Trento, 04 June 2018

National teams, 2nd we of VNL 2018: all the numbers of yellow blue players

Uros Kovacevic and Srecko Lisinac (ph. Fivb)

The second weekend of the 2018 Volleyball Nations League Preliminary Round ended last night and three Trentino Volley players played with their teams; the overall result sees four wins out of the six matches played.
While Grebennikov missed the away match in Poland with French team in order to enjoy some time off, Serbia played in Sofia (Bulgaria); Lisinac and Kovacevic won three tie breaks in three matches, defeating Russia first and then Australia. With 58 points scored by the two combined, the two players contributed to the success.
In South America, Giannelli had to deal with the first two defeats of the competition for Italy: after winning against Iran, Canada and Argentina outplayed them and Italy slipped to the seventh place in the rank lead by Poland and Brazil. During the next weekend Italy will challenge in Osaka (Japan) home team Japan, Poland and Bulgaria; Serbia will play in Aix En Provence (France) against France, Argentina and Corea.

Here following the statistics of the three Trentino Volley players during the 2018 Volleyball Nations League weekend.

SIMONE GIANNELLI (setter, Italy)
Friday, Canada-Italy 3-1: 2 points (2 blocks)
Saturday, Iran-Italy 0-3: 7 points (3 attacks, 1 block, 3 aces), 75% in attack (3 of 4)
Sunday, Argentina-Italy 3-0: 2 points (1 attack, 1 block), 100% in attack (1 of 1)

SRECKO LISINAC (middle-blocker, Serbia)
Friday, Bulgaria-Serbia 2-3: 13 points (9 attacks, 4 blocks), 75% in attack (9 of 12)
Saturday, Russia-Serbia 2-3: 13 points (9 attacks, 2 blocks, 2 aces), 60% in attack
Sunday, Australia-Serbia 2-3: 2 points (2 blocks)

UROS KOVACEVIC (spiker, Serbia)
Friday, Bulgaria-Serbia 2-3: 14 points (11 attacksi, 3 blocks), 45% in attack (11 of 24)
Saturday, Russia-Serbia 2-3: 6 points (5 attacks, 1 block), 50% in attack (5 of 10)
Sunday, Australia-Serbia 2-3: 10 points (9 attacks, 1 block), 56% in attack (9 of 16)

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