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Sometimes a warm up can give you an idea as to how a match will develop. With Hungary and Croatia, the warm up intensity was quite low and the match started without much concentration on both sides. Both teams made many mistakes, and they had many ace serves and very little points from their attacks.

Croatia won the first set 25-19, though the game was pretty even until 17-17. Croatia had five ace serves, but also six mistakes in this same compartment and nine points that they gave away (by their own mistakes) to Hungary as a gift. Luckily, their reception rate stood at an impressive 72%.

However, when Hungary’s head coach Jakub Gluszak made a change and instead of their team captain Gréta Szakmary sent Kata Török in, Hungary picked themselves up and shortly afterwards they took the lead. Croatia managed the tie at 16-16, by scoring five points in a row, and it seemed they would overtake the lead and they would decide the set in their favour, but Hungary responded well and won the set 25-21.

Croatia dominated the third set to win it by 25-17. Coach Daniele Santarelli trusted the team and made no changes to the starting six and the girls justified his trust in the end.

In the last, fourth set, Croatia took the lead at 15-12, Hungarian coach Gluszak called a time-out, but gained nothing by it, so he called one more at 19-13. The Croatian girls were impossible to stop though on their way to a 4^th consecutive victory to keep first place in Pool C.