Head-to-head
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA and TOURS VB will meet for the fourth time in the CEV Champions League. The Italian team won all three previous encounters, including 3-1 in this season's reverse fixture.
- On 16 November, Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA beat TOURS VB 3-1 at Salle Robert Grenon in Tours after losing the opening set. Tours' Aboubacar Drame Neto (24) scored the most points in that match.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA had previously defeated TOURS VB in the 2020/21 Champions League group stage: 3-0 in Perugia and 3-1 in Tours.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA are unbeaten against French opponents in the Champions League. Besides their three victories over TOURS VB, they beat PARIS Volley in the 2014/15 group phase.
- TOURS VB have a W8-L21 record against Italian teams in the Champions League, including losing each of their last nine encounters with Italian sides in the competition.
- The last victory by TOURS VB against an Italian team in the Champions League was a 3-2 group stage win over TRENTINO Diatec in Tours on 16 December 2015.
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA won each of their first three matches in the 2022/23 Champions League group stage. They can win their opening four group stage matches in a Champions League campaign for the fifth successive time.
- The last time Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA suffered a defeat in their opening four group stage games of a Champions League campaign was in 2017/18, when they lost their opener to Sir Colussi Sicoma PERUGIA (2-3).
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA have won 25 of their last 27 group stage matches in the CEV Champions League, with the exceptions being a 0-3 defeat against Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in 2020/21 and a 2-3 loss versus Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in the last matchround last season, when the Italians had already qualified for the quarter-finals. Note: Two of Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's 25 victories in this run include 3-0 awarded wins versus Arkas IZMIR in the 2020/21 group stage.
- Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's last four Champions League defeats were against Polish opposition. Their last Champions League loss versus a non-Polish opponent was the aforementioned group stage loss against Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA in 2020/21.
- Marlon Yant Herrera is Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA's leading scorer in the 2022/23 Champions League group stage on 55 points. He scored 19 against Sport LISBOA e Benfica, 19 versus TOURS VB and 17 against Knack ROESELARE.
TOURS VB
- TOURS VB won two of their opening three Champions League group stage matches this season: 3-0 away at Knack ROESELARE and 3-1 away at Sport LISBOA e Benfica. They lost 1-3 at home against Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA in the second matchround.
- The last time TOURS VB progressed from the Champions League group stage was in 2015/16, when they were eliminated in the Playoffs 12 by Belogorie BELGOROD.
- Each of TOURS VB's last seven Champions League defeats were all against Italian opponents (2019-2022).
- None of TOURS VB's last 16 Champions League matches have gone to five sets, since a 3-2 victory over Arkas IZMIR in the 2018/19 group stage on 12 February 2019. Note: Their current run includes two 3-0 awarded wins against Arkas IZMIR in the 2020/21 group stage.
- Aboubacar Drame Neto (63) is among the best scorers in the group stage of the 2022/23 Champions League. His set average of 5,73 points is third-best in this season's group stage at the start of this matchround.
- Coming into this matchround, only Sir Sicoma Monini PERUGIA's Oleh Plotnytskyi (9) has recorded more aces in this season's Champions League group stage than Luciano Palonsky (8).
Gianlorenzo Blengini“This time I expect a more difficult game than it was in the away leg, because I perfectly know the real value of Tours VB and, in my opinion, we played a good match in France, while they didn't show their usual level of performance, especially if we consider the results they get in the immediately preceding games. We will have to be good at focusing on our side of the court, developing our volleyball performance and taking advantage of such challenging matches to continue our growth path.”
Head Coach Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
Marcelo Fronckowiak"It is an important match for the further qualification in the group. The Lube are favourites but we want to do our best to get a positive result. We are looking for a qualification for the Play Offs, if the opportunity arises we will go for it."
Head Coach TOURS VB
Zeljko Coric"For us it's a match where, if we are at the level we know how to show, we can play a big role in the passage to the next round of the competition. We were the protagonists of their power in the first game so we have to control them and impose our style of play, but with a team like Lube, it will not be easy at all. A great challenge for us."
Captain TOURS VB
Cucine Lube CIVITANOVA
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