Russia - Czech Republic (full match)

The second match of the day in group D was conquered by Russia, which beat the Czech Republic in three sets and ensured play-offs ticket, where is going to face first or second team from group B (probably Poland or Slovakia). David Konecny injured his left ankle right at the beginning of the match and was replaced by Michal Finger. Dmitriy Muserskiy was the best scorer with 12 points in that game, while the best scorer for the Czech Republic was Jan Stokr with 8 points. "We had problems with our attack", said Steward Bernard, the head coach of the Czech Republic. "In the first two sets we were able to play well against Russia, but in the last set we had very bad reception, we made too many direct mistakes". "We really thought about last night’s loss a lot", said Russia’s head coach Andrey Voronkov. “And I tried to take as much from it as I could". "In the third set finally our serves were good and we came back to our usual level of play" added his captain, Sergey Makarov. In the third match of the group D, Russia will play against Bulgaria, when national team of Germany will play against Czech Republic.

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