Head-to-Head· The World League winners of the last two editions will meet in this match: United States (2014) and Russia (2013).
· They have met 24 times before in the competition with United States winning on nine occasions and Russia (incl. CIS and URS) the other 15 encounters.
· In 2014, these teams were also drawn in Pool B. United States won three of their four meetings that campaign (3-2, 3-0, 3-2). Russia won the last in straight sets.
· Maxwell Holt (USA) plays in Russia at Dinamo Moscow, David Lee (USA) at Lokomotiv Nobosibirsk and Matthew Anderson (USA) at Zenit Kazan.
United States· United States have won their opening two matches of their 2015 World League campaign. In 2014, they won their first seven matches.
· They have won their last five World League matches – including the 2014 final - losing only four sets and never more than one per match.
· Their second match of the weekend will be United States' 250th in the competition. Their record coming into this weekend: W131-L117, 487 sets won and 461 sets lost.
· United States have won their last four World League matches played in Long Beach, California. Two of these matches were against Russia.
Russia· If Russia suffer two defeats against United States they will lose five consecutive World League matches (including last match of 2014) for the first time since a 10-match losing streak in 1997.
· Last season, their already suffered a four-match losing streak.
· Russia have lost five of their last six five-setters, including two against United States.
· These will be their seventh and eighth consecutive World League away matches, since hosting United States in Kaliningrad in June 2014.