The match that seemed to be the most difference of today's competition in Volleyball Nations League 2023 between Italy vs Canada was the most intense and attractive compared to the remaining matches.
The defending champions of Italy have just won a strong victory against Brazil as well as showing impressive performance. Therefore, Italy is considered to have an easy victory.
This is confirmed by a strong victory in the first set with a gap of up to 11 points. However, the game was much more attractive after the screen compared to each point.
Canada is a better team at the end to get an important close victory. Italy once again surpassed the third set of 25-20 victory over the North American opponent.
The second set was repeated as Canada continued to play extremely uplifting and effective to get an impressive victory. Italy has times when seemingly seemed to be the opportunity in hand but in the end, it was still unable to take advantage of success.
The level of the defending champion team has proved his bravery in set 5 when winning quite easily, thereby bringing himself a dramatic victory out of prediction.
Young star Michielettio Alesandro became the most effective dam on the Italian side while Sclater Joseph “weighed the team” on the Canadian side with 22 points.
With this victory, Italy has risen to the 4th rank on the rankings when the same number of victories with Brazil and Poland. As for Canada, this team has dropped to 14th rank and faces the risk of Cuba or Bulgaria surpassed.
Italian volleyball results 3-2 Canada (25-14, 23-25, 25-20, 23-25, 15-9)