Victorious squad
In first set France was a better team with unstoppable Antonin Rouzier. Slovakia couldn’t block him on the right side of the net. Coach Chrtianski tried to change the look of the game of his team by double-substitution with Juraj Zatko and Milan Bencz, but the set was already lost for his team as point advantage grew up to the six points. France finally beat Slovakia 25:20.
Sports aggresive was a Stefan Chrtiansky’s team attitude on the beginning of the second part, when mostly thanks to great game of Tomas Kmet they led 8:5, holding dominance only till 15:15. Then France started to play their volleyball, however ace of Chrtianski jr. set the score for 22:22. It was even 24:22 for Slovakia, but brave Earvin Ngapeth, who continued his great streak, served and ace whilst Slovakia had a setball, equalize the score in effect. Much more cool-headed France won the thrilling neck-to-neck part 35:33.
In third set Slovakia started to play effective volleyball, whereas France started to lose control over the game, making some errors. However, in the end they were more clam again, drawing 22:22, but then Nemec failed his spike for 22:23. Then the game was close till the end, but France won it eventually by Kevin Le Roux’s block 28-26.
In French team, the best scorer were Earvin Ngapeth with 18 points and Antonin Rouzier (17). On Slovakia’s side it was a good performance of Ogurcak, who scored 14 points for his team.
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