The Cuban men’s volleyball team fell this Friday in five sets against the powerful cast of Brazil at the beginning of the 20th edition of the World Championship Volleyball, which will host Slovenia and Poland until next September 11.
The duel corresponding to group B of the contest took place in the Slovak city of Ljubljana, where the disciples of Nicolás Vives managed to triumph in the first two partials with scores of 33-31 and 25-21, but later gave up in the remaining three, due to 16-25, 17-25 and 16-18, according to the report of the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
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The media points out that the Cubans had a very good start against the Brazilian favorites, and managed to tip the balance in their favor in the first two sets, but the leadership of the South American team made changes in the regulars that guaranteed them to triumph in the following two sets and match the match.
Already in the fifth and final set, the auriverdes opened up and came to have an advantage of four points, 8-12, but the Cubans came from below to give emotion to the closing of the match. They even tied at 13 points and struggled in the extra points until they finally fell 16-18.
The evenness of the match is reflected in the official statistics of the match, with better performance for Brazilin blocks (13-9) and unforced errors (27-31), while Cuba did it in attacks (54-53) and tied in services (5-5), reviews the ACN.
The top scorer of the challenge was the Brazilian Wallace de Souza, with 23 points —20 in attacks, two in blocks and one in services—, supported by Cuban nationalized Brazilian Yoandy Leal (22/17-3-2) and Lucas Saatkamp (11/6-4-1), refersmeanwhile, the sports site Hit.
For Cuba, Jesús Herrera (18/15-1-2), Miguel Ángel López (14/11-1-2) and Roberlandy Simon (10/13-3-0), underlines the report of the specialized media.
The Cuban team will return to the court next Sunday, August 28, to face the Qatari team —which this Thursday fell in three sets against Japan—, and two days later it will close its presentations with the cap against the Japanese, who must decide the second place of the key.
If they were among the first two in their section, those from the Island would advance to the next phase of the World Cup, although they could also do so if they manage to be included among the best third places in the group phase.
