After the Women's Volleyball World Championship, the national leagues will also start one after another. At this time, all world-class players have already been booked in advance by major clubs or are in contact. For example, Zhu Ting was still signed in advance by Italy's Scandic before the World Championships even if she has not played for more than a year, and Italy has already been famous for taking over Egnu, Brazil for Gabi, and Serbia for Boskovic.
What is puzzling is that Li Yingying, who was rumored to play at Turkish club Fenerbahce as early as a year ago, has not followed up now. Everyone inevitably asks: Is Li Yingying a world-class main attacker? Why aren't well-known clubs rushing to poach people? Over the years, guided by public opinion, everyone has particularly believed in data. Li Yingying is not a world-class main attacker, then let the data speak, the data will not lie, three important actual battles have given the answer.
In 2022, due to the absence of Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning, Li Yingying has become the first main attack of the Chinese women's volleyball team worthy of the name and has firmly established the position of the absolute main force. Li Yingying, who became the main force, also ushered in her foothold in the national team, that is, the World League and the World Championship. Objectively speaking, in these two competitions, Li Yingying's total score and offensive score ranked high in the world, the offensive success rate was maintained at more than 40%, and the offensive efficiency was also above 30%, so she was also the scoring champion in the national team and grew into an important player in the national team. This seems to be a bit of a prototype of a world-class main attack.
However, while we affirm Li Yingying's achievements in the national team, we should also see an undeniable fact, that is, the national team with Li Yingying as the core player has lost without exception when facing the main opponent. We lost to the Italian and Brazilian women's volleyball teams in the World Championship, and we continued to lose to the Italian and Brazilian women's volleyball teams in the World Championships. Especially the three actual battles with the Italian women's volleyball team made Li Yingying's shortcomings unreservedly displayed.
These three games are the key battles of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but Li Yingying's performance in these three games is not in the state. In 2022, the first important match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Italian women's volleyball team was in the final of the World League of Eight into Four, where Li Yingying scored 16 points, but mistakes sent as many as 11 points, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost; The second game was in the competition for the top place in the group stage of the World Championship, Li Yingying scored 8 points, but with 5 mistakes, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost; The third game was in the final of the World Championship with eight goals and four goals, Li Yingying scored 14 points, but there were still four mistakes, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost. In these games, Li Yingying's overall average efficiency is less than 15%.
These real data cover Li Yingying's various shortcomings: impatience when encountering strong teams, obvious increase in mistakes, and weak breakthrough ability; The offense and defense move slowly, cannot keep up with the opponent's attack, and cannot shake off the opponent's defense; Poor physical strength, maintaining less than three rounds of state under high-intensity matches. Obviously, compared with world-class players, Li Yingying's strong offensive ability is not as sharp as Egnu and Boskovich, and her defensive ability is not as flexible as Gabi's flashing and moving, which shows that Li Yingying is still some distance away from world-class players.
Li Yingying was a blockbuster in the league, creating too much imagination space for the majority of fans, which made everyone's expectations for her really higher. The growth of players requires a process, which requires everyone not to create an atmosphere of praise excessively, so that players can know themselves in an objective evaluation. In this way, it will help players correct their shortcomings and keep improving.