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Head-to-head

• Poland have won each of their previous four European Championship matches against Spain.
• Their most recent European Championship encounter came in 2009, when Poland won in five sets in the second group stage. This was the first time Spain claimed a set against Poland in the European Championship.
• Poland could become the third team to win at least five European championship matches against Spain, after Germany (5, including as West Germany) and Serbia (5, including predecessors).
• Spain are already the opponents Poland have played most European Championship matches against without ever losing (4).

Poland

• Two-time reigning world champions Poland claimed eight podium finishes in the European championships - G1-S5-B2.
• After winning the European title in 2009, Poland finished in third (2011), ninth (2013), fifth (2015) and 10th place (2017).
• Poland have won each of their last four matches in straight sets, after winning their opening match of this year's European Championship 3-1 against Estonia. Poland could become the second country to claim five successive straight-set victories in the European Championship this century, after Russia in 2017.
• The last team to claim the European title with a maximum of one lost set was Netherlands in 1997. Only Yugoslavia avoided a straight-set defeat against Holland that campaign (3-1 loss in the final).
• Wilfredo Leon Venero (40%) had the third-best block efficiency in this year's group stage, behind Italy's Davide Candellaro (50%) and France's Stephen Boyer (44%).

Spain

• Spain won the European title in 2007, but finished in ninth (2009) and 16th place (2017) in their two participations since.
• Spain won their final two group stage matches 3-2 against Austria and 3-1 against Germany, ending an nine-match losing run in the competition.
• Spain can win more than two matches in a single European Championship for the third time, after 2005 (3) and 2007 (8).
• Andres Jesus Villena was Spain's top scorer in the group stage on 90 points, almost 40 points more than their next most prolific scorer (Juan Manuel Gonzalez, 51).
• Villena (90) scored the most points among all players in pool B in this year's European Championship.