Lausanne, Switzerland, June 22, 2018 - Brazil and Poland go head-to-head Saturday in Melbourne for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in a rematch of the 2014 FIVB World Championship final, which Poland won in four sets at Katowice. The game, pitting the reigning world champions against the reigning Olympic champions, is the 56th between the two sides in history, with Brazil leading the series 37-18.
Head-to-Head
• Brazil and Poland have met 55 times at world level major tournaments. Brazil won 37, Poland 18.
• World level major competitions are: the VNL, Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, World League and Grand Champions Cup.
• This match is a repeat of the final of the 2014 World Championship, which Poland won 3-1.
• These teams have both won nine encounters and lost nine in their last 18 world level major tournament confrontations (since the 2011 World League).
• Brazil won their last world level major tournament match against Poland, 3-1 at the 2017 World League.
Brazil
• Brazil won 3-0 against Australia on Friday, ending a three-match losing streak in the VNL.
• It was Brazil's sixth straight-sets victory this tournament. They can win seven matches by 3-0 at a single world level tournament for the first time since the 2014 World Championship (7).
• They also lost two matches in straight sets. They could record three straight-sets defeats at a single major world level tournament for the first time since the 1997 World League (also 3).
• Wallace De Souza has scored 16 points against Australia to lift his total points at the Nations League to 208.
• De Souza became the second player to reach 200 points at the VNL after China's Chuan Jiang.
Poland
• Poland won in straight sets against Argentina, ending a three-match losing streak in the competition (all straight-sets defeats).
• Nine of Poland's 13 VNL matches were decided in three sets: W6-L3.
• Poland could claim at least 10 victories at a single world level major tournament for the first time since the 2015 World Cup (10 wins).
• In all of Poland's matches in this VNL, the winner of the first set, also won the match.
• Mateusz Bieniek scored a match-high 16 points against Argentina on Friday.