Dinamo MOSCOW demonstrated their power in this very important match and made a serious bid to reach the next round of the #CLVolleyW. The club neutralized all the trumps of Uralochka-NTMK and won in three sets.

Dinamo played the first set very confidently in Ekaterinburg. The team of Serbian coach Zeljko Bulatovic led for the whole part and created a solid handicap. The success of the guests was brought by excellent actions of outside-spiker Yana Shcherban (59% efficiency in attack) and their opposite Nataliya Goncharova.

In the second set, Uralochka managed to make a breakthrough and score four points in a row, then 6-8 turned into 10-8, but this surge was short-lived. Dinamo reduced the number of their mistakes to a minimum and confidently proved their superiority. The Moscow's club made three aces, two of which have made setter Marina Babeshina. The home team could only boast of the confident performance of Ekaterina Enina. She blocked three attacks.

The beginning of the last part could have discouraged Dinamo. The club from Ekaterinburg led 5-0 and seemed to have caught the courage. However, Dinamo MOSCOW quickly returned to the status quo. Zeljko Bulatovic made only one substitution during the entire match, as his team worked as a well-fixed mechanism. Middle-blocker Ekaterina Efimova showed a perfect performance in attack — four points out of four possible.

As a MVP of this match was chosen Nataliya Goncharova with 19 points and 50% efficiency in attack. Ekaterina Enina scored 13 points for Uralochka-NTMK EKATERINBURG.

Mikhail Karpol, coach of Uralochka-NTMK EKATERINBURG: “Two days ago we played a difficult home match in the Russian Superleague and did not have time to fully recover our strength. Of course, we wanted to fight in the Champions League, but today we made too many mistakes and failed to set any difficult tasks for the opposite team. We struggled, but it wasn't enough.”

Helena Havelkova, the outside-spiker of Dinamo MOSCOW: "The result should not be misleading, it is always difficult to play in Ekaterinburg. Our team has recently changed the head coach, we are still getting used to his needs and are working on new tactical elements. In this game, our block worked very well, we did a good job with the serve. What will happen next — we will not guess. We will continue to focus on each new game”.

Zeljko Bulatovic, the head coach of Dinamo MOSCOW: "I think that today our victory was predetermined by two factors — we took the serve very well and raised a lot of points in the defence. I am happy that the team coped with the small difficulties that arose at the beginning of the third set and returned to the struggle. This was an important moment for us.”