France Remains on Top, USA Climbs into Second in #VNL Standings

2018 FIVB Men’s Volleyball Nations League

May 25-July 8, 2018
Schedule/Results

It was another day of shocking results in the Volleyball Nations League as Brazil crumbled for the second straight match, falling via sweep to France. Canada, which was a big winner on Friday, also experienced a collapse, stumbling 3-0 against a short-handed Bulgaria squad.

Poland, which was in second place coming into Day 11, dropped to fourth place with a sweep at the hands of the United States.

Russia, meanwhile, took advantage of the shakeup in the Top 5, vaulting from fifth to third with a 3-0 win over Japan.

Italy and Serbia kept themselves in the Final Six race with wins over Korea and Iran, each in five sets.

The day also brought a 32 point effort by Serbia’s Aleksandar Atanasijevic in a five-set win over Iran, 21 points from Bulgaria’s Boyan Yordanov in an upset of Canada and 21 points by China’s Libin Liu in a four-set loss to Australia.

Here is a look at how it all happened.

Pool 13 Recap
Pool 14 Recap
Pool 15: Serbia Recap, USA Recap
Pool 16 Recap

Thus far only South Korea (0-11, 2 points) has been mathematically eliminated from the Final Six race with four days left in the competition.

Up Next

The United States looks to grab its third home victory and fifth-straight, when it wraps up Pool 15 with a match against Iran (11th, 4-7).

Canada (8th, 6-5) looks to climb back into the Final Six race in a head to head with first place France (9-2).

Poland (4th, 8-2), which is coming off its second loss in a row, faces a Serbian team (7th, 7-4) looking to creep closer to the Final Six.

Brazil (5th, 8-3) looks to bounce back from two uncharacteristic sweeps against Bulgaria (12th, 4-7), which is riding high after a sweep of Canada on Saturday.

At the other end of the spectrum, the bottom two teams will face off. Last place South Korea (0-11) will face 15th place China (2-9) looking to get its first VNL victory.

Standings

		Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	France	9	2	28	29	9	3.222	926	800	1.158
2	United States	9	2	26	29	13	2.231	968	856	1.131
3	Russia	8	3	25	27	11	2.455	914	837	1.092
4	Poland	8	3	23	25	13	1.923	903	817	1.105
5	Brazil	8	3	23	26	14	1.857	942	883	1.067
6	Italy	7	4	21	26	19	1.368	1016	979	1.038
7	Serbia	7	4	17	21	22	0.955	936	947	0.988
8	Canada	6	5	18	21	18	1.167	907	909	0.998
9	Germany	5	6	17	21	22	0.955	952	953	0.999
10	Japan	5	6	13	18	26	0.692	951	987	0.964
11	Iran	4	7	13	20	23	0.870	976	990	0.986
12	Bulgaria	4	7	12	17	24	0.708	896	943	0.950
13	Australia	4	7	12	17	25	0.680	933	1002	0.931
14	Argentina	2	9	8	15	27	0.556	921	994	0.927
15	China	2	9	6	11	29	0.379	867	965	0.898
16	South Korea	0	11	2	5	33	0.152	776	922	0.842