On May 14, Beijing time, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League ushered in the opening match, the two European teams, the Dutch women's volleyball team against the Bulgarian women's volleyball team, regardless of world ranking or strength, the Dutch team is stronger, and the results obtained are better, the Rio Olympics is their peak, and they have the best results in those years, and the Olympic Games and the World Championships have advanced to the semifinals.
There are signs of recovery in the past two years, last year's Olympic qualifying tournament still defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team, and they are currently ranked tenth in the world, and the quota for advancing to the Paris Olympics is still relatively large, but they can't lose to teams ranked lower than themselves, and they have to try to win one or two strong teams. Bulgaria is not a strong team, not competitive enough, and not distinctive enough.
The starters of both teams
Bulgaria
Main attackers: Yordanova, Paskova
Secondary attack: Krivohiska, B Sekova
Answer: Dudova
Setter: Balakova
Free man: Pashkuleva
Netherlands
Main attackers: Buigis, Jasper
Secondary attack: Lohois, Baiyans
Answer: Prak
Setter: Van Allen
Free man: Kirsten
In the first game, the Netherlands did a better job in the opening blocking, successfully seized the counterattack, 6-3 lead, Bulgaria then first stabilized a pass, to ensure the score of an attack, and many times through the blocking of the counterattack, blocking Prak, chasing close to 9-8, but there was a small fluctuation, was the Netherlands 13-9 to open the score, Bulgaria's attack hit rate declined, there were many mistakes, there were a few touches, the Netherlands has opened the score 19-11, continue to open the score 23-13, the offense played very smoothly, the side attack and the secondary attack took turns to bomb, Playing a multi-point blossoming attack, Bulgaria made a whopping 11 turnovers in this game.
The second game started to play more stalemate, 4-4 draw, both sides of the attack are relatively stable, after many ties, the Dutch women's volleyball team through the serve to drive the blocking, 10-7 lead, the secondary attack played very fast, back fly and short draw are played, Bulgaria gradually chased the score to 12-12, you one point and I one point, until 19-19, Plac's attack is not ideal today, at the end of the game, Bulgaria's pass fluctuated, the Netherlands seized the counterattack, scored in a row, 25-20 and won another game.
In this game, Bulgaria's mistakes were reduced to 6, and the offense was still not as good as the Netherlands, 12-16, and the Dutch secondary attack Lohuis was in good shape, with 6 deductions and 6 hits.
In the third game, Bulgaria led 4-1, the offensive counterattack was very fierce, the fast high point attack, and was soon chased to 6-6 by the Netherlands, Bulgaria through a stable play, the rush serve was very successful, 12-8 lead the score, the Dutch team chased to 12-13, but unfortunately the counterattack did not hit, Bulgaria continued to maintain the lead 19-16, but was soon chased by the Netherlands to 19-19, Bulgaria was seriously stuck, a pass flew around, the offense could not be attacked, the attackers on both sides were sluggish, and the blocking was weak, The Netherlands scored seven points in a row to make it 23-19, and Jasper hit a flat to seal the win 25-22 and win their debut 3-0.
The Netherlands played well in this game, and they have been training hard to prepare for the Olympic Games. The gap between the serve and block is not big, the Netherlands has an advantage of 42-35 relative to the offense, and the service and blocking also lost to Bulgaria by 1 point each, and the mistakes are well controlled, and Bulgaria continues to make various mistakes, giving 23 points, close to a game.
Plack 12 points (34 shots, 9 shots, 0 turnovers, 4 blocks, 3 blocks), Lohois: 10 points, Bouygis: 10 points, Baiyans: 9 points, Jasper: 6 points, the offense is more scattered, and the secondary offense is more involved.
The Bulgarian women's volleyball team scored 11 points (22 deductions, 10 hits, 2 turnovers, 4 blocks, 1 shot, 28 passes, 1 turnover, and a pass completion rate of 43%).
The Chinese women's volleyball team is about to usher in the first opponent of the year, the South Korean women's volleyball team, defeating the opponent is the first purpose, and the normal play is to be able to win relatively easily.