The 2023 VNL Women's World Volleyball League has finished its second week of competition, and in the last match played in Hong Kong, China, the Chinese women's volleyball team playing at home was reversed by the Italian women's volleyball team with a 2:1 lead. This is also the second defeat suffered by the Chinese women's volleyball team this year, after the team lost 0:3 to the Polish women's volleyball team.
On June 18, the results of all competitions were summarized as follows:
Brasilia Station
(1) The United States women's volleyball team defeated the Brazilian women's volleyball team 3-0, the score was: 25-22/25-19/25-22. The result of this game is still relatively unexpected, Brazil playing at home is defeated by the semi-main fighting United States, it seems that the bench depth of the US women's volleyball team is still thick and full of talent.
(2) Croatia's 3-0 victory over Thailand for their second win was 25-17/25-21/25-20, which was also surprising that Croatia, who had previously won a hard-to-win victory, was able to beat Thailand.
(3) The German women's volleyball team defeated the South Korean women's volleyball team 3-1, the score was: 25-19/25-17/25-27/25-12. The German women's volleyball team is dominated by young players, but the performance is very good, and the newcomers are on the rise.
Hong Kong Station
(1) Turkey beat Dominica 3-1, scoreline: 25-23/25-19/23-25/25-20.
(2) Netherlands beat Bulgaria 3-0, scoreline: 26-24/25-17/25-17.
(3) The Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the Italian women's volleyball team 2-3, the score was: 25-23/23-25/25-18/22-25/12-15.
The loss of the Chinese women's volleyball team to the Italian women's volleyball team still exposed a lot of problems. First of all, in terms of the lineup, only Serra and Danesi are the main players of the team in this Italian station, and the rest are the second team or even young players playing, while the Chinese women's volleyball team is basically the strongest team except for Zhu Ting's absence, but it still lost.
The bench depth of the Chinese women's volleyball team is not good, there are no rotation players, or even if there are players such as Du Qingqing on the bench, head coach Cai Bin does not dare to replace, Wang Yunbi's attack and a pass are all affected, especially on the offensive end, there is no firepower to speak of, but Cai Bin did not give Du Qingqing and others the opportunity to play.
The Chinese women's volleyball team basically fixed the starting lineup, and even what tactics and rounds are mechanical, and the coaching staff's on-the-spot adaptability and flexibility are too poor, and they have not made enough preparation, which Cai Bin and the coaching staff need to strengthen.
In terms of players, in addition to Li Yingying, Gong Xiangyu and Wang Mengjie, the substitute libero Ni Weiwei also played steadily, and the rest of the players were unqualified in this match against Italy.
Second setter Diao Linyu performed very well in the first few games, but in the face of Poland and Italy, the stability is too poor, as the captain Yuan Xinyue, the offensive end is okay, but the blocking ability is too poor, the hand shape is not good, easy to be borrowed by the opponent, and the destructive blocking is most, less effective support.
In terms of technical statistics, the Chinese women's volleyball team Li Yingying scored 24 points, 45 deducted 20, Gong Xiangyu scored 17 points, 37 deducted 13, Yuan Xinyue 15 points, 22 deducted 13, Wang Yuanyuan 12 points, 17 deducted 10. Italian women's volleyball team S-Nvacale 15 points, Sheila 15 points, De Grady 14 points, Danesi and Mazzaro 10 points each.
In Hong Kong, the Chinese women's volleyball team won two wins and two losses, and in the first stop in Nagoya, Japan, the Chinese women's volleyball team won all four games, and next, the team will go to South Korea to face a strong opponent, and the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team is worth paying attention to.
From June 28 to July 2, the Chinese women's volleyball team will play the final week of the tournament in Suwon, South Korea, and the Chinese team will play against the following schedule:
June 28, 18:00: China vs Serbia
30 June, 18:00: China vs Dominica
01 July 13:00: China vs South Korea
July 02, 16:30: China vs USA
In the last game, the main players of Serbia, the United States and other teams will return one after another to prepare for the finals, what kind of performance can the Chinese women's volleyball team show in the third week, at the same time, whether the coaching staff and Cai Bin can clear the doubts of fans, in the face of the real strong team, how to line up the troops, how to build tactics, how to adapt and adjust, need to be tested.
According to the current instability of the Chinese women's volleyball team, in the next September Paris Olympic qualification match, as well as the Hangzhou Asian Games, Zhu Ting will be called back to the team 100%, otherwise Li Yingying's diagonal position is too weak. In addition, I hope that another setter Yao Di can also return, after all, Diao Linyu as the main setter, its stability is really average, and sometimes even inferior to Yao Di.
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