The new Chinese women's volleyball team is about to be formed. For this brand new team, the first major problem that needs to be solved is the staffing, as far as the existing situation is concerned, the secondary attack, the second pass, the receiver and the free man have the old players left in the last cycle, only the main offensive position is Li Yingying, who is the player of the last cycle, so who will partner Li Yingying has become the key.
In the new generation of main attacks, Wu Mengjie, Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya are Li Yingying's main attacks in the diagonal, and the most mentioned candidates by fans. Compared with Wu Mengjie, Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya and Li Yingying went out of the same door, and had the experience of cooperating with partners in the mother team, especially Wang Yizhu joined hands with Li Yingying and won the championship of the National Games. In addition, Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya were both one team ahead of Wu Mengjie and were selected for the national team.
After the end of the 2017 National Games, Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya were promoted to the Tianjin women's volleyball team, Wang Yizhu followed Li Yingying's pace and was selected into the Chinese women's volleyball training team, and Chen Boya joined the national training team after the 20-21 season league. On the other hand, Wu Mengjie, because the Jiangsu Youth Women's Volleyball Team needs its representative team to compete in the youth group of the National Games, it has not been on the first team until the 21-22 season.
Judging from the experience of the adult team and the selection of the national team, Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya should be the best candidates. However, in terms of potential and ability, Wu Mengjie may come later to replace the 2 Tianjin players and become the best candidate for Li Yingying's diagonal. So where are Wu Mengjie's advantages? The first is Wu Mengjie's age. Cai Bin once said that to give young players more opportunities to fight, Wu Mengjie is smaller than Chen Boya and Wang Yizhu, so this provides a prerequisite for Wu Mengjie to be reused.
The second is that Wu Mengjie's physical fitness is stronger than that of Chen Boya and Wang Yizhu. Wu Mengjie is 1 meter 89 tall, Wang Yizhu is 187cm tall, and Chen Boya is 190cm tall. The height difference between the three is not large, but the bouncing ability of the two sides is very different, compared with the three, Wu Mengjie's 327cm running height is the highest, which also shows that her bouncing ability is very outstanding. Although Wu Mengjie is thinner, her physical fitness is not large, which is also a major advantage for her.
In addition, the most important point is that Wu Mengjie is more flexible on the field than other players. In the league, we can often see Wu Mengjie running tactical ball in the fourth position, and the former women's volleyball team received Zhang Lei repeatedly praised her for this feature when explaining the game and reviewing the game. Zhang Lei said that Wu Mengjie's running in front of the net and moving within a meter line were extremely threatening. Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya are still lacking in this regard compared to Wu Mengjie, especially Wang Yizhu's movement.
The reason why Wu Mengjie can be so flexible has a lot to do with the fact that she has played a secondary attack. The advantage of playing a secondary attack has also been reflected in the end block network. Wu Mengjie's end net is similar to that of her sister Zhang Changning, and her grasp of the starting time and the control of the hand shape are very good. It can be said that the potential displayed by Wu Mengjie is far more than Wang Yizhu and Chen Boya, which is the best choice for Li Yingying's diagonal. For more exciting content, come and follow Volleyball GoldenEye