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“I’m proud of how the boys played”: Haching coach Mircea Dudas.
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Ultimately it went the same way as in the first half of the season: Once again the Bundesliga volleyball players from TSV Haching Munich lost in the tiebreak against Karlsruhe.
Unterhaching
– The first duel against the Baden Volleys SSC Karlsruhe was the most exciting match of the preliminary round for TSV Haching Munich.
In November, the Green Heroes narrowly lost at home in five sets.
Now, in the second leg, there was another thriller and again they had to bow 2:3 (19:25, 26:24, 25:18, 25:27, 13:15).
“I had the feeling there could have been more,” said TSV libero Moritz Eckardt, not wrongly.
Although it initially looked like a defeat, Karlsruhe dominated the first set with 25:19 and led in the second with 13:10.
But then the Hachingers turned the result around to 15:20.
“In the first set we played our best volleyball, then we brought the opponent into the game a bit, but they also played great,” Karlsruhe’s diagonal attacker Philipp Schumann, Haching’s captain last season, explained this turn of events with a mixture of his own weaknesses and a huge improvement from the Green Heroes, with Juro Petrusic (24 points in total) and Austin Matautia (23) gaining momentum in attack.
Karlsruhe fought back again and the period went into extra time.
Lars Kristian Ekeland finally converted the second set point to make it 24:26 for the Hachingers, who carried the momentum into the third period, which clearly went to them at 18:25.
Exciting decision
However, things got tight again in the fourth set.
Karlsruhe led 16:13, Haching took the lead for the first time at 19:20 thanks to a Matautia block.
It went into extra time again, but TSV didn't get a match point, while the hosts used their third set point to make it 27:25.
The tie break then provided the worthy climax of the exciting game.
The Hachingers started badly with three service errors, giving the hosts a 7:4 lead, but fought back: Mark Gumenjuk's strong block brought the score to 7:7, another great block, this time from Ekeland, made it 9:10 TSV even took the lead.
At 13:12 they switched back to the Baden Volleys, who also scored the next point, so they had two match points and were already celebrating after the first.
But Haching coach Mircea Dudas insisted on the video evidence and was successful: the Petrusic attack was not out of bounds, but just in the field.
But hope only lived until the following rally: Schumann converted Karlsruhe's second chance to make it 15:13 after 129 minutes.
“It’s a shame to lose like that.
In the end it went almost the same way as in the first half of the season, which is of course a bit bitter,” said Eckardt.
However, because the game provided further evidence of Haching's overall positive development, the libero was still in a good mood: “It was really fun to play here.
I hate to lose, but it was a great game.”
His coach agreed: “I’m proud of how the boys played.
With a little more luck we could have won,” said Dudas.
However: things are getting tighter for the playoffs.
TSV Haching Munich is now eleventh in the table with eight points, five points behind eighth-placed ASV Dachau.
TSV Haching Munich: Krenkel, López García, Mikuláss Koch, Matautia, Gumenjuk, Petrusic, Eckardt (L);
Ekeland, Paduretu, Gehringer