The France team was taken to the end of the tie-break and even had to erase a match point to get out of its unbreathable round of 16 against Japan on Monday evening in Cologne.
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These Blues like to be scared! The French team qualified in a snatch for the quarter-finals of the 2022 Volleyball World Cup, dominating the surprising Japanese three sets to two, Monday September 5 (25-17, 21-25, 26-24, 22-25, 18-16). Gold medalists at the Games for the first time in their history a year earlier, Earvin Ngapeth’s teammates had to go through a suffocating tie-break during which they erased a match point. They will face Italy on Wednesday in the quarter-finals (5:30 p.m.).