Iran and Serbia met on Saturday evening as part of the second week of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) World League 2016 while the Serbian Squad won all the sets against Iranian athletes except for the second one to win the match 3-1 overall.
Raúl Lozano’s outfit comprised Saeid Marouf, Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi, Adel Gholami, Milad Ebadipour, Shahram Mahmoudi, Mohammad Javad Manavinejad as well as Mehdi Marandi.
Shahram Mahmoudi scored 17 points for the Iran while Hamzeh Zarini was the country’s second top scorer with 15 points.
Serbia's Uros Kovacevic scored match-high 19 points followed by Drazen Luburic with 18 points.
Despite the strong and focused opening by the two sides, it was Seria who soon gained the upper hand to take an early 8-3 lead. Iran were chasing and managed to reduce the gap to two points only, but in the late stage Serbia easily finished the first set with 25-19.
Set two saw an Iran's slight advantage at the beginning and Serbia's run to catch their opposition which finally happened at 24-24. But two blocks from Iran scored them a 26-24 win.
Serbia took early the control of the game in set three and didn't lose it until the end, winning comfortably 25-18.
In the fourth set points were evenly distributed between the teams until 20-20 as Serbia gained a narrow advantage to round up the set 25-21 in their favor.
Accordingly, National volleyball team of Iran obtained a win over Bulgaria while conceded two defeats against Brazil and Serbia in the second week of the sportive extravaganza.
Meanwhile, Serbia claimed their sixth victory in as many matches in the 2016 World League.
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