Faig Garayev: "We took the lead but couldn't win the game"

"But when the game started, the problems we had to fix couldn't be fixed. We made some easy misses. We should have been able to get more points but because of our own mistakes we couldn't finish off our attacks.

"Especially the first set, it was important to win but we made four serve errors and made other bad mistakes. In total there were eight mistakes and that should not have happened.

"We took the lead but couldn't win the game. It is very regrettable."

Q: Why can't you hold on to leads?

"When our team takes the lead at around 20 points, our players always seem to make a series of silly mistakes and eventually lose the set. That kind of thing happened today and also in the past.

"Five or six points in a row, we make mistakes. But I don't think it's a lack of concentration. But to make four serve errors is not very good."

Oksana Guliyeva

"We took a lead but Netherlands' block was very strong so every time we spike they could block us. It wasn’t good for us because every time we attacked, we could not do anything.

"The second and third sets, we made mistakes. Things didn’t really go well for us. Netherlands defence was very good."

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