On September 4, 2022, Beijing time, the men's volleyball world championship entered the knockout stage, the first game, the host Slovenia eliminated Germany 3-1, advanced to the quarterfinals, which is the first time Slovenia has reached the quarterfinals of the world championship, creating a new record in team history. Then, the Italian men's volleyball team, the opponent of the Chinese men's volleyball team, appeared on the scene, and they eliminated Cuba 3-1 and easily advanced to the quarterfinals.
This men's volleyball world championship, after the end of the first stage of the group stage directly into the knockout stage, one of the hosts Slovenia is the knockout no. 2 seed, 1/8 final opponent is the German men's volleyball team. Slovenia, ranked 8th in the world, played even better, especially the offensive end completely occupied the initiative, and its own mistakes were fewer, and finally eliminated Germany 3-1, with a score of 25-18, 25-19, 21-25, 25-22 in the fourth set.
This is the first time slovenia has reached the quarter-finals of the men's volleyball world championship, creating the best result in team history. Next, Slovenia's opponent is the winner between the Dutch men's volleyball team and the Ukrainian men's volleyball team, the opponent is average, and Slovenia is expected to continue to move forward.
Then, the Italian men's volleyball team played against the Cuban men's volleyball team in the first round of the knockout round. The Italian men's volleyball team is the same group of opponents of the Chinese men's volleyball team, and they played quite well in the group stage, winning 3-0 in all three games, ranking first among all participating teams. However, since hosts Poland and Slovenia occupy the top two seeds in the knockout round, Italy can only play in the knockout round as the No. 3 seed, against the Cuban men's volleyball team.
The Cuban men's volleyball team advanced to the knockout round with the third place in the group, and the overall strength did have a gap compared with Italy. However, the Attack of the Cuban Men's Volleyball Team is quite good, and the technical statistics after the game show that the Cuban Men's Volleyball Team leads Italy 52-39 at the offensive end, but the Cuban Men's Volleyball Team itself has too many mistakes, sending points up to 44 points, 16 points more than Italy, and the other is that Cuba has a big gap in the net, and finally lost 1-3, the four-game score was 21-25, 25-21, 24-26, 18-25, and Italy lost the first set in the fourth game of the World Championships.
Next, the opponent of the Italian men's volleyball team is the winner between the French men's volleyball team and the Japanese men's volleyball team, if there is no accident, Italy's opponent should be the Olympic champion French men's volleyball team, which is obviously a strong dialogue, for the Italian men's volleyball team, this should be the biggest test so far.
At present, the men's volleyball world championship eight has decided two seats, respectively, The European powerhouse Slovenia and Italy, according to the schedule, the next two knockout matches are the United States men's volleyball team against Turkey, the Polish men's volleyball team against Tunisia, the American men's volleyball team and the Polish men's volleyball team are among the favorites to win the championship, can they successfully advance to the quarterfinals? Let's wait and see!