Introduction: Match analysis is crucial to achieve a good performance in volleyball (Joao et al., 2010). The analysis of athletes different skills will provide important information about opponents weaknesses, allowing the selection of more appropriate strategies to overrides them winning the game. The aim of this study was to search for the skills that most contribute to the result (win or lose) in the Side-out or complex I context (reception, setting and attack), in high level volleyball players. Methods: A total of 74 games on the 293 sets of Volleyball World Championship Men 2010 in Italy were analysed, recording different skills in side-out. Data analysis was performed by Data Volley software. Discriminant function analysis (DA) was used in order to identify the skills that most contribute to establish the maximum difference between wins and losses results. We considered as relevant to the interpretation of the linear composites the | SC | . 0.30. The significance level was set at 5%. The calculation of the results was performed by SPSS version 17.0. Results: Our results pointed out that the attack point (SC = 0.42), the excellent reception (SC = 0.35) and the attack error (SC = -0.30) contribute to the discrimination between defeat and victory, in the context of side out in volleyball game. Discussion: The present study revealed possible predictors of success in a side-out situation: the excellent reception and attack point. Furthermore, the variable possibly associated with the failure, seems to be the attack error. In this sense, volleyball teams should maintain consistency in the side.out through an excellent reception and efficacy in attack, and prevent the attack of the opposing team, keeping an efficient block. Together, these results suggest that more importance should be taken in training situations to reception and attack skills in order to improve performance in competition, especially in side-out.
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