The first Final Four Round of the Azeri Super league ended in Mingachevir city with the couple of great matches. The first match between Lokomotiv and Igtisadchi was also the revenge match for the last ones, as Igtisadchi lost the Challenge Cup semi-final to Lokomotiv and was looking forward to take the revenge and also claim its first victory in the internal arena final round.
Lokomotiv started very well by excellent attacks of Kseniya Kovalenko- Poznyak and won the first set. But Igtisadchi of Jan de Brandt was not agree to lose the third match in a row and won the following three sets in a very hard battle. Japanese libero Yuko Sano,Finnish Riikka Lehtonen and American Tayyiba Haneef were great and played great role in this victory.
Lokomotiv started very well by excellent attacks of Kseniya Kovalenko- Poznyak and won the first set. But Igtisadchi of Jan de Brandt was not agree to lose the third match in a row and won the following three sets in a very hard battle. Japanese libero Yuko Sano,Finnish Riikka Lehtonen and American Tayyiba Haneef were great and played great role in this victory.
In the second match of the day and the last match of the round two leaders- undefeated Azerrail faced its the biggest opponent Rabita Baku.
Olga Ativi showed super performance helping Sanja Starovic to get the first two sets. But Azerail of great young player Polina Rahimova did not want to give up and equalled the score from 0-2 to 2-2.
The last set began very nervous, Azerrail had three points advantage by Polina Rahimova`s klling serves and attacks. But Kimberly Glass who substituted Mammadova showed impressive game in blocking and helped Rabita to go ahead Her teammate Natasa Krsmanovic was also very effective in blocking and Rabita Baku won this five-set thriller.
20 aprel
“İqtisadçı” – “Lokomotiv”- 3:1 (20:25, 25:15, 27:25, 25:23)
MVP: Yuko Sano
The results of the Regular season matches
“Lokomotiv” – “İqtisadçı” – 0:3 (23:25, 18:25, 23:25)
“İqtisadçı” - “Lokomotiv” – 3:0 (25:23, 25:17, 25:18)
“Azərreyl” – “Rabitə” - 2:3 (17:25, 16:25, 25:22, 25:20; 14:16)
MVP: Sanja Starovic
The results of the Regular season matches
“Azərreyl” – “Rabitə” – 1:3 (25:22, 19:25, 22:25, 22:25)
“Rabitə” - “Azərreyl” – 3:0 (25:23, 25:20, 25:14)
“İqtisadçı” – “Lokomotiv”- 3:1 (20:25, 25:15, 27:25, 25:23)
MVP: Yuko Sano
The results of the Regular season matches
“Lokomotiv” – “İqtisadçı” – 0:3 (23:25, 18:25, 23:25)
“İqtisadçı” - “Lokomotiv” – 3:0 (25:23, 25:17, 25:18)
“Azərreyl” – “Rabitə” - 2:3 (17:25, 16:25, 25:22, 25:20; 14:16)
MVP: Sanja Starovic
The results of the Regular season matches
“Azərreyl” – “Rabitə” – 1:3 (25:22, 19:25, 22:25, 22:25)
“Rabitə” - “Azərreyl” – 3:0 (25:23, 25:20, 25:14)
The fifth set Rabita - Azerrail
First Round Final Ranking
Azərreyl | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8-5 | 5 |
Rabitə | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8-6 | 5 |
Lokomotiv | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5-8 | 4 |
İqtisadçı | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5-7 | 4 |
