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Viborg woke up late in the first semifinal match, but 30 minutes of the second part were enough for them to show who's the "boss" in this duel. Viborg only had one blunder this season, on the qualifications tournament to get to the Champions League against the Romanian Baia Mare, and they paid for that by losing the placement in the elite company, but the fact is that they have players who earn to be among Europe's top four teams. They had injury issues this season, but they got over it and played the season finish in a hellish rhythm. They lost only three times this season, defeated this year's finalist two times in the Champions League, Midtjylland with 3 and 9 goals difference, two times Randers who are one of the best European teams, it was +10 in the match a month before that, and crushed another Champions League competitor, the Hungarian Ferencvaros with +8 in this cup's quarterfinals. Rostov are the second-placed team in the Russian championship, but have a big break in this period, only one match within the Russian cup in 40 days. They mostly won the matches at home, but the fact is that they lost two away matches, against Podravka and Buxtehuder. Today, they'll be trying to neutralize the negative from the first match, and that will be really hard against Viborg on their court. First because they have to speed the game up and partially open up, which is not their style of playing, second, because Viborg have extra potential in their offense, they're playing to get a goal more, and will probably have a bit more freedom today than in the first match. In the first match, only Tortsensson was herself, today, Damnjanovic, Gullden and Burgaard have to crush the Russian defense.