The Italian sextet, current world champion, needed one hour and 37 minutes to dispose of the Cuban team in the second week of the Volleyball Nations League, whose results will complete the selections for the next Olympic Games.
As happened against Canada and the Netherlands, the Antillean team found itself lacking in defense at the net, with six blocks, concentrated in three of its players: Marlon Yant, David Concepción and Christian Thondike. The other scourge was the unforced errors, which reached up to 30, many of them on the serve, which prevented us from playing volleyball.
Yesterday the management of the Caribbean team included Osniel Mergarejo, with the aim of seeking a reaction and refreshing the regular formation, or giving it movement, but it did not work either.
After the first two sets, in which Cuba stood at the level of the world’s monarchs, with an adverse score of 21-25 in the initial set, and with a good finish in the second half that gave it the victory by 25 -22, the downturn came. In the other two sets it seemed that they had changed the team that opened the challenge.
The comfortable Italian scores of 25-19 and 25-13, in the third and fourth periods, in addition to the high level of the Europeans, found a disjointed opponent, from the reception to the attack proposal, in pursuit of achieving goals. the blackboard. The team led by Jesús Cruz has the level for this endeavor, but needs to unite the light of its stars.
Being net in between with the second in the world ranking, Cuba, with a set won, lost only 1.44 points, and is now in 11th place, with 241.09, awaiting the outcome between Serbia and the United States. match that was being held at the close of this edition. If the Europeans fall 3-0 against the third-ranked team on the planet, they would close the day with 242.83. That is, they would have an advantage over the Cubans of 1.74.
If it is 1-3, they would give up 2.26, to finish with 245.33, which would give them 4.24 units more than the Antilleans; and if they succumb 3-2, they would only lose 0.01, so they would be left, almost the same as how they started the day yesterday: 247.58. But if he wins, he takes a huge leap, since a 3-0 would give him 15.24; a 3-1, 12.74 and a 3-2, 10.24.
Cuba closes today with France, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, which appears in seventh position in the ranking. How are the scores against the Gauls?: 0-3 (minus 5.45), 1-3 (minus 2.95), 2-3 (minus 0.45), 3-0 (14.55), 3 -1 (12.05) and 3-2 (9.55), and wait for the Serbians against the Argentines, a duel between eight and nine in the ranking.
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