With only five points earned in five Tauron Liga matches, Nowy Dwór are in critical condition in the standings, trailing 11th-placed #VolleyWrocław (14) by nine. That means that even if everything goes their way over the next four days, they will still see themselves three points behind before the three last legs of the regular season.
On the contrary, if the difference between the teams increases, Nowy Dwór will no longer be able to avoid relegation in their first season in the Polish elite - in order to eliminate that risk, they need to earn at least three points in their two matches.
They will play ninth-placed ITA TOOLS STAL Mielec on Friday, the first day of matches in the eighth leg of the second round of the regular season, at 20:00 local time (19:00 UTC). In the first round, they went down in four sets.
On Monday, they return to action to face defending champions and league leaders KS DevelopRes Rzeszów at 19:00 (18:00 UTC) - this is a postponed match from the sixth leg of the second round. Nowy Dwór also lost to DevelopRes in the first round, going down in straight sets.
They enter the decisive four-day period in what's the best moment of their season so far. After going 14 matches without winning a single point, they added to their total in each of their last three encounters, taking a point in each of their five-set losses to ŁKS Commercecon Łódź and MOYA Radomka Radom and securing all three in a sweep of Sokół & Hagric Mogilno last Thursday, which represented their first-ever victory in the Tauron Liga.
