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WC M: Iran overplayed Tunisia for first win

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Iran has defeated Tunisia on the second day of the FIVB World Cup 2015 in Japan and scored the first victory and three points.

Amir Ghafour

Iran vs. Tunisia

After big fight at the beginning of the match and equal play until 10-10, Iran started to attack much stronger and calmly which brought them leadership of 1-0 in sets (25-17).

Tunisia did not want to surrender; they were on the high level and very quickly equalized 1-1 in sets (25-21).

After team of coach Slobodan Kovač lost the second set, they started to play much better. With good reception and strong attack, also a very high block they have finished third set 25-14.

Ghafour was unstoppable, also Ebadipour  and Iran easily finished fourth set. Soft shot from Ebadipour  brought match point for Iran (24-19) but Tunisia made block. Manavinezhad finished the match as the block on his shot goes out.

Iran win 3-1 (25-17, 21-25, 25-14, 25-20).

Amir Ghafour was the top scorer of the winning team with 24 points followed by Mirzajanpour 11. On the other side Marouen Garci scored 21 for Tunisia and Elyes Karamosly 8.

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