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Start this Wednesday, 09/03, the race for the three remaining spots for the Final Four of the European Champions League, which will be held in Montichiari in Italy.

In the opening match a very difficult game for the Brazilian Fe Garay team. Dinamo Moscow, will face as visitor Fenerbahçe in Turkey and has the chance to decide at home, the place in the final phase.

The two teams have similar campaigns in both the local league and  Champions League.

Fenerbahçe is the leader of the Turkish League with 50 points in 21 games and suffered only two defeats, Eczacibasi and Vakifbank, both 3-2.

In Champions League, the Turkish team have no trouble to take the group E, accumulating 17 points in 6 games played. In the play-offs stage, defeated Chemick Police from Poland, with two wins by 3-0.

Dinamo Moscow is also making great things in the Russian Super League, an has the opportunity to break the Kazan winning streak. With 40 points in 14 games, Fe Garay's team is unbeaten in the competition.

In European competition, won 15 points in 6 matches and assured the first place in group F. In the first round of the playoffs the team faced Dresdner from Germany, winning both games by 1x3 and 3x0.

The teams also balance when it comes to individual performances.

For Fenerbahçe, the main highlights of the season are the South Korean outside-spiker Yeoung Kim and the opposite Serbian Brankica Mihajlovic.

Kim, the main player of the Turkish team, accumulated 192 points in the local league, 11.3 per game. In the Champions League, the Korean have scored 141 times, with an average of 17.6 points per game.

Brankica is also contributing to the success of Fenerbahçe in the season, in the Turkish League the opposite wrote down 190 points, averaging 10.6 per game, while in the Champions League the player has averaged 13.8 points.

Fenerbahçe also count in its roster with the middle-blockers Christa Harmotto (USA) and Eda Erden (TUR), the outside-spiker Lucia Bosetti (ITA), the setter Katarzyna Skorupa (POL) and libero Karadayi Gizem (TUR)

Natalia Goncharova and Fe Garay are the main highlights from Dinamo Moscow. The first, a phenomenon that leads the two competitions in points. However, Fe Garay has given the consistency in the pass and defense that the team needed at the beginning of the season, as well as provide important points for the team to made up here.

Goncharova already noted amazing 274 points in the Russian Super League, averaging 22.8 per game. In the Champions League, the Russian put 167 balls on the floor, 20.9 per game.

Fe Garay  is the second largest team scorer with 103 in the Russian competition, 12.9 per game. In European competition the Brazilian has also contributed, averaging 12.8 points per game.

Besides the two, the Dinamo also has the outside-spiker Yana Shcherban, the middle-blockers Ekaterina Lyubushkina and Irina Fetisova, the setter Ekaterina Kosianenko and libero Anna Malova, european champions defending the Russian national team.

The teams face off in Burhan Felek Voleybol Salonu in Istanbul on this Wednesday, 09/03 at 19:00h, local time. The return leg is scheduled for 22/03 in Moscow.

In other clashes, four teams fight for the other two places at the Final Four of the Champions League. Vakifbank and  Volero Zurich start the race on Thursday in Istanbul, while Dinamo Kazan and Nordmeccanica Piacenza also duel Thursday in St. Petersburg, in Russia.

The three teams that advance will join Pomì Casalmaggiore from Italy, team that will host the finals of the Champions League.