As one of the representatives of Asian volleyball, the Thai women's volleyball team suffered a second defeat. Against the strong world champion Serbia, the Thai women's volleyball team only put up a stubborn resistance in the second game, showing one-sided in the first and third games, with the score of 13-25/27-29/19-25 in the third game. In the other game, Italy swept the underdogs Bulgaria to get their second win.
In this game, Serbia sent a substitute lineup, the captain lacked Boskovic, Odeninovic and other main players, and Aye Charapong, one of the Thai tridents, was injured and did not participate with the team. In the first game, the Thai team's offense was repeatedly limited by the Serbian women's volleyball team; In the second game, Thailand strengthened the stability of a pass, played a quick change, and led 21-17, but unfortunately the situation fell into the dilemma of no one to get the ball down again and was reversed; In the third game, Thailand's disadvantage was magnified, and Serbia became more and more courageous.
According to technical statistics, the Thai women's volleyball team fell behind in an all-round way, smashing the ball 42-33, blocking the net 16-0, and serving 6-5. The Thai team is known for their short height and limited blocking ability, but it is still a bit surprising that there was no one block in three games. In the absence of a block, the Serbian attacker played very comfortably, as if he was in a no-man's land. In terms of their own mistakes, Thailand gave away 17 points in 3 games, and Serbia scored 21 points.
As far as the level of the Thai women's volleyball team is concerned, the only thing that can be seen at present is defense. In the past, the Thai team gave the impression that their running attack was more flexible, and the interspersed cover of one and two points was more realistic. But now with the decline in the level of the Thai women's volleyball team, their fast-changing tactics are also difficult to achieve. None of the three players who received the first pass, whether they were liberos or attackers, had more than 20% of the first-pass completion rate, with Wipaoui at 18%, Pianute at 13%, and Chachuang at 13%.
Such a low pass completion rate can hardly support the team's fast-changing tactics, and the whole team can only adjust the attack frequently. The height of Thai attackers is generally not 180cm, and Serbia is almost always 190cm, so they can only be stopped frequently. Chachuang was blocked with 8 errors on 7-of-29 shooting, Wipavi was blocked on 9-of-25 shooting, and he was blocked on 5-of-10 shooting of 22 deductions. It can be said that now this Thai team has neither a pass, nor a strong attack, no serve and blocking, only defense.
After Serbia broke a pass from Thailand with a strong serve, the net began to come into play, scoring 16 times in the game. It is worth mentioning that Serbia only had one mistake and was blocked in the last five wide attackers, and that was Bukilic. I have to say that Thailand's blocking really has no effect on Serbia. Bukilic 17, Lozzo 14 and Osmajic 13.
Italy beat Bulgaria 25-11, 25-22, 25-19 for their second victory. Italy led 45-32 in smashing, 9-5 in blocking and 6-4 in serve. Antropova scored 19 points on 2-of-17 shooting from 32 shots, and Bonifao scored 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting from 11 shots; Bulgarian Dudova 14 points, Yordanova 11 points.