On May 17, Beijing time, the third match day of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League, the Italian women's volleyball team, which lost in the first round, played against Germany. Under the leadership of Antropova, the Italian women's volleyball team defeated the German women's volleyball team 3-1 and won the first victory.
In the first two games of the game, Italy had a clear advantage, playing two 25-16 to easily take a 2-0 lead. In the first half of the third game, the two teams tightened the score, and the German women's volleyball team made a force in the second half and pulled back a game 25-21. The Italian women's volleyball team began to lose its touch from the second half of the third game, and the offensive and defensive organization of the whole team was very chaotic, falling behind 6-13 in the game, and the game looked like it was going to a tiebreaker.
The German women's volleyball team maintained a stable offensive efficiency and led 16-10 in the game. Since then, Italy has continued to chase points, and the German women's volleyball team has used up two pauses in a short period of time and kept making substitutions, but the Italian women's volleyball team has been very good at blocking the net, completely suppressing the German women's volleyball team in attack and defense, and overtaking 18-17. At the critical moment, the German women's volleyball team also blocked the net and quickly stopped the decline, scoring 4 points in a row and leading 21-18.
Subsequently, Antropova stepped forward again, she attacked and defended well, blocked the net well, and almost single-handedly saved the Italian women's volleyball team, in the case of falling behind 18-21, Italy played a 7-1 attack wave, won the fourth game 25-22, defeated Germany 3-1, and won the first victory.
The fourth game was a shocking comeback for Italy, who had fallen behind 6-13, 10-16 and 18-21, but the whole team was united, coupled with Antropova's superb performance with 24 points, and several substitutions by coach Velasco were effective. After winning this game, Italy, as the fierce rival of the Chinese women's volleyball team, increased by 2.59 points, but because the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the United States women's volleyball team, the Italian women's volleyball team is currently ranked seventh.
The details of Matchday 3 are:
Turkey: Italy 3-1 Germany, Japan 3-0 Bulgaria, Turkey 3-1 Netherlands
Brazil: Brazil 3-0 South Korea, China 3-1 United States, Canada 3-0 Dominica
In the strong dialogue, the Chinese women's volleyball team reversed the American women's volleyball team 3-1, which made the American women's volleyball team fall to third place in the world. Canada's 3-0 win over Dominica was a big upset on this match day. The others were all won by strong teams, Italy and Turkey both won their first victories, and Japan, Brazil and the Chinese women's volleyball team won two in a row. Brazil will usher in two key battles next, the first is China vs. Canada, followed by the United States vs. Brazil, whether the United States can stop the decline and give the Brazilian women's volleyball team the first defeat, let's wait and see!