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Italy come from behind to prevent second Bulgarian sensation
- Updated: July 29, 2016
Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, July 28, 2016 – On the second day of the European qualifier for next year’s FIVB Volleyball U23 Women’s World Championship in Vrnjačka Banja, Italy came back from two sets down and cancelled a match point for Bulgaria in the third set to celebrate their second win in as many matches after they started their campaign by defeating Poland 3-0 on Wednesday.Later in the afternoon hosts Serbia stormed back after losing the first set of their ‘derby’ with Croatia to pull out a 3-1 victory – their first hurrah in the tournament. To complete the programme of the second competition day, Poland made up for a 0-2 deficit to sweep three sets in a row and edge Turkey – one of the tournament’s favourites – at the tie-break and regroup after suffering a heavy 0-3 loss at the hands of Italy on Wednesday.The eventual winners and runners-up of the single round robin tournament will qualify for next year’s World Championship in Slovenia.Italy v Bulgaria 3-2 (22-25, 20-25, 26-24, 25-14, 15-11)Italy prevented Bulgaria from causing another sensation in Vrnjačka Banja – they had defeated Serbia on Wednesday – even though the players from the Balkan country were close to making another surprise – but eventually failed to capitalise on a match point they had in the third set. After two sets where Bulgaria delivered a terrific performance, the ‘Azzurrine’ came back strong and in what turned out to be a game of nerves, the Italians emerged victorious in the end. They started blocking, playing better reception and scoring aces, which was enough to break Bulgaria’s resistance.Alice Pamio was one of the best scorers for Team Italy: “The power of our team is the character and here we are. After losing two sets we realised we had to change something and we started playing different. Tomorrow, we’ll have another difficult match, but we won’t stop …
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