At 23 o'clock on the evening of August 4, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team will usher in the last match of the women's volleyball group stage, and our opponent will be the strong, two-time world champion Serbia women's volleyball team. Due to the excellent performance of both teams in the first two rounds, the Chinese women's volleyball team is currently ranked first, and the Serbia women's volleyball team is ranked second, and the winner of the two teams will definitely win the first place in this group. For Serbia and Chinese women's volleyball, there is no pressure to qualify now, because both teams have advanced to the top 8 in advance, even if the losing side may fall to the third place, but because the two groups with better results can also advance, so whether it is the Chinese women's volleyball team with 5 points, or the Serbia women's volleyball team with 4 points, even if it falls to the third place, it can be ironclad to advance to the top 8, this game is to be able to have a good position in the knockout round, so we must strive to win.
There are still a lot of highlights of this game, but first of all, I want to remind you that although CCTV will broadcast this game, the time is also 23 o'clock in the evening, but there is an adjustment. In the past, the matches of the Chinese women's volleyball team would be placed on the main channel of CCTV's sports channel, but this time, because the main channel has other live broadcast tasks, the game of the Chinese women's volleyball team was broadcast on CCTV1 comprehensive channel this time. Therefore, fans who want to watch this game on TV must pay attention to the change of this information, do not watch the wrong channel, and guard the sports channel. You won't be able to see the Chinese women's volleyball game tonight.
Speaking of returning to this game, there are a lot of highlights that I can introduce to you. First up are the top two attackers. Boskovic of the Serbia women's volleyball team and Li Yingying of the Chinese women's volleyball team will face off against each other in this match. Both are very strong and are at the heart of each team, and whoever can play at a better level may be able to make or break this game.
The second point is that many players on the Chinese women's volleyball side have experienced the classic battle with the Serbia women's volleyball team in the final of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Ding Xia are all old people who have experienced that battle in the Chinese women's volleyball team, and their experience will be very important to face old opponents again. The third point that needs to be worth our attention is that the Serbia women's volleyball team has already used their P card, that is, the substitute players, so the lineup of this game will be different from their first two games, perhaps the loss to the United States women's volleyball team in the last game gave them a certain touch.
The Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the defending champion United States women's volleyball team 3:2 in the first two games, and defeated the host France women's volleyball team 3:0, and directly kicked the France women's volleyball team out of the tournament with this game, getting 5 points ranking. First in the group. The Serbia women's volleyball team defeated the host France 3-0 in the first game, lost 2-3 to the United States women's volleyball team in the second game, and is now second with 4 points.
The two teams have met twice in the last year. The Chinese team achieved 1 win and 1 loss, but the victory of this year's World Women's Volleyball League is because the Serbia women's volleyball team did not send the main force to come, the two sides played in the Olympic qualifying tournament held in China in September last year, when the Serbia women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team, and also made the Chinese women's volleyball team lose the opportunity to directly qualify for the Olympic Games, so this game again faced the Serbia women's volleyball team with the main force, which is definitely an opportunity for revenge for the Chinese women's volleyball team.