Netherlands 🇳🇱 vs. Cuba 🇨🇺 - Highlights _ Week 2 _ Men s VNL 2025

And it is Cuba in red on the left-hand side serving against the Netherlands in the white shirts blue shorts on the right-hand side. It's the first swing coming in off the touch from Michael Aiyee but it's Cuba that take the first point. Shelby goes down to five seconds. Back out with the serve down the line to Gutierrez. Oh a little show voting from Gutierrez and big block coming in. Cuba down by one six seven. Aiyee big hands and this time it is options here for the Netherlands through the middle it goes. Good pressure serve Gutierrez takes that beautifully well lands on the setter's head. Burkhart has options. Platt calling for a double touch not to be given. Oh what a swing that is. Straight back up into the play. Look where he lands. He is taking up so much space. Every muscle in his body is being used to hit that ball of power. Experienced. Maso. That's an interesting battle as well. Netherlands are getting in their head this first set. This is in to replace Maso the opposite position. We're in the number 14. Gomez high on two. They'll just say all right I'll do it myself. I'll go get our own attack. Gutierrez unloads a huge serve that turns into an overpass. Chance here and the experience of Alonso. It's about to serve. Yant on two again. Touch team doing a better job of closing these points out. Nantes takes a sing out the serve. Fake set. Oh lovely work. High toss forward. Lovely take. Great play for the Netherlands. They take the first set. 25-21. A little blocker. Cooley and Carmely. Trist into the middle of the court. Take that. And then David Field puts it away beautifully through the middle. That's a big serve. Right on the head there it goes to Gomez. Oh Yant looked like he was cycling almost like a long jump. How far he comes in. In a pretty low set for Yant that forces him to speed up his entire approach and swing process. Yant back to serve. It's an overpass. Gomez. Gutierrez on the angle. Yant looking confident with his serves. It's gonna go the angle here. No way through. That was asking a lot there. Serving at this league is a lot like just baseball. It's a strike or a home run. It's just that intense. Look out. Has to work hard to get this. Bends that back to get the set all the way across to Ayi. But it's another block that lands in the middle of the court. Yant walking in once again. But it goes to Maso. Lovely touch. High clock but it goes into the referee's hand before Keeming can get to it. Good pressure serve down the line. They come straight back. Nice side out from the Dutch team. Gutierrez. This one's gonna be tight. Yant has a free swing. Keeming being backcourt. Can't do anything about it. And they should be. You can't just give Marlon Yant a present. Ayi coming on. Brilliant serve. It's a fantastic take as well. And put away first time from Cuba. They take the set 25-18. But now they're just doing what they usually do, which is play against your opponent. Don't play down. Stanislava Simic calls play here for set three. And Marlon Yant starts off with a blistering serve. Gomez has options. Even a set like that looks like it's been way too low. It's still made by Fiel. Shortest serve. Trying to take Maso out the game. Little look through the net there by Fiel. Game's top point scorer on the service line. Copes. Gutierrez digs that one out. Nice. It gets straight back in and punches that ball on the angle. And the end on the angle. Gutierrez wants it back, but he doesn't get the chance because it's taken away from him. Not quite found it yet in this third set. Has been a little bit stop-starty for them. Maso. Lovely down the line. Yant on the ball. He wants it back. He gets it back. Look out. Takes one. Five points. Excuse me. Maso has eight. And Alonso. Maso out. Oh. That's somehow come over from Yant. And in the end, the ball has just been fed up. Nezha's trying to catch. Keep her out. But they were right on the net. Lovely take. Massive block. Alonso goes back to serve. Back wants it. It goes to the opposite. Right down the line. Into the corner. Chemez again. Good aggression on the serve. Forces the overpass. Garcia in. And on the angle it comes to Maso. Now this time switches over and Yant is blocked. 20-23. Gutierrez. A big block. They're there. They're back within two points now. And it's an ace serve to take the third set. 25-21. Here we see the replay. That last serve from Maso. Right down the line. Changes for Cuba. Brilliant ball in from Garcia. That's all the Libro. 15 points for Maso. Interesting if we see more movement of the ball and change of shapes of shots coming in from the Netherlands here in set four. As Downfield does what he does best. Experience here. Gutierrez. It's up. Free ball. Alonso shaping up through the middle. He gets it. A little bit of use of the net. That's a grounded point for Cuba. Martinez short on Maso. Back out to Gutierrez. Power tip. Good touch. One-handed, one-footed takeoff. It's almost like a backcourt slide. The only slide looking hits we have seen this week. Watch Metz chase this ball. Libro the blue shirt. Ready to receive this serve from Maso. Oh it's in on the line. Joel Banks points down as well. Lovely angle. To get this fire in them the entire match. Yant one-on-one. Off the net. Still up. Still up. Cuba come again with Yant. Oh that's gone hard. Instead of hitting him down on it he hit forward to it. Made it into this weird float serve. He's the target of the serve receiving. Yant wants it back on the pipe. Every time he passes the ball he always gets it back on that pipe attack. Side out needed for the Netherlands. You know where it's going to go and it's always in. Well Cuba thought it was out. There's no in-out challenge on the line as we see that ball landing. Right smack on the line. He's had a fantastic career. He's not finished yet. Good hustle. It is going to be a free ball coming in for Cuba. They've got loads of options. Here's the pipe. It's not grounded. Gomez bringing in Yant who switched it around and turns it on his head for match point. Maso deep. Off the hands. Setter out. Oh it's a massive block but it's a foot fault. 17 points to his game. Match point Cuba. Chance here. Gutierrez off the hands and out of play. Cuba have saved set points against them and they take the game with the fourth set finishing off at 30-28.