CEV Men’s European Championship 2019 - hosts France, Slovenia, Belgium and the Netherlands

I have just lost the count of how many times Sokolov has been blocked. He always has to face 2 blockers. So far, Slovenia with 9 blocks in 2 sets and a half

Dimitrov's sets to 4 are a little high and out of sync.

What a disastrous substitution.

I am sad...

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Ukraine is my dark horse. At the next round, they can win over Bel

I told you guys! Slava Ukraine

Ukraine is a good team. Two of their OHs play in the top 2 leagues of Europe. It was not easy for Belgium especially with a new coach.

congrats to slovenia. They could have won this game 3x0. They had 24x22 in first set.

In the 2nd set Bulgaria had 5x1 and Cebulj served really well. After that, Bulgaria dissapeard.

This was a really bad game of Sokolov. And without him Bulgaria had no chance.

I think the time of Gasparini is over. He have difficults in attack and his serve is not the same as some years ago. The problem is that Stern is not so effective, specially with high balls.

Cebulj had an amazing game. Slovenia served really well and it made things easily.

Imo Russia and Poland are the best teams in Europe, and i dont think slovenia or any other team can defeat them, only if they have a really bad night. But i will be with slovenia. At least i hope they can play a good game.

Some Italian players also got food poisoned before the match.

Was Juan injured in this game? I hope he's ok.

Juan is the core player of Italy if they wanna beat France in 1/4 final. Zaytsev is not as solid as before.

Antonov was horrible in this game. Lanza's already sent home after the injury.

Slovenia takes 1se set against Russia.. At the last point, Poletaev landed on Muserskiy's right foot please no more injuries for the Russian team

Kliuka is underperforming a little by his standards. Russia not so dominant in attack

Slovenia-Russia 2-0. Russia on the verge of being eliminated

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Not changing Volkov with Mikhaylov is kind of scandalous.

Slovenia is doing their job and waiting Russian mistakes. Volkov is helping them enormously

Yeah both Kiluka and Volkov are not on their usual level today. Volkov had a 19 point performance in the previous match so I'm not sure what's happening

Now Russia seems to have woken up lol

If Russia are out, then there's no team can stop Poland.

OMG, how many net touches have Russia got today?

I don't think Slovena is playing anything special, Russia is killing themselves thru their errors

Using Mikhaylov as serving sub while Volkov is playing worst game of his life...Poor coaching.

russia was the male version of dominican republic team today , terrible

i dont know why volvich is still on NT, he is just useless

So Russia just beat a strong USA team a few months ago to claim VNL gold and now they got defeated by Slovenia. And mind you Russia beat Slovenia in straight sets in Pool play. I'm not sure what is happening with them it seems they always under-perform whenever the veterans go back to the team.. Maybe a case of too many stars perhaps?

This is the first result for Sammelvuo with the NT that has resulted in a failure after a pretty good year winning Russian championship, VNL, and Olympic qualifiers. This result is a disaster for the Men's team to say the least.