"We served really well today" said the top scorer of the match, Stephanie Enright of Puerto Rico
Zielona Góra, Poland, June 4, 2016 - Puerto Rico defeated Canada 3-0 in the first match of the second day of FIVB WGP Group 2B tournament in Zielona Góra. Both teams played on very different energy levels compared to their yesterday's performance and only in case of Puerto Rico it was the change for better.
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Juan Carlos Nunez, Puerto Rico coach: We played a very good match today. We were watching yesterday’s match Canada against Poland and prepared well for today’s game. We played well at each position, we showed very good, strong service, fast passing and high efficiency in attack.
We’re expecting a tough match tomorrow against Poland, next European team we have opportunity to fight against in this Pool on our way to Olympics in Rio. Poland is a tall team with a good block so I think that tomorrow my setter‘s performance will be very important.
Arnd Ludwig, Canada coach: I think we looked very tired today, very flat and tired. It's started mostly with our head and we couldn't get our focus at all. We were slow in our feet and head, and our game was not even close to what we played yesterday and what we can do. We have to figure out what we could have done better today and definitely do it better tomorrow.
Stephanie Enright, Puerto Rico: We are very happy with today’s convincing win and generally with our team’s performance in WGP tournament in Zielona Góra. Our aim is to qualify for the Final Four and today we made next step to go to Bulgaria.
Today we concentrated on serving. Canadians had lack of passing. We served really well and we had a lot of discipline on blocking which provided us with opportunities for counter attacks and that gave us many points today.
Michaela Reesor, Canada: I think we are going sit all individually and refocus. Staff will be looking on our mistakes – what we need to fix for tomorrow, but we need really to be better prepared mentaly for tomorrow's game .
Passing caused us a lot of troubles today. Our passers were very young coming out with our team. As we go along we are trying to get some more experience. Later on in the games it's easier, but I think against any team that is serving on us we need to put a bit more focus on passing, so we can get the ball out there to run our middles, which is gonna be our strong point.