Maritza (Plovdiv) head coach Ahmetcan Ershimshek expressed his satisfaction with his team's performance in the match against the current winner of the Women's Volleyball Champions League trophy – Antonio Carraro Imoko (Conegliano). The coach admitted that the “yellow-blue” team could take a lot of positive things from the meeting despite losing the match 0:3.
In the first set, the Bulgarian champion led 22:18, but lost the initiative and was defeated 25:23. Ershimshek also emphasized this point.
“I'm not just happy we lost focus in the first game after leading 22-18. We lost the game and then stopped playing. However, we faced the strongest team in the world and I am happy with our performance. fight them. They have a lot of stars and I have a lot of experience. We can learn a lot from this match,” commented the specialist.
“We have to take the positives from this match. As I said after our first match in the group – we have to maintain our level of play in the second and third matches. This is our small problem because we are a very young team. We started with strong and we have to be happy with the way we played,” he added.
“In our next match, first of all, we have to maintain our level throughout the match. “We have to be better at serving and reduce unwarranted mistakes,” concluded Ahmetcan Ershimshek.
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