On September 5, Beijing time, the final of the Women's Volleyball European Championship ended, and finally Italy counterattacked the defending champion Serbia 3-1, winning the championship for the third time after 2009. The Italian women's volleyball team avenged the defeat of the Olympic opponent. Egnu received the MVP honor and she finally defeated Boskovic.
Serbia has reached the final of the European Championship for 3 consecutive years, looking forward to 3 consecutive championships, the previous 5 competitions, Serbia has won 3 championships, is the absolute hegemony of the European women's volleyball team, and is also the number one favorite of this competition. Italy, which has lost to Serbia several times in the tournament, became the defending champions' final. Italy after the World Championships in general, the previous Olympic group stage is also stumbling, lost to the general state of the Chinese women's volleyball team, into the knockout round after being hung by Serbia.
This time, in the case of not being optimistic, the Italian team has exploded with amazing strength. In the first set, losing 24-26, Egnu took over the match, and the Italian team blossomed more, winning three consecutive sets 25-22, 25-19, 25-11, reversing Serbia 3-1 on aggregate, and winning the championship again after 12 years. In this campaign, Egnu scored a game-high 29 points (47 deductions, 25 of 4, 4 shots), and Sheila also scored 20 points. Boskovic scored 21 points (21-of-52) to save the way.
In the end, Egnu was awarded the MVP of the tournament, which is also another important MVP of Egnu, which means that she is still the top attacker in the world volleyball world. In addition, in the third and fourth place matches, Turkey beat the Netherlands 3-0. The European Championships ended with the final rankings as follows:
Winner: Italy
Runners-up: Serbia
3rd place: Turkey
Fourth: the Netherlands
5-8: Poland, Russia, France, Sweden
9-24: Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Romania, Azerbaijan.