In 12 days, the 2024 Women's Volleyball World League Brazil will be ignited, and the Chinese women's volleyball team will be ready to meet their first opponent, the South Korean team. It is reported that CCTV has issued a notice in advance that it will broadcast all the matches of the Chinese women's volleyball team in three stations, but due to the time difference, the game time of some sub-stations is in the middle of the night, and fans who like the Chinese women's volleyball team need to have a good alarm clock.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
May 15 04:30 China vs South Korea
May 17 04:30 China vs United States
May 18 04:30 China vs Canada
May 19 01:00 China vs Serbia
Now, the Chinese women's volleyball team in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province's 40-day closed training camp is coming to an end, and is waiting for the official announcement of the 14-member roster for the Brazilian station.
At present, although fans are actively cheering for the Chinese women's volleyball team, there are too many variables in competition, so the expectations for the first 4 games of the women's volleyball team are not optimistic.
First, Cai Bin's tactical layout has not seen anything new in the past two years, and the well-known "speed of light volleyball" style of play, from the 2022 World League to the present, has been well-known to countries around the world. Because this "quick change" tactic has high requirements for the stability of the first pass, once the first pass is washed out, the use of various tactics and the organization of the second pass will be overstretched.
This also allows countries to find a way to crack it, that is, to strengthen the attack power of the serve, and chase the two corners of Li Yingying and Gong Xiangyu of the Chinese team by vigorously jumping, even if our side attacker falls to the ground due to the serve, it cannot better provide firepower support. At the same time, by destroying the first pass, the scheduling of the second pass became very reluctant, and I think this is also the reason why Coach Cai Bin repeatedly emphasized that he should take the "six rounds of one pass".
The second is that the change in staffing does not change the medicine, especially the fresh blood has not kept up, and an excellent young man has not been cultivated for more than two years, so that the current "Seven Fairies" lineup has been thoroughly explored by the teams, and there is nothing new, and it is easy to deal with. Although there is an additional Zhang Changning, whether his recovery has achieved the expected effect can only be seen on the battlefield.
As for Wang Yunrui's offense, Diao Linyu is prone to convulsions as soon as he plays a strong team and key games, Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan's blocking ability is insufficient, and whether Wu Mengjie, Wang Yizhu, and Zhuang Yushan can stand up at a critical moment is unknown. These have put the Chinese women's volleyball team under great pressure.
The third is the lack of Zhu Ting's first game, which makes the Chinese team's attack power plummet. In this way, the Chinese women's volleyball team almost completely relied on Li Yingying in the adjustment of the strong attack, and returned to the situation of being alone in the past, which put forward higher requirements for Li Yingying's performance. The year before last, Cai Bin led the team to play against the South Korean team in the World Women's Volleyball League, but the attack was blocked due to the heavy use of Jin Ye, and in the end, it was Li Yingying's strong attack to win the game and almost capsize.
Therefore, the challenges faced by the Chinese team in the four games in Brazil should not be underestimated, although the United States and Serbia did not send the strongest teams, their depth of second and third tier teams is still not to be underestimated.
Although the future is unknown, I still want to send blessings to the Chinese women's volleyball team, I wish you a successful start, good news, come on!