The result caused disillusionment among the volleyball players of SC Potsdam. "We let ourselves be run over," said captain Laura Emonts on Sport1 after the 0-3 (18:25, 16:25, 14:25) defeat at MTV Stuttgart. In the final series for the German championship, the Brandenburgers are 1-2 down against the defending champions after three games – whoever has won three games wins the title.

If the Stuttgart women also win the fourth game on Saturday (17.00 CET/Sport1) in Potsdam's MBS Arena, they would be prematurely determined as champions. But the Potsdam women want to prevent this at all costs. "We've got our fans behind us, it's going to be a completely different game," Emonts promised. Should the championship race actually go into the fifth match, it would take place again in Stuttgart on Monday.

There, the Potsdam women had nothing to order on Wednesday in front of 2251 enthusiastic spectators. "Stuttgart served well, blocked well and also did a good job in defence," said Emonts. There was criticism from the 32-year-old for her own team: "We broke away one after the other, we weren't a team."

Only Serbian middle blocker Maja Savic and libera Aleksandra Jegdic reached their normal form with the guests. Savic had an attack rate of 69 percent – 9 points in 13 attacks. For Anett Nemeth, otherwise the most accurate attacker at SC Potsdam, the statistics showed a success rate of only 18 percent – 5 points in 28 attacks.