The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1:3 to the Canadian women's volleyball team in the third round of the World Women's Volleyball League. The loss of this game is also a wake-up call for the Chinese women's volleyball team, the journey of the World Women's Volleyball League will not be particularly smooth, our opponent in the next game will be the Serbian women's volleyball team, the two-time world champion Serbian women's volleyball team, and the same as facing the Canadian women's volleyball team, we also lost to this opponent at home in last year's Olympic direct match, so for the Chinese women's volleyball team, we need to deal with this game well to avoid consecutive defeats. Relatively speaking, in this game of our Serbian women's volleyball team, I think there are still three major disadvantages, or three major problems to overcome.
The first is physical fitness, the Chinese women's volleyball team ended the match with the Canadian team at 7 o'clock in the morning Beijing time, and at one o'clock in the morning tomorrow. The Chinese women's volleyball team is about to usher in the final battle of the Brazilian station with the Serbian women's volleyball team. We had a total of 18 hours of rest, and during those 18 hours, we had to get some sleep, get back to the rest from the field, and have a meal, which took up a lot of time. Therefore, the Chinese women's volleyball team does not have much time to train and prepare, which is more troublesome.
The second point is the mentality, for the Serbian women's volleyball team, they sent all substitutes to play this time, so if they play the Chinese women's volleyball team, they are weak and strong, it doesn't matter if they win or lose, as long as they can play well, let the coaching staff see their highlights. Trying to squeeze into the Olympic squad is enough. But for the Chinese women's volleyball team, we obviously can't afford to lose, because we are facing the Serbian second team, if the main lineup to beat the opponent's second team lineup, you can imagine how great the pressure of public opinion we will face after the game.
Therefore, for Cai Bin and the athletes of the Chinese women's volleyball team, although we are facing a weak Serbian women's volleyball team, and our strength is not as good as ours, our psychological pressure is much greater than that of our opponents.
The third problem is to test the tactics and employment of personnel. What will our starting line-up change for this game? Wu Mengjie's performance in the game against the United States team was relatively bad, with 0 points in the whole game, the game against the Canadian team still kept her in the starter, her performance in this game was better than that of the American team, and there were some points in the attack, but on the whole, it seemed to be a certain distance from the starter. For example, in this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team has never been able to solve the problem of one pass, the problem of defense, which is the result of Wu Mengjie as the starter, and at the same time, this game was also replaced by Zhang Changning, which had a certain effect at first, but after all, it has been away from the field for a long time, and the overall effect is not good. So whether you use Wang Yunlu in this game or not.
For us, there is another hole card, or our last fig leaf, which is Zhu Ting. If Zhu Ting can play her form in the league last season, maybe our passing problems and defensive problems can be effectively solved, including her certain offensive ability, which can also relieve the scoring pressure on Li Yingying. But this is our ideal result, if even Zhu Ting's last hole card fails, and she can't play a role after she comes, the prospects of the Chinese women's volleyball team for the Olympics may not be optimistic.