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Following their loss to Bosnia & Herzegovina on Thursday, Slovenia bounced back and beat Latvia 3-0. The second set proved the most competitive between the teams, as they battled until Slovenia won 29-27. The final part of the match belonged to Alessandro Chiappini and his team as they earned their first points in the Qualifier.

• Both teams went head to head in blocking, scoring 7 points each

• Slovenia led in attacking elements, getting 46 points, comparing to 34 points scored by Latvia

• Latvia played better in service, with four players scoring an ace 

• The top scorer of the match was Darja Erzen, who finished the match with 15 points. Her teammate Tina Grudina followed with 11 points

• On Latvia’s side Paula Nikola Neciporuka scored 10 points for her team

Eva Mori, setter of Slovenia:
“We don’t have so many chances, because we lost yesterday, but our coach told us – just play 100%, every point counts now. So we just went out of the locker room and said to ourselves - we can do it and we need to win 3-0. I’m really happy and proud of the team, because after yesterday’s loss we could have gone down, but we stood up and I can’t wait tomorrow’s game!”

Paula NECIPORUKA, outside spiker of Latvia: “I think we were really ready for this game. For us the beginning of each set was important, the second set was very equal and we started it strongly from the start. Overall I'm proud, we had a good energy on the court and we saw that we can play with this level’s teams with good results”.

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