. The Montenegrin coach had three points in the last match.
In the Serbian First League, Omladinac, featuring Kristina Vukčević and Staša Mitrović, came within two wins of leading team Napredak, defeating them in the derby of round 23 3:1. The Black and Whites and Vanja Matunović are in a crisis of results - they are in fifth place after losing to Novi Sad 3:0.
The league part of the Croatian championship was completed with the matches of the 18th round, after which Osijek, together with Mate Kovačec, secured survival in the Super League, for which Dubrovnik and Mina Dragović will have to fight in a play-off with a representative of the First League.
Osijek was defeated by Dinamo Zagreb 3:1, with nine points from the young Kotor team, while Dubrovnik lost to Brdo, who reached the playoffs, 3:2. Mina Dragović scored 10 points in that match.
The season is over for Kristina Božović and her Vampula, as they were defeated in the third match of the quarterfinals of the Finnish championship by Kangasala.
Teodora Rakočević and her team Gazele Volej have qualified for the playoffs of the North Macedonian Championship, defeating Uskana 3:0 in the final match of the league stage, and this week they will face the Cup semi-final against Vardar in Skopje.
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