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If a team scores only four points by means of their spikes in a set, it is pretty obvious that they are facing very dominant opponents. That was the case in the matchup Hungary vs. Italy. Hungary started the first set with a lot of respect for their Italian colleagues and managed to score only 14 points (4 in attack - 2 in block, 2 with aces), including eight resulting from Italian mistakes. Even when they did not play at full speed, the Italian girls were dominant, so their victory in the end was very well deserved (25-16).

The second set was not much different from the first one. A routine game for the Italian girls who managed to record a 25-15 win in 23 minutes only. Hungary’s Polish-born coach Jakub Gluszak made a lot of changes within that set, trying to find more responsive and braver players, but without much success. On the other hand, Davide Mazzanti, the Italian coach, did not make a single substitution.

In the third set, Hungary managed to take the lead 6-5, but the Italians would not hear of it and punished their opponents with a run of eight points in a row for 13-6. At 18-11, the Hungarian coach called a time-out, trying to break the Italian pace, but it did not help much, as Italy closed the set and match at 25-19.