The 2024 World League in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has concluded a battle for Olympic qualification. Last year's Olympic silver medallist, Brazil, beat Canada 3-1 at home to not only get the season off to a flying start, but also to extend their world points lead 26-24, 23-25, 26-24, 25-12.
With both teams failing to qualify for the Olympic Qualification Tournament and being ranked high in the world, both teams have a chance to qualify for the Olympics by virtue of their world rankings, so both teams fielded their main players. The Brazilian women's volleyball team is led by Anna, Gabi and Markris, while Canada is co-started by Gray and Van Rijk.
In the first three games, the two sides played extremely fiercely, the scores rose alternately, and each game was decided after 20 points, and the first and third games were even extended points. In the fourth game, the Brazilian women's volleyball team showed the championship background, stabilized the mentality, seized the opportunity of Canada's ups and downs in the first half of the game, and won the whole game 25-12 after playing a wave of scoring.
In this game, the reason why the Brazilian women's volleyball team was able to win was related to their powerful blocking. According to statistics, Brazil scored a total of 15 points in the whole game, while Canada only scored 5 points, plus Brazil's own mistakes were 7 points less than Canada's, making up for the 2-point gap on the offensive end. In the 4th game, all the players of the Brazilian women's volleyball team scored points on the net, and Diana, the deputy attacker, directly got 5 blocks.
The smash efficiency of Brazil's three wide attackers is not high, Anna was blocked with 6 mistakes in 17 of 42 deductions, with a smash efficiency of 26.19%, Gabi was blocked with 4 mistakes in 11 of 34 deductions, with a smash efficiency of 20.59%, and Rosa Maria was blocked with 3 errors in 10 of 24 deductions, with a smash efficiency of 29.17%. Although the offensive efficiency of the side attack is generally below 30%, their secondary attack is sharp, Diana has 8 shots and 6 shots, and Kudis has 10 shots and 5 hits.
The Canadian women's volleyball team and Brazil in the first three games were tightly bitten, mainly relying on the excellent performance of the two heavy artillery. Gray was blocked in 21 of 49 shots and 6 turnovers, with a smash efficiency of 30.61%, and received 29 passes, with a team-high rate of 34.48%, and also contributed 1 block and 1 shot to score a game-high 23 points. Van Rijk scored 18 points on 16-of-49 shooting, 5 turnovers and 6 blocks, and Mitrovic had 8 points.
As far as the Canadian team and Brazil are concerned, this team still has strong strength, but the consistency is still lacking. The third opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Brazil is Canada, which was previously defeated 2-3 in the Olympic Championship, if you want to succeed in revenge this time, in addition to watching the attack of Gray and Van Rijk, you must also allow the opponent to play a good ball, and wait until the opposite side of the state declines, seize the opportunity to win the game.