Wallace & Brazil Could Not Stop Ivan Zaytsev

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HE IS BACK & HE IS WEARING MIZUNO!!!!

Ivan Zaytsev scored 32 points against Brazil yesterday and led Italy to win an epic 5 set match (18-25, 25-19, 25-21, 24-26, 15-8). The opposite hitter was just on fire and the Brazilians could not stop him despite replacing Evandro with Wallace in the last 2 sets.

Zaytsev also had the support of his teammates like Osmany Juantorena who scored 17 points plus the brilliant setting of Simone Giannelli.

I think we played well today and we were focused. We lost the first set because we had a poor service game, but then we got better and played better defense. The only thing that I regret is that we didn’t get to finish the match in the fourth set, but even so, every victory against Brazil is a good one.” -Zaytsev

With this victory, Italy remains undefeated with 2 wins while Brazil has 1-1 record. The Italians will face Serbia (1-1) later today and Germany will try to score their first win against Brazil to end Round 1 of the Volleyball Nations League aka VNL.

Source: http://www.volleywood.net/volleyball-tournaments/volleyball-nations-league/wallace-brazil-could-not-stop-ivan-zaytsev/