In the third round of the World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team 1-3 Canada. In the first game, the Chinese team entered the state relatively slowly, and lost a game at first, but the second game was the same as yesterday's game, the Chinese team entered the state very quickly, and it was relatively easy to win. The Canadian women's volleyball team responded properly, coupled with the rhythm always in their own hands, especially when the Chinese team was leading at 17:12 in the fourth game, the Canadian team did not collapse and won this game. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team also swallowed the first defeat 1:3. On the whole, the three shortcomings of Cai Bin's coaching in this game were very obvious.
First, when we face some teams with strong No. 2 positions, it is really difficult to put pressure on the opponents, and the defensive problems of the No. 2 position are still unsolved. In yesterday's game, when facing the stronger American team, why was it able to win the opponent in one go? It's because the U.S. team has a semi-main lineup this time, although their book strength is stronger than the Canadian team, but they don't have a good attacker on the side in the receiving position, so we are not afraid of the U.S. team, the U.S. team is the front row attack, and we did a very good job of blocking and defending yesterday, so we were able to win the opponent. However, the Canadians have a strong attacking point in Van Rijk's No. 2 position.
The defense of this position is the weakness of the Chinese women's volleyball team, whether it is the Turkish team in the World Women's Volleyball Final last year. Or in 2022, we lost to the Italian team twice in the knockout round, both of which were lost to the opponent's strong response, Turkey's Vargas, Italy's Agnu, these are the nightmare existence of the Chinese women's volleyball team, so how to solve the defensive problem of the second position is a problem that the Chinese women's volleyball team needs to focus on.
The second point is that our second lineup is really too poor, our main lineup may be able to have the level of the top four in the world, but when we need some changes, the substitution of our second lineup seems to be more just to give the main team more time to rest. It's too much worse than the second lineup of the Canadian team. After the substitute main attacker Pavard came up, he was able to solve the problem of a pass, and the effect was very obvious. And whether we change the response, change the main attack, or change the setter, it can't have the corresponding effect. Our second squad is too weak on the one hand. The gap in strength with the main lineup is very obvious. In addition, you don't have any characteristics, if your strength is not good, you can change some tactical play after you come up, and you can change the rhythm, but the Chinese women's volleyball team doesn't have it, so this is also a big problem.
Finally, the current Chinese women's volleyball team, especially since Cai Bin took charge, is not very qualified in terms of mentality, and we feel unstable no matter how many points we lead. In the fourth game, the game was 17:12 ahead by 5 points, which is already a very large point difference in the World Women's Volleyball League. Cai Bin is a Confucian handsome, not very angry with the players, but it seems that the string of the players is not very tight, especially when there is a big score lead, our emotions are always nervous, but it is better to be like Lang Ping when he was coaching, occasionally angry at the players, so that their ideology can be tightened, and the effect may be better.
In the first stop of the World Women's Volleyball League, a few months before the Olympics, it is a good thing to expose all these problems! I hope that the Chinese women's volleyball team can be a blessing in disguise and quickly solve these problems. We lost this game to a lower ranking team from Canada. was also directly deducted 11 points, which is a lot of points and will affect our later world rankings.