Head-to-head · Argentina and Bulgaria will meet for the 17th and 18th time in the World League.
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Bulgaria won the first eight and the last five meetings with Argentina
in the competition. Argentina won the three matches in between.
· Bulgaria won all of their World League meetings that went to five sets (4 matches).
· Argentina won their meeting at the London 2012 Olympic Games (3-1) in the group phase.
Argentina·
Argentina are coming of a straight set win against Cuba. They are still
waiting for their first back-to-back victories in 2015.
· Argentina
have won three of their last four matches against European opponents,
beating Germany twice and France once before losing against France (all
in 2014).
· Argentina have won only two of their last 17 World League
matches in which they lost the first set. Opponents Bulgaria have won
three of their last four matches in which they lost the first set.
Bulgaria·
Bulgaria's four-match winning streak ended last weekend as they lost
their second match against Canada 3-1. They can lose consecutive matches
for the first time this season.
· This will be their first World
League match against a team from South America since 2013 when they lost
the semifinal 3-1 against Brazil.
· Coming into the weekend,
Bulgaria have a winning percentage of 56.9% in the World League (246
matches, 140 wins), over 20 percentage points more than opponents
Argentina (34.9%, 209 matches, 73 wins).
· Despite having played only
two matches so far, Vladimir Nikolov has scored 45 points for Bulgaria,
third-most of the team's players behind Teodor Todorov (52) and Todor
Skrimov (47) who have both played six matches.