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In the first match of the round of 16 of the Cup Winners Cup, Ardesen came to Russia with a roster of only 10 handball players and three official club representatives. Nine out of those players are foreigners (three players each from Ukraine, Croatia and Serbia) who carry the game this season, but the fact is that in this match against Lada they will have only two extra players in the roster on the bench, and for certain positions in the team (right back, right wing, pivot) they have a single player who will have to play for the entire 60 minutes. That's not enough against a team such as the Russian Lada, a team who have a record of 11 wins and a single defeat in the Russian championship (the defeat was against Rostov, a team with the best efficiency so far in the Champions League), with great width, with a complete back line of Russian national team players (Bliznova, Dimitrieva, Akopian), and a game concept based on quick transition. The Turkish club will have a hard time keeping up with all of that. Ardesen are a team who in the last round sensationally knocked out Team Esbjerg, the leading team of the Danish league, but there's the question of motivation for the Danish club at this competition considering that last season they did almost the same thing in Euro Cups, alto against a Turkish team, in order to completely devote themselves to the home championship. Lada's motivation is not questionable, they're aiming for the title at this cup, in the last round after a two-legged meeting against Oldenburg they crushed them, especially after the first match in Russia with +13 (37-24). Ardesen lost the two seasonal away matches in this competition, they're known as the "home" team where they have the support of their fans, so the Russian will insist on crushing them in the first leg in order to avoid tensions in the second leg.