ITALY
Play By Play
BULGARIA
Top Scorer
- 22 - Tsvetan SOKOLOV (BUL)
- 21 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 20 - Osmany JUANTORENA PORTUONDO (ITA)
Overview
The last match for Bulgaria in Pool A will be against the 2005 EuroVolley champions from Italy. Prandi's men may try and react after their tough loss to France yesterday, but Italy want to keep their clean sheet in EuroVolley 2019 before facing hosts France.
Tsvetan Sokolov"Tonight will be different, because yesterday we showed nothing. Today is a new day and a new challenge so I believe we will show better Volleyball than yesterday."
Bulgaria's opposite
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Match Polls
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Officials
First RefereeMykhaylo MEDVIDUKRSecond RefereeBlaz MARKELJSLO
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Venue Information
L'Arena is the first new-generation multi‐purpose hall in France. This venue can host concerts, sports events, congresses, and exhibitions. L'Arena offers an ideal location, just a few hundred meters from the airport and with tram connection to the city center. The Arena has been designed with visitor comfort in mind: bars, luggage rooms, air conditioning, information screens, and entertainment...: unrivaled conditions of comfort ensuring that you make the most of its exceptional events program Capacity: 10700
- How To Attend
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Team
- SBERTOLI Riccardo2 Setter
- LANZA Filippo10 Outside spiker
- RUSSO Roberto15 Middle blocker
- ANZANI Simone17 Middle blocker
- LAVIA Daniele19 Outside spiker
- NELLI Gabriele20 Opposite
ITALY 
Address
Viale Tiziano, 70 (Mailing) ROMAContacts
Previous Games
| 24/09/2019 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 22/09/2019 | vs. |
3 - 0 | W | Go to Match Centre |
| 18/09/2019 | vs. |
1 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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32Competitions Played
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4Titles
- Competition
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7Matches Played
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5Matches Won
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71%Win %
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16Sets Won
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582Points Won
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53%Attack %
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47%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1989
- Birth Place: Camposanpiero - PD
- Height: 200 cm
- Birth Date: 1985
- Birth Place: Santiago de Cuba
- Height: 200 cm
- Birth Date: 1991
- Birth Place: Zevio
- Height: 196 cm
- Birth Date: 1995
- Birth Place: Camposanpiero - PD
- Height: 180 cm
- Birth Date: 1985
- Birth Place: Gagliano del Capo (LE)
- Height: 180 cm
- Birth Date: 1990
- Birth Place: Asti
- Height: 209 cm
- Birth Date: 1988
- Birth Place: Moscow
- Height: 198 cm
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Cariati
- Height: 200 cm
Team
- DIMITROV Dobromir3 Setter
- ATANASOV Martin4 Outside spiker
- TODOROV Teodor14 Middle blocker
- KADANKOV Venelin15 Opposite
- PENCHEV Nikolay17 Outside spiker
- GROZDANOV Aleks20 Middle blocker
BULGARIA 
Address
25 Nezabravka Str. SofiaContacts
Previous Games
| 21/09/2019 | vs. |
1 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 17/09/2019 | vs. |
1 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
| 16/09/2019 | vs. |
0 - 3 | L | Go to Match Centre |
- All Time
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32Competitions Played
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0Titles
- Competition
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6Matches Played
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3Matches Won
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50%Win %
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11Sets Won
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473Points Won
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50%Attack %
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53%Reception %
Team
- Birth Date: 1985
- Birth Place: Omurtag
- Height: 205 cm
- Birth Date: 1991
- Birth Place: Pazardżik
- Height: 197 cm
- Birth Date: 1996
- Birth Place: Sofia
- Height: 196 cm
- Birth Date: 1990
- Birth Place: Pernik
- Height: 206 cm
- Birth Date: 1990
- Birth Place: Pernik
- Height: 191 cm
- Birth Date: 1989
- Birth Place: Montana
- Height: 208 cm
- Birth Date: 1987
- Birth Place: Burgas
- Height: 200 cm
- Birth Date: 1992
- Birth Place: Plovdiv
- Height: 197 cm
- Birth Date: 1989
- Birth Place: Dupnitsa
- Height: 206 cm
- Birth Date: 1998
- Birth Place: Sofia
- Height: 206 cm
- Birth Date: 1999
- Birth Place: Sliven
- Height: 195 cm
Recent Results
ROMANIA
ITALY
(15 - 25, 14 - 25, 25 - 23, 14 - 25)
ITALY
GREECE
(17 - 25, 25 - 23, 25 - 19, 25 - 18)
PORTUGAL
ITALY
(21 - 25, 10 - 25, 22 - 25)
Team Statistics
Player Statistics
Head to Head
Davide CANDELLARO
Middle blocker
ITALY
Martin ATANASOV
Outside spiker
BULGARIA
Team Italy during National anthem
Coin toss
Italian Coach Gianlorenzo BLENGINI during time-out
Bulgarian Coach Silvano PRANDI during time-out
Osmany JUANTORENA PORTUONDO (ITA) spikes
Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA) spikes on Bulgarian block
Gallery
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Italy overcome Bulgaria in four sets
After a slow start, Italy defeated Bulgaria in four sets, thus assuring the first or second place of Pool A. Blengini’s men improved set after set to land on a clear victory in the last one, notably thanks to Juantorena and Zaytsev.
Bulgaria are through with pool matches and place third; they will therefore face the second team of Pool C, which still has to be determined given today's loss of home country Slovenia to North Macedonia. The final of Pool A between Italy and France will occur tomorrow at 8:30pm to decide the top two spots in the group.
The combined total number of points scored by both teams throughout the entire match.
The total length of the match, from the first serve through until the last point has ended.
Total number of people in attendance at the venue – taken at the end of the second set.
The combined total number of successful spikes achieved by both teams throughout the entire match.
An average of the two team service reception percentages from the complete match.
The number of successful point winning blocks of ITALY compared to BULGARIA.
ITALY number of service aces compared to BULGARIA
Errors leading to points of ITALY, next to those from BULGARIA
Ivan Zaytsev"It was a tough start for us, hard to face the energy of the Bulgarians who served and defended really well in the first set. But then we recovered and eventually won. Tomorrow, we'll play against France, a match we've been waiting for for a long time. They play really well at the moment but we'll try to mess them."
Italy's opposite
Teodor SALPAROV"We started very well the first few games, but against France and Italy we see where our team is right now. They we better than us. We have some rest days and then will play someone from Pool C so need to start to focus on this game"
Libero for Bulgaria
Daily Recap
PlayTop Scorer
- 22 - Tsvetan SOKOLOV (BUL)
- 21 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 20 - Osmany JUANTORENA PORTUONDO (ITA)
Top Attacker
- 19 - Tsvetan SOKOLOV (BUL)
- 19 - Ivan ZAYTSEV (ITA)
- 19 - Osmany JUANTORENA PORTUONDO (ITA)
Top Blocker
- 7 - Matteo PIANO (ITA)
- 3 - Viktor YOSIFOV (BUL)
- 3 - Davide CANDELLARO (ITA)
Top Server
- 2 - Tsvetan SOKOLOV (BUL)
- 2 - Svetoslav GOTSEV (BUL)
- 2 - Simone GIANNELLI (ITA)
Top Receiver
- 9 - Martin ATANASOV (BUL)
- 9 - Osmany JUANTORENA PORTUONDO (ITA)
- 8 - Massimo Vito COLACI (ITA)