The 2022 World Men's Volleyball League in Poland continues on July 9. In the Baltic city of Gdansk, the Chinese team won three consecutive sets in the first set and defeated the Bulgarian team, which was also at the bottom of the standings, not only successfully ending a four-game losing streak and winning a rare victory, but also achieving our goal of earning points. What is even more valuable is that the whole team returns to normal in the starting line, of course, this has the factor that the opponent is not strong, but we play our own level, which is the key to winning the game.
First of all, Bulgaria is no longer a strong team, even if they have the height and strength of the European team logo, but in terms of technical comprehensiveness and offensive characteristics, Bulgaria is not a comprehensive and super offensive team. At the same time, their first-pass system is not as solid as that of the high-level team. However, although the Bulgarian team's world ranking is not high, the World League has not achieved too bright results. But like the Chinese men's volleyball team, as the two teams that are relegated to the world league this year, Bulgaria obviously hopes to exercise its rising star by winning the game. For the Chinese men's volleyball team, such an opponent is also the best to use to practice.
The Bulgarian team's serve did not rush out, and it can be seen that the players' serves are not very good. This makes our one-pass pressure suddenly reduced. In this game, Yu Yaochen greatly activated the offensive firepower of the third position, whether it was Peng Shikun's short and flat high point of three meters and twenty or thirty at every turn, or Li Yongzhen's extremely fast hand line in the third position, all of which brought great pressure to the Bulgarian team's blocking. The front row of the men's volleyball players is first concentrated in the third position and then moved to both sides according to the opponent's second pass. The attack of our two side-attackers was quite threatening, so that the Bulgarian team's net did not dare to move to both sides too early, which made our side attack have more line options. However, even if Zhang Guanhua played poorly in this game and was replaced by Wang Jingyi, it did not affect the offensive efficiency of our right wing too much.
Zhang Jingyin is still the core player of the Chinese team in terms of passing and attacking in this game. Many balls are often successfully completed. After the defeat in the first set, the Chinese team basically played its true level in the last three innings. Moreover, the serve in this game was the best performance in these games. Yu Yuantai's jumping hair finally found a feeling in this ball, and Peng Shikun and Zhang Jingyin's jumping power was significantly more than the previous two games. Lee Wing Chun significantly added strength to the serve, jumping the ball to send out a side attack level. Even though we made more mistakes than our opponents, the effect of the spelling serve was obvious. For the men's volleyball game, not fighting the serve is basically equivalent to giving victory to each other. In the two games against the Netherlands and Poland, we did not dare to fight in the starting line, and we were suppressed by the opponent, and there was basically no chance of turning the tables.
In this game, the Chinese team's pass was not greatly impacted, and multi-point blossoming obviously became a major factor in winning. Zhang Jingyin 18 points, Wang Jingyi 15 points, Peng Shikun 14 points, Li Yongzhen 13 points, Yu Yuantai 10 points, Yu Yaochen 4 points, Zhang Guanhua 3 points. Throughout the game we slammed the ball 62-55, served 7-3, blocked 8-7 and conceded 26-24. So, once the active offensive link is activated, victory follows. Even if Li Yongzhen only had half a round of defense in the back row as a secondary attacker, it did not prevent him from being able to score a point in the back row of the first position. The game is like this, you dare to fight, it is possible to suppress the opponent, you do not fight, then you can only be killed by the opponent. But if we can have such confidence and hard work against the Netherlands and Poland, the scene may be another performance.
However, fortunately, the growth of the Chinese men's volleyball team is still real. I hope that our players can play better and better, the price of growth we have paid, the harvest is inevitable.