Egnu leads Milan to third place in the Champions League! Defeated Wakifer Bank 3-1, and Yuan Xinyue ended with 5 points

On May 4, Beijing time, the third place match of the 2025 Champions League began, and Yuan Xinyue's Turkish Super League champion Wakifu Bank women's volleyball team played against the Milan women's volleyball team led by Egnu. In yesterday's semi-final match, the Wakifer women's volleyball team lost 0-3 to the Italian Scandicci women's volleyball team, while the Milan women's volleyball team lost to the Conegliano women's volleyball team. Both teams will be battling for third place in this game, which is also the last game of the season for both teams. In the end, the two sides fought fiercely for three games, and the Milan women's volleyball team won 3-0, with a score of 25-15, 25-19, 23-25, 25-18.

In the first game, the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team and the Milan women's volleyball team played a very close game in the first half of the game, but as the game deepened, the Milan women's volleyball team strengthened the aggression of the serve, and continuously destroyed a pass of the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team through the serve, and finally took a big lead in the middle and late games, taking the next city 25-15. In the second game, the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team changed formations, and Posetti and Franty and Markova served as side attackers, which was also the main solution to the problem of one pass, and Van Rijk did not appear in this game.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw, and the Milan women's volleyball team's one-pass stability was relatively higher, and the players' attacking power was also very good. Without the pressure of a pass, Markova's attack was stronger, and the score was always stale, and the score was not pulled away by the Milan women's volleyball team, and the two sides fought to 5 draws. Then the Milan women's volleyball team continued to attack the Wakifer Bank with a pass, and the unstable attacker exposed the strong offensive pressure, and the Milan women's volleyball team continued to grasp the defense and score, leading by 2 points at 9-7. In the middle game, the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team had another problem with a pass, and the consecutive passes were not in place, and Milan seized the opportunity to pull the score away again, leading by 4 points at 18-14. At the end of the game, Yuan Xinyue scored with a header, Wakifer Bank chased the score 18-21 and fell behind by 3 points, and the Milan women's volleyball team replaced Serra at the last moment, and with the smash score, the Milan women's volleyball team won the second game 25-19.

In the third game, the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team continued to tie the score with the opponent, and in the middle game, they led by 2 points at 18-16. Wakifer Bank scored on a counter-attack from Delya to bring the score to a three-point lead at 19-16. Kurtagic and Ciala scored on a joint block to bring the score to 17-19 and trail by two points. At the end of the game, Markova scored an offensive score to help Wakifer lead by 3 points at 22-19, and the Milan women's volleyball team was attacked by Egnu's serve at the end of the game, and the score was only 1 point away, and Wakifer Bank led 24-23, and then Goodetti called a timeout. After the timeout, Milan made a mistake on the smash of Serra, and Wakifer Bank pulled one back to 25-23.

In the fourth game, Wakifer Bank continued its good form in the third game, maintaining a lead at the beginning and leading by two points at 15-13 in the middle game. Milan's main attacker Kaschate counterattacked and scored to help Milan tie the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team. With Milan blocking the net and scoring, 16-15 Milan achieved a comeback. At the end of the game, Milan did not give the Wakifer Bank women's volleyball team another chance and sealed the victory 25-18.