USA set for Italian match-up

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Defending champions the United States will meet Italy in the quarter-finals of the men's Olympic volleyball competition.

Alan Knipe's men wrapped their round-robin campaign up with a 3-0 win against Tunisia today to top Pool B, while Italy finished fourth in A.
Bulgaria topped their pool after winning a straight shoot-out with Italy today and will face Germany - 3-0 losers to Brazil, although they did rest star man Gyorgy Grozer.
Poland were runners-up to Bulgaria despite losing to Australia this morning [Monday] and will meet Russia, while Brazil and Argentina will also square up.
Australia, Great Britain, Serbia and Tunisia are the four sides to make an early exit.
Russia's Maxim Mikhaylov ended the group stage as the leading scorer with 93 points, just two more than Australia's Thomas Edgar, while Dami Bakare was Great Britain's best with 46.
Germany's Markus Steurwald was rated as the competition's best libero - Britain's Dan Hunter was a credible fourth - while Russia's 6ft 8in Marko Padrascanin returned a top-scoring 81 blocks.