Even if formally it is only about three points.
The duel between the WWK Volleys Herrsching and the United Volleys Frankfurt on Saturday at 7 p.m. (live on sporttotal.tv) is a classic six-point game.
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The Ammerseers are currently three points in the table of the volleyball Bundesliga ahead of the Hessians, with a win the team of coach Max Hauser could take a decisive step towards the playoff quarter-finals and also keep the Frankfurters at bay.
Hauser expects “a close match that we absolutely want to win.
We want to stay ahead. "
While at the top of the table, VfB Friedrichshafen (30 points), Berlin Recycling Volleys (29) and Powervolleys Düren (28) scramble for the best starting position for the playoffs that start in early March, behind them there is a six-way battle for the remaining five places for developed the quarterfinals.
And Herrschinger have a very good chance of reaching the quarter-finals for the sixth year in a row - although this year the goal was semi-finals.
After the unfortunate 1: 3 defeat in Friedrichshafen, the focus of the WWK Volleys is now on the pre-decisive games against three direct opponents.
After the game against Frankfurt, Captain Johannes Tille and Co. have to deal with SVG Lüneburg and Netzhoppers Königs Wusterhausen in January.
The match against Frankfurt would have been the third game in the Audi Dome.
Due to the corona, the games will continue to take place without spectators.
It is questionable whether fans will ever be allowed into the halls again this season.
In the first leg, the WWK Volleys messed up a 2: 1 set lead and lost in the end with 2: 3.
After a bumpy start to the season, the guests have recently grown enormously.
Coach Juan Manuel Serramalera's team took seven out of nine points from the last three games and climbed to seventh place.
After the last two games without a win (but against the top teams Berlin and Friedrichshafen), Herrsching is still fifth with 18 points, one place and one point behind the targeted fourth place currently held by Bisons Bühl.
In terms of personnel, Coach Hauser can draw on unlimited resources.
On the outside, David Wieczorek and Tim Peter, who were getting stronger and stronger, were preferred in Friedrichshafen, later Jori Mantha came into play.
Hauser likes to talk about being spoiled for choice.
The 37-year-old trainer also has them on diagonal.
Jonas Kaminski is in no way inferior to the regular number one Jalen Penrose, according to Hauser.
"Everyone is in top shape," says Hauser, hoping that his players will get their training performance on the floor too.
There is a reunion with old friends on Saturday.
Diagonal attacker Daniel Malescha wore the GCDW dress for the first two Bundesliga seasons (2014 to 2016) and thus became Herrsching's first national player before he was signed by VfB Friedrichshafen.
Last summer he moved from Lake Constance to the banking metropolis.
A few days ago the United Volleys signed Leon Dervisaj at short notice.
However, the setter couldn't get past his rival Johannes Tille at the WWK volleys in the 2018/19 season.
After the stations TV Rottenburg (2019/2020) and SVG Lüneburg (July 2020 to December 2020) he is now playing in Frankfurt.
