Li Yingying's 30 points alone is not enough Where did the Chinese women's volleyball team lose to Canada?
The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2-3 to Canada in the fourth round of the Paris Olympic Qualification Tournament. The upset of the Chinese team not only made Canada once again a "giant killer", but also disrupted the qualification situation of Group A of the Austrian Championship. Despite the setbacks in the five games of this battle, the fighting spirit of the women's volleyball girls is still worthy of recognition. China's losses in both the first and fifth innings were superior, exposing flaws in the team's handling of the details of the chance ball, the distribution of key balls and the strategizing of head coach Cai Bin.
In the advantageous situation, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Canada for the second time, and failed to seize the loophole of the other side's pass to fully exert pressure
The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2-3 to Canada in the fourth round of the Olympic Championship. This is the second defeat to an opponent in the historic first defeat to Canada in the 2021 World League preliminary round, and the first defeat in three meetings with the Paris cycle. Judging from the performance of the two teams in this Olympic Championship and the scene of today's match, the result of the 2-3 defeat of the Chinese team was surprising. Although we faced stubborn resistance from Canada, we did not fall behind, and the losing three-game game was advantageous in two of the three innings. If the details could have been slightly better, it would never have been this score.
In the first game of the China-Canada battle, the Chinese team not only won a three-point advantage many times, but also led 24-22 at the end of the game to win the game point. Unfortunately, the key point could not withstand Van Reich's strong attack and counterattack, giving Canada a glimmer of life, and finally Wang Yuanyuan's fast attack was blocked to give the winning score 26-28. In the tiebreaker, the Chinese team led 7-3 and was pulled to 7 draws by the card wheel, and after holding until 15 draws, one attack could not withstand it, and Li Yingying's counterattack was blocked 15-17, and finally lost 2-3.
The Canadian women's volleyball team has obvious loopholes in the first pass link. At the end of the fourth game, Li Yingying's serve broke the opponent's pass, and in the tiebreaker, China pressed Diao Linyu's serve round 4-0. Canada's two rounds exposed the team's passing problems, but unfortunately we were unable to suppress the opponent's momentum again with a serve in the second half of the most powerful tiebreaker.
On the offensive end, Li Yingying was difficult to cut 30 points alone, and Wang Yunwei collapsed a pass and was forced to top by the newcomer
China's 3-2 defeat to Canada exposed the problem of a single point of attack. Li Yingying alone scored 30 points and was still difficult to save, including 55 dunks and 25 shots, 8 errors and blocks, and the offensive double effect was 45.5% and 30.9% respectively. Although Li Yingying has worked hard and her strong attack efficiency is better than the opponent's attacker, Li Yingying still failed to resist when Canada was desperate to stop her in the key point competition.
Li Yingying's weak diagonal is a major hidden danger in the configuration of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In the battle with Canada, Wang Yunwei's weaknesses were fully exposed. Not only was the offensive end inefficient 16 dunks 4, but there were also continuous fluctuations in the pass she was good at, which directly led to her being replaced at the beginning of the third inning.
Coach Cai Bin has been very firm in the use of Wang Yunwei. She was replaced today not simply because of poor attack, but mainly because of a pass collapse, so that Cai Bin had to replace her with rookie Wu Mengjie. As a newcomer playing an international tournament of this intensity for the first time, Wu Mengjie's overall performance is worthy of recognition, and the offensive dares to shoot and the end block is also well controlled. It is a pity that in the case of fluctuations in the secondary attack attack and the blockage of Gong Xiangyu's breakthrough, blindly giving Wu Mengjie a "roof ball" hard burst, the requirements for newcomers are still too harsh.
Wu Mengjie's first time in the high-level competition of the national team, coach Cai Bin has no problem using her strengths, but when she moves to the back row, the coach's employment strategy is debatable. Wu Mengjie herself is a player who is stronger in attack than defense, and she is playing in the World Series for the first time, and it is better to use other players to replace her in the back row. Even if Wang Yunbi is broken and can no longer adapt to the game, we still have a second free man Ni Xuan to use. In the use of double free man tactics, Cai Bin can be more daring.
Key points, distribution, second pass and attacker, all need to summarize Canada's headwind reversal super level play
China lost to Canada today, and the team's offensive organization and offensive pass coordination all need to be improved, and both the second setter and the attacker are responsible. The final point of the tiebreaker is a typical example. The author thought that passing the ball to the No. 4 position at that time might be better than giving Li Yingying a back attack. At the end of the third inning, after China reached 23-24, it was Li Yingying's back-attack counterattack that was blocked to deliver the winning score. However, when encountering a similar situation in the tiebreaker, he still chose to break through with his back attack, and did not learn the lesson of the end of the third game.
From a tactical point of view, the biggest problem of the Chinese team is that the two wings of the offensive can not be effectively contained, and the offensive firepower is basically concentrated in the No. 3 and No. 4 positions, making Canada's targeted blocking more effective. Today Canada also has a super level of play, not only the resistance of the net port is shown, but also the relatively weak defense has an amazing performance. Canada is a team that is easy to "fight chicken blood", and after we mishandled a few chances, the morale of both sides was depleted, and it was too late to suppress the opponent.
After the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Canada, the qualification situation became less clear. But that's already the result, we have to learn to accept the loss, absorb the negative effects as soon as possible and prepare for the next game against the Netherlands!