Argentina beats Belgium despite fewer points to fight for second place at men’s volleyball pre-Olympics

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With the end of the fourth round of Group Cof Men’s Pre-Olympic Volleyball, the qualifying phase is heading towards the home stretch. This Wednesday (4), four other matches took place, only one of which required more than 3 sets. In matches, Bulgaria, Argentina, Poland and Canada wonrespectively, Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico and China.

Bulgaria x Netherlands

During the European clash which marked the start of the fourth round, both selections had the same retrospective of two defeats and one victory until there. Despite similar situations indicate a balance and it will be seen on the ground, the The end result indicated a very different reality. This is because, even with the Bulgarians win 3-0 (25-23; 25-21; 30-28), all sets were extremely competitive, culminating with the little difference in total points, from 80 to 72. In this way, with a similar number of points, the artillery was open and was conquered by the Dutch Nimir Abdel-AzizWhat scored 16 points.

Argentina x Belgium

This was the longest match of the round, requiring all five sets to define a winner. Lasting more than two hours, the match was extremely balanced and something unusual It happened to Belgium lost with more points than Argentina (108-104). Furthermore, the Belgians were also the highlight of the match, with Ferre Reggers has scored an incredible 27 times. However, at the end of the match, the score was 3-2 (25-22; 25-23; 18-25; 21-25; 15-13) for the Argentinians, who were more objective and showed themselves living in the fight for second place.

Poland x Mexico

In no case would it be possible to formulate a confrontation as unequal as this one. On the one hand, there was the leader of the group, which I haven’t lost any matches so far And on the other hand, Lantern, What You don’t know what it feels like to win just one set in a competition. It’s like that everything remained as before, Poland continued to win and Mexico continued to win no sets in the tournament. In this context, the The excited Poles applied a 3-0 (25-21; 25-19; 25-14) and if isolated themselves in the direction. With a large variation of points, the Poles Tomasz Fornal necessary score only 10 times to become the top scorer of the match.

Canada vs. China

Playing at home, the Chinese won the last match and sought to maintain the positive sequence in the competition. However, on the other side, there was a great team, Canada, which had its only defeat of the Polish leader. As one can imagine, despite the climate favorable to guests, the Canadians They didn’t make a mistake and won 3-0 (25-19; 25-22; 26-24), temporarily occupying the second position.

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