On June 11th, Beijing time, the World Women's Volleyball League Hong Kong Station will officially start, and the Chinese women's volleyball team will face the Bulgarian women's volleyball team in its debut in Hong Kong! The first thing worth noting is that the start time of this game has changed compared with the Macau station, the Macau game is more familiar to everyone to start at 7:30 p.m., but the four games in Hong Kong will start on time at 8:30 p.m., and the CCTV sports event channel, that is, CCTV5+, will also broadcast the whole game live!
After talking about the time, let's focus on the situation of this game, because the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the Japanese team and the Italian team in the Macau game, so far the Chinese women's volleyball team has not won the ticket to the Paris Olympics, so they must go all out to win the game, and they can only practice the lineup under the condition of ensuring that they qualify for the Olympic Games!
The opponent of the first game, the Bulgarian women's volleyball team, is the weakest of the four opponents in this game, so the only goal of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this game is to win by sweeping 3-0, because the score of the world ranking after the game is directly related to the strength of the opponent, even if the game is won by a 3-0 sweep, the Chinese women's volleyball team only scored 1.98 points, and if it wins 3-1 or 3-2, the score is only 0.01 points!
But once you lose the upset, the loss will be very heavy. Even if you lose 2-3, you will be deducted 13.02 points, if you lose 1-3, you will be deducted 15.52 points, and once you lose 0-3, you will be directly deducted 18.02 points.
As we all know, before the game in Hong Kong, the Chinese women's volleyball team made adjustments to the squad, Zhuang Yushan replaced Wang Yunrui, and Xu Xiaoting was recalled! The adjustment of these two points actually happens to be the most questioning voice of fans, Wang Yunrui got the opportunity to start in the first two games of the Macau station in a row, but she did not grasp it, and scored a point in two consecutive games to cause the Chinese women's volleyball team to lose the first game in two consecutive games, and she did not get the opportunity to appear again in the next two games.
However, for the current Chinese women's volleyball team, neither Wang Yunrui nor Zhuang Yushan is the most important, because the current strength of the two of them is not enough to directly help the Chinese women's volleyball team reverse the trend of the game, and what really needs to be changed by Cai Bin is the use of Zhu Ting! The only big win of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Macau game was a 3-0 sweep of Thailand, which was also Zhu Ting's only game that started and played the whole game!
Even aside from the outcome of the game, in terms of the momentum on the field alone, there is a huge difference between that game and the remaining three games, whenever the Thai team plays with momentum, Zhu Ting will help everyone point out the problems on the field in time, and even take the initiative to ask for a timeout to help the team adjust, but in the game with the Italian team, when Zhu Ting was not there, the Chinese women's volleyball team collapsed directly, from the regrettable defeat in the first game to the fiasco in the next two games, so in the Hong Kong game, the Chinese women's volleyball team must reuse Zhu Ting if they want to lock the ticket to the Paris Olympics as soon as possible!
The second is the setter, Diao Linyu's performance in the Macau game has been widely questioned, but these questions are not all aimed at Diao Linyu, but more about why Cai Bin did not change when Diao Linyu's state was up and down! Now the answer is finally out, Ding Xia had allergic symptoms when she was in Macau and couldn't play, so Xu Xiaoting reappeared in the squad for this competition!
Although the coaching staff still kept Ding Xia in the squad, she still could not play, according to the latest news from CCTV Sports Channel, Ding Xia has returned to Beijing for treatment, and she will be determined to miss the first game of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Hong Kong!
In this case, Diao Linyu and Xu Xiaoting's play will play a vital role, and it is also a good opportunity for Xu Xiaoting, because she did not enter the competition list of the Macau station before, if it were not for Ding Xia's sudden situation, she would have confirmed that she would not be able to participate in the Paris Olympics, and if the Hong Kong competition can have a bright performance, she has a chance to catch the last train of the Paris Olympics!