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After the game, "Sing the Motherland" sounded at the scene. Photo by Pu Yaolei (00:27)
After a day of rest, the Chinese women's volleyball team once again appeared in the Olympic qualification arena.
Against the Czech women's volleyball team on the evening of September 19, the Chinese women's volleyball team did not give the opponent a chance, won easily 3-0, and also won a wave of three consecutive victories.
The Chinese women's volleyball team easily won the Czech team.
In the two rounds that have ended, the Chinese women's volleyball team first defeated Ukraine 3-0, and then defeated Mexico 3-0, maintaining the record of winning all two games without losing a game, and made a good start in a total of 7 rounds of Olympic qualifying.
Sitting at the home of Ningbo Beilun, the team hopes to play steadily, as team member Wang Yuanyuan said after the last round of competition, "The teams that can enter the Olympic qualification round have their own characteristics and certain strengths." So we treat any team with the same importance and hope to get better and better with each game. ”
In this Olympic qualification tournament, there are a total of 8 teams in Group A, where the Chinese team is located, and after a single round-robin, the top two teams in the points ranking will receive a ticket to directly qualify for the Paris Olympic Games.
Coach Cai Bin lays out tactics on the sidelines.
Before the match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Czech women's volleyball team, the Serbian women's volleyball team with one more game had won all 3 games without losing a game, ranking first in the standings.
Compared with the previous two opponents of Ukraine and Mexico, the Czech women's volleyball team has a slightly higher world ranking, ranking 16th in the world.
In the first round, they went through 5 games and defeated the Dominican women's volleyball team 3-2; In the second round, they lost 3-0 to the Dutch women's volleyball team.
For the Chinese women's volleyball team, the opponent of the Czech women's volleyball team is also familiar - in the qualification match of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Czech women's volleyball team 3-0. Subsequently, in the 2022 Women's Volleyball World Championship, the two teams met again, and the Chinese team won 3-0 again.
This time they met again, and the Chinese women's volleyball coach Cai Bin put forward the expectation for the players - "adjust the mentality and fight one by one." ”
Wang Mengjie in the game.
In this match, the starting list of the Chinese women's volleyball team is - Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Li Yingying, Wang Yunbi, Gong Xiangyu, Diao Linyu, Wang Mengjie.
After the opening of the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team stopped the opponent with a wave of consecutive scores 11-6. After the timeout, the Chinese team continued to lead, with a clear advantage at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and soon took a 25-12 lead.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team continued its good blocking performance, and won the first point to block the net. As the game deepened, the weakness of the Czech team's lack of stability and easy mistakes was exposed again, and the Chinese women's volleyball team won 25-16.
In the third game, the Czech women's volleyball team fought hard and kept biting the score, but at the crucial moment, the Chinese women's volleyball team stabilized the situation and won 25-23.
As a result, the Chinese women's volleyball team has successfully won three consecutive victories since the start of the Olympic qualifying tournament. Next, the team will face the Canadian women's volleyball team on the evening of September 20.