Russia - Italy (World League 2013, Highlights)

How to lose a set leading already 24:20? Russia can give lessons of this "art" because had 5 match balls (leading 2:0) in the Saturday’s match against Italy to finally give up and result to tie-break but fortunately for them succeeded. "The players felt too confident in the third set, and lost control. We had to start over in the fourth set and it was rather difficult. Nevertheless, we managed to improve our game and we achieved a positive result", said coach of Russia NT: Andrey Voronkov. Nikolay Pavlov was the top scorer with 26 points for the home side. He had 50% in attack. Italy's Ivan Zaytsev (56% in attack) scored 25 points. In the first match Italy won 3:1. In another game of group B, Iran was so close to make a surprise and overcome Serbia, however, finally lost in tie-break to the chagrin of their fans. However, in the second match Iran won 3:2! Germany won all matches against Cuba in the last week.

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