Volleyball world, Italy beat Argentina and fly to the quarter-finals

By our correspondent Gian Luca Pasini

October 7
– Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Italy separates the pass to the quarter-finals, which it reached for the second time in its history. No problem against Argentina We got here with very different ambitions and very different goals out of the blue.

Italy-Argentina 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-17)

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Mazzanti re-proposes the same team that bypassed Japan by deploying the Silla and Bosetti diagonals. The first group with South America remains in equilibrium for a short time because the blue immediately collects the decisive break. A huge difference in pitch between the sixes, while Orro distributes the offensive game among all comrades even if Paola Egonu stood out with 6 points in the group and a remarkable efficiency of 75%. The scenario in the second set is not much different with the Italian team that immediately broke the set, and coach Gennari also sends to the field (instead of Bosetti): Anna Danesi star with 7 points in breakage (two walls) and 83% efficiency. The third group is a photocopy of the previous two groups, the blue group focuses on the next goal and closes the exercise with the clearest result. Not before the entry of Marina Lubien who was sent on the field to replace Chirichella and not before the Malinov-Nuwacalore double replaced Igono-Oro. Tomorrow at 1.30 pm is the last match of the second stage after moving to Apeldoorn. The Blues play against China, which they have already faced in the quarter-finals of the League of Nations in Ankara. For Italy on the line, they finished first in this group and the possibility of a theoretically easier quarter-final, scheduled for Tuesday, 17 or 20.