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Coach Thomas Ranner doesn't have a favorite opponent for the play-offs, but he would like to avoid VfB Friedrichshafen.
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The Herrschinger Bundesliga volleyball players will play in Freiburg for the last main round game of the season on Saturday.
Then it will be decided who will be Ammerseer's play-off opponent.
Herrsching
– Last match day in the Volleyball Bundesliga – and lots of unanswered questions.
Who will take the main round crown?
Can WWK Volleys Herrsching shake off their cup defeat?
Can the Ammersee team still make the jump to fifth place?
All these questions will be clarified on Saturday, 7 p.m.
With the exception of the game Giesen against Lüneburg, all games take place at the same time.
The Herrschingers are challenged by promoted team FT 1844 Freiburg.
For the monkey gang, as the young Freiburg team calls themselves, it is the last game of the season.
Coach Jakob Schönhagen's team will finish the promotion season in tenth place in the table.
The Herrschingers, currently sixth, are still in fifth place.
For this to happen, however, in the long-distance duel with the Powervolleys Düren, a victory of their own and support from cup winners Berlin Recycling Volleys are necessary.
The Powervolleys, for their part, need at least two points against Berlin to secure fifth place.
However, the Berliners may also need a point to avoid being overtaken by the Helios Grizzlys Giesen in the last few meters.
Since the Lower Saxony derby took place on Friday evening (the result had not yet been determined at the time of going to press), the Berliners already know before the game how many points they still have to score.
Either way, the fans of the top teams have gotten out the slide rule in the last few days.
Pretty much any constellation is still possible.
Thomas Ranner doesn't have a favorite opponent in the upcoming play-off quarter-finals.
When listing the three possible opponents, it was clear from the Herrschinger head coach that he would be happy to forego the duel with his former club VfB Friedrichshafen (for the time being).
But the other two teams in question from Lüneburg and Giesen are also a big hurdle.
“We’re looking forward to the play-offs,” says Ranner.
“But before that we have to do our homework in Freiburg.”
Ranner expects a difficult game in the atmospheric Freiburg Hall.
FT coach Jakob Schönhagen was “overall satisfied” with the premiere season.
We would have liked to make it into the play-offs, but we had too many losses in the games that were important to us.
We learned the lesson.” Structurally, the step into the volleyball upper house was a big challenge for the people from Breisgau.
Schönhagen sees the club on the right track.
“We are taking small steps and expanding professionalization in all areas.
It will take time, but it should be sustainable.” They want to attack the play-off places in the coming season.
For WWK Volleys Herrsching it is about achieving the turnaround after losing the cup final.
“We have to keep the level high.
That should be easily doable,” believes diagonal attacker Filip John.
Ranner also found a concentrated team after the training-free Monday.
Of course the cup final leaves its mark, said Ranner.
The 36-year-old was optimistic that they would live up to their role as favorites in Freiburg.
In the first leg, the Herrschingers had slight difficulties at the start - as they have often done this season against teams from the bottom half of the table.
After one set of start-up times, the GCDW engine was running and the Breisgauers were ultimately comfortably beaten 3-1.