The second phase of the Champions League Women commences tomorrow in France. Europe Cup winners in 2018 and semifinalists of the Champions Legue in 2021 2022 French Metz will welcome Serbia’s Novi Sad. The top 12 phase will be played by home-away matches with the groups of three clubs.
โWe have the same group as last year with Novi Sad and Hodonin. Last year we manage to beat both teams and we hope to make the same this year also. It will be a close group . Hodonin have a top player Sakura MORI and a very experienced player Natalia PARTYKA. However we are very happy to play the first matches home so we will try our best. We are ready for the big fight said club Manager Belguise LOIC.
For Metz in this season are listed: Pauline CHASSELIN Julia KOCH Charlene LESTIENNE Alexia NGUYEN with international stars Taipei’s CHENG Hsien-Tzu Romania’s Adina DIACONU Russia’s Mariia TAILAKOVA and Germany’s WU Jiaduo.
On the other side Novi Sad will put 18 years old Serbia’s Reka BEZEG into the fire in this match. They expects Hong Kong’s Yi Liam for the next match.
“We expect that Liam will join us in November and then we will also have Anamaria ERDELYI in our lineup. Until then we will lean on our youngsters. It was our policy before and it proved as right politics when we see progress that Aneta MAKSUTI Tijana JOKIC and Sabina SURJAN had in the past ” said coach Slobodan STOJANOV.