Post-Match - Russia-USA - FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Japan 2018

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Volleyball 04/10/2018

World champions USA sweep Pool C with tiebreak win over Russia

Kobe, Japan, October 4, 2018 - The United States showed that they were in no mood to let go of their World Championship crown by defeating Russia 3-2 in the last match of Pool C at Kobe Green Arena on Thursday evening. The Americans, who won the world title for the first time in 2014, beat the 2006 and 2010 world champions Russia 19-25, 25-20, 26-24, 12-25, 15-11 to complete a perfect 5-0 win-loss record in the first stage. Russia slipped to 4-1.

Volleyball 04/10/2018

Russia 'pushed us on our heels', says USA coach

Kobe, Japan, October 4, 2018 - United States Head Coach Karch Kiraly: Russia started the match out very strong and pushed us on our heels. I really like the way that our team responded and had great fighting spirit; even after a disappointing fourth set we came back strong in the fifth set.

72
Attack
68
15
Block
13
4
Serve
5
14
Opp. Errors
11
105
Total
97

51
Dig
43
51
Reception
47
6
Set
22

Best scorers 8 Nataliya Goncharova 36 15 Kimberly Hill 19
18 Kseniia Parubets 16 10 Jordan Larson 16

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Match Statistics by Players

N°	Name	1	2	3	4	5	Points	Attack		Block		Serve
N°	Name	1	2	3	4	5	Points	Won	Attempts	Won	Attempts	Won	Attempts
8	Nataliya Goncharova		36	35	61	1	8	0	12
18	Kseniia Parubets		16	16	40	0	3	0	15
14	Irina Fetisova		14	6	10	8	13	0	15
16	Irina Voronkova		13	10	25	1	5	2	30
6	Irina Koroleva		9	4	8	4	11	1	13
13	Evgeniya Startseva		2	1	1	0	4	1	14
20	Daria Malygina		1	0	1	1	1	0	0
2	Daria Talysheva		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Ekaterina Efimova		0	0	0	0	0	0	2
7	Tatiana Romanova		0	0	0	0	0	0	3
9	Alla Galkina		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Ekaterina Lyubushkina		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	Olga Biryukova		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Anna Kotikova		0	0	3	0	1	0	2

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N°	Name	1	2	3	4	5	Points	Attack		Block		Serve
N°	Name	1	2	3	4	5	Points	Won	Attempts	Won	Attempts	Won	Attempts
15	Kimberly Hill		19	16	44	2	10	1	16
10	Jordan Larson		16	15	32	0	5	1	15
16	Foluke Akinradewo		16	12	21	4	14	0	11
12	Kelly Murphy		14	11	25	3	7	0	8
24	Karsta Lowe		9	8	18	1	2	0	4
8	Lauren Gibbemeyer		8	5	12	2	13	1	15
13	Sarah Wilhite		2	0	0	0	0	2	9
3	Carli Lloyd		1	0	2	1	5	0	12
14	Michelle Bartsch-Hackley		1	1	1	0	0	0	1
1	Micha Hancock		0	0	0	0	0	0	5
5	Rachael Adams		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Tetori Dixon		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Megan Courtney		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Kelsey Robinson		0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Rankings

Rank	Teams	Matches				Result Details						Sets			Points
Rank	Teams	Total	Won	Lost	3-0	3-1	3-2	2-3	1-3	0-3	Points	Won	Lost	Ratio	Won	Lost	Ratio
1	USA	5	5	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	13	15	5	3.000	454	387	1.173
2	Russia	5	4	1	3	0	1	1	0	0	12	14	5	2.800	433	356	1.216
3	Thailand	5	3	2	0	2	1	2	0	0	10	13	10	1.300	471	467	1.008
4	Azerbaijan	5	2	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	6	7	10	0.700	393	383	1.026
5	Korea	5	1	4	1	0	0	1	2	1	4	7	12	0.583	400	426	0.938
6	Trinidad and Tobago	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	1	15	0.066	271	403	0.672