Post-Match - Finland-Iran - FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship Poland 2014

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Volleyball 18/09/2018

Iran outlasts Finland in Varna

Varna, Bulgaria, September 18, 2018 – Iran beat Finland 3-2 (25-19, 22-25, 23-25, 25-23, 15-12) in an epic duel in Pool D in Varna. The match lasted 140 minutes, just a couple of minutes short of the record for the longest match at an FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championship since the introduction of the current scoring system.

Volleyball 18/09/2018

Kolakovic: It was a dramatic and nervous game

Varna, Bulgaria, September 18 - Iran overcame Finland 48 years after both teams met for the first and only time in any major competition. As same as in the distant 1970, when Bulgaria hosted the World Championship again, The Asians won but this time the victory came in 5 sets 3-2 (25-19, 22-25, 23-25). So after this match Finland maintain fourth place in Pool D while Iran will know their standing just after the final group match between Bulgaria and Poland.

61
Attack
59
12
Block
13
2
Serve
7
29
Opp. Errors
31
104
Total
110

31
Dig
37
31
Reception
22
1
Set
0

Best scorers 7 Niko Suihkonen 19 2 Milad Ebadipour Ghara H. 18
16 Samuli Kaislasalo 16 21 Morteza Sharifi 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
7	Niko Suihkonen		19	16	35	3	4	0	13
16	Samuli Kaislasalo		16	15	29	1	7	0	9
9	Tommi Juhani Siirilä		13	8	12	4	14	1	18
11	Sauli Sinkkonen		9	8	12	0	11	1	22
22	Sakari Antti Mäkinen		7	5	16	2	3	0	9
2	Eemi Tervaportti		4	2	5	2	5	0	17
10	Urpo Sivula		4	4	19	0	1	0	6
8	Elviss Krastins		3	3	22	0	4	0	11
3	Mikko Esko		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Lauri Kerminen		0	0	1	0	0	0	0
6	Antti Ronkainen		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Markus Kaurto		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Henrik Porkka		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	Niklas Aleksi Breilin		0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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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
2	Milad Ebadipour Ghara H.		18	16	30	1	6	1	16
21	Morteza Sharifi		16	12	28	3	8	1	10
16	Ali Shafiei		15	12	21	2	13	1	15
10	Amir Ghafour		10	8	30	0	3	2	23
25	Amir Hossein Toukhteh		10	5	13	4	16	1	15
4	Mir Saeid Marouflakrani		4	1	4	2	10	1	14
14	Mohammadjavad Manavinezhad		4	4	12	0	1	0	9
3	Saman Faezi		1	0	1	1	2	0	5
11	Saber Kazemi		1	1	2	0	2	0	2
5	Farhad Ghaemi		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Eraghi		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Mohammad Taher Vadi		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Mohammadreza Hazratpourtalatappeh		0	0	3	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	Poland	5	5	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	15	15	3	5.000	445	343	1.297
2	Iran	5	4	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	11	12	7	1.714	437	400	1.092
3	Bulgaria	5	3	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	9	11	6	1.833	395	368	1.073
4	Finland	5	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	6	9	12	0.750	453	471	0.961
5	Cuba	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	3	1	3	6	13	0.461	392	436	0.899
6	Puerto Rico	5	0	5	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	3	15	0.200	331	435	0.760