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On the evening of January 1, the third game of the semifinals between the Jiangsu women's volleyball team and the Shanghai women's volleyball team began, the Jiangsu women's volleyball team cleanly defeated the Shanghai women's volleyball team with a score of 3-0 to reach the final, and the two teams will also meet in the women's volleyball final for the second consecutive year, and the first competition between the two sides will be launched at 19:30 on the evening of January 4. In the history of the women's volleyball league, the two teams of Tianjin and Suzhou have twice competed in the championship and runner-up finals: in the 2015-2016 season, the Tianjin women's volleyball team won the championship with an aggregate score of 3-2 in the five best-of-three competitions; in the 2020-2021 season, Tianjin team won the championship with an aggregate score of 2-1 in the three-game two-win competition.
The performance of the core players in their respective teams is the key, and as the "scoring machine" of the Tianjin women's volleyball team, how Vargas will play has a relatively large impact on the trend of the game. It is worth mentioning that in the two-legged semi-final with the Liaoning women's volleyball team, Vargas, nicknamed "Xiaomei", does not seem to be as powerful as in the previous round-robin tournament, and as the opponent becomes stronger and stronger, Xiaomei is now actively changing and trying to release his offensive firepower again.
From 21 points in the first leg to 25 points in the second leg, and two semi-finals, Vargas was the top scorer in the game without suspense. However, despite this, it is still necessary to see that the Liaoning team's blocking against Xiaomei has been significantly improved compared to the opponents in the previous round-robin tournament. In the two games, Xiaomei was directly blocked 7 times, and the opponent's highly targeted blocking deployment also forced her to have 5 slam mistakes.
Vargas
Tianjin Bohai Bank women's volleyball team
In the back games I have to jump a little higher than I do now, and raise the offensive point a little higher, so that if I go to the ball, I can bypass the opposing netsman.
Yao Di
Long women's volleyball team of Tianjin Tianjin Bohai Bank
I think Xiaomei's state is better, but in the face of a player like Hu Mingyuan who is more experienced in blocking the net, the jump time is relatively late, maybe Xiaomei can't see her hand, she is a little habitual to play down, so she stopped a lot of balls. I think this is also that we should communicate with her more later, and then hope that her high point can be played.
Wang Baoquan
Head coach of the women's volleyball team of Tianjin Bohai Bank
I feel that our foreign aid in the previous game is basically a weak team, and now after the game enters the final four, the opponent is much stronger than the group stage from the whole online height, the whole technology. Therefore, it feels normal for Vargas to be stopped, but the key is that she has to stabilize her mentality and play her own things.
In addition to the smash, Vargas's powerful jump serve was also slightly muted in the semi-finals. In the two games, her direct serve score was only 2 points, and direct mistakes sent 5 points, such a negative efficiency is obviously not the data that Xiaomei can accept in her proud serve. Liaoning's success rate of two draws and one pass reached 53%, and a large part of this figure stemmed from their successful start for Xiaomei's serve.
I still care more about my first semi-final serve, which was a bit more wrong and didn't send out power, because our semi-final opponent Liaoning is also a relatively strong team, and it is not so easy to disrupt the rhythm of their pass. So, I'll serve with more force in the back games.
The small encounter with resistance in the semi-finals made Vargas have a fuller understanding and preparation for the hardships and difficulties of the upcoming final. The final showdown is just around the corner, and Xiaomei is looking forward to a championship to draw a satisfactory end to her first trip to China.
My goal in the final is, of course, to win, and on the basis of winning, if I can play a higher offensive success rate, it would be very good.