Australia, Japan Score Day 9 Upsets, VNL Top 4 Teams Remain the Same

  0 Wendy Mayer | June 10th, 2018 | Asian Volleyball, Australian volleyball, Brazilian Volleyball, Canadian Volleyball, European volleyball, FIVB Nations League - Men, International Volleyball, News, NORCECA volleyball, South American Volleyball, U.S. Men's National Team

2018 FIVB Men’s Volleyball Nations League – Week 3

After three weeks, none of the 16 teams have been mathematically eliminated although the picture looks awfully grim for 0-9 South Korea, which has just one point to its credit.

Week 3 was one of many upsets with Germany delivering two of those giant killer blows, before succumbing to a hungry Australia team on Sunday. Forty errors plagued the Germans, who opted to play without Tobias Krick and use Simon Hirsch in limited capacity.

In another surprise result, Japan edged past Italy in five sets with help from 43 Italian miscues.

Blocks were key in France as both Argentina and the host French piled up 12 and 14 stuffs respectively in wins over Korea and Serbia.

Brazil extended its win streak to seven matches with a 3-0 showing in Russia, including a sweep of China on Sunday, with help from a 21-point showing by Wallace DeSouza.

Russia’s Dmitriy Muserskiy was the top scorer on the day with 24 points in a four-set win over Iran, while Japan’s Yuji Nishida also notched 24 points as his team edged Italy in five.

Here’s a look at how it all went down on Sunday.

At the end of the day, the top four teams remained the same from day eight to day nine with Poland and Brazil tied at the top followed by France and the United States. Russia and Serbia swapped spots as the Serbs fell victim to France in a sweep and Russia edged past Iran.

 

Standings

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Poland 8 1 23 25 7 3.571 775 665 1.165
2  Brazil 8 1 23 26 8 3.250 800 724 1.105
3  France 7 2 22 23 9 2.556 776 671 1.156
4  United States 7 2 20 23 13 1.769 818 746 1.097
5  Russia 6 3 19 21 11 1.909 763 712 1.072
6  Serbia 6 3 15 18 17 1.059 776 764 1.016
7  Italy 5 4 16 20 16 1.250 813 789 1.030
8  Canada 5 4 15 18 15 1.200 755 753 1.003
9  Germany 4 5 13 16 18 0.889 758 762 0.995
10  Japan 4 5 11 15 21 0.714 784 813 0.964
11  Iran 3 6 9 15 20 0.750 791 812 0.974
12  Bulgaria 3 6 9 14 21 0.667 753 800 0.941
13  Argentina 2 7 8 14 21 0.667 772 823 0.938
14  Australia 2 7 6 11 23 0.478 715 804 0.889
15  China 2 7 6 9 23 0.391 667 751 0.888
16  South Korea 0 9 1 2 27 0.074 588 715 0.822

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Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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