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JEQ W: France defeated Portugal in straight sets

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France easily edged Portugal in three straight sets (25-13, 25-20, and 25-14) to cement their second place in the group. France displayed great skills in blocking charting 12 in the end as their team captain Kim Nowak top scored with 12 points while Julie Oliveira-Souza and Christine Ngeleka Wa Kundinga added 10 and 9 respectively to the count of the winning side. Read latest volleyball news on Worldofvolley.com.

France-Portugal

France-Portugal

France started out very aggressive in each set going up 5:1, 8:3 and 8:0 and this set the tone for what was going to follow. While they dominated the scene in the first and third set with massive scores (25-13 and 25-14), the second was a little closer with Portugal moving even to the front at 6:5 and keeping the score tight up to 12 all. However, after that France accelerated the pace and did not look back anymore finishing it off at 25-20.

“It feels good to finish second as Serbia is clearly the best team in the group and they deserve to make it to the World Championship” France’s mentor Gael Le Draoulec said.

“I am not totally satisfied because we missed out on a spot for the Worlds and we did not play good enough with Serbia” team captain Kim Nowak added.

France played really good tonight and though we played fairly good in reception we could not keep their pace” Portugal’s mentor Gilda Harris stressed.“They were better and deserved to win”.

“We played very bad tonight while France performed well in every fundamental, so their victory is well deserved” Portugal’s team captain Ana Martins concluded.

To read more news from this competition click on 2013 FIVB Volleyball Women’s U20 World Championship – European Qualification.

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