Chapter 308: An Unusual World Championship (6)
On the fifth match day of the World Championships, in the four games of Group B, there was once again an upset that was no less than the previous day's defeat of the Brazilian women's volleyball team by the Dongying women's volleyball team.
If the Brazilian women's volleyball team's loss to the Dongying women's volleyball team was all due to their own death and the altitude was too high, then the reason why the Cuban women's volleyball team lost was purely because of the altitude.
Cuba is an island country, their country's altitude is sea level, and they did not train on the plateau before the start of the World Championships, also because the country's economic strength cannot keep up.
The Korean women's volleyball team, which is wearing Korean ginseng every day and can also go to the surrounding high-altitude areas to practice, has not been affected by the plateau climate at all.
The Cuban women's volleyball team won the first two games in a row, but was stubbornly overturned by the Korean women's volleyball team, and in the fifth game, the players of the Cuban women's volleyball team were almost in a walking state on the court.
The unpopularity, coupled with the farce before the opening, this World Championships unexpectedly gained a lot of attention, which was not expected by the World Volleyball Federation and the event organizers.
On the sixth match day, the Republic women's volleyball team ushered in a strong opponent in the group, and the Serbian women's volleyball team, which is also an old "friend".
In the previous World Champions Cup match, the Serbian women's volleyball team and the Republic women's volleyball team played a very wonderful game, in which the Serbian women's volleyball team gave up the usual traditional tactics and began to change to the same high-speed combination of play, although they eventually lost the game, but won the respect of Wang Lei and the Republic players.
Any team that aspires to be strong while still playing by the rules deserves the respect of fans and volleyball professionals.
Now that the Serbian women's volleyball team meets the Republic women's volleyball team again in the World Championships, both teams are looking forward to playing better.
Compared with the last meeting between the two teams, the Serbian women's volleyball team performed better this time, their tactics changed quickly, and they did not completely abandon the previous style of play, but introduced more tactical changes on the basis of the previous pursuit of intensity.
So in the first game, the Republic women's volleyball team was defeated by the Serbian women's volleyball team 25-21.
The performance of the Republic women's volleyball team is very stable now, and the mentality of the players is very good, but because of this, they also lack a little explosiveness, which is what Wang Lei is improving, he hopes that his team can break out when it should break out, and stabilize when it should be stable.
In the second game, Wang Lei changed the team lineup, Ma Dongmei was put in the back row, and the front row was replaced by Cheng Cheng and Liu Jiani's attacking lineup.
The Serbian women's volleyball team still continued its own style of play, but the Republic women's volleyball team suddenly broke out in the second game, and Ma Dongmei's back-row attack attracted a lot of defensive attention from the Serbian women's volleyball team, which made Cheng Cheng and Liu Jiani's offensive efficiency much higher.
25-20, the Republic women's volleyball team pulled back a game.
In the third game, the two teams were at a standstill, and the two sides played tied many times, and the score was tied until 27, and finally the more experienced Serbian women's volleyball team won the crucial third game 29-27 with difficulty.
Although the victory or defeat of a game does not affect the qualifying situation of the women's volleyball team of the Republic too much, after all, they have already grasped their own destiny after two consecutive wins, but Wang Lei and the players do not want to give up the game so easily.
The game entered the fourth game, as long as the fourth game is won, the Serbian women's volleyball team will have the advantage of winning the first place in the group, but unfortunately the Serbian women's volleyball team met the explosive Ma Dongmei in the fourth game.
Ma Dongmei has not played smoothly in the previous three games, after all, she is also a person, not a machine, and the ups and downs of the state are very normal, but after entering the fourth game, Ma Dongmei continued to attack successfully, helping the Republic women's volleyball team to play an amazing momentum, and the young players also broke out completely under the leadership of Ma Dongmei.
In the face of such a Republic women's volleyball team, the Serbian women's volleyball team had no choice no matter how good the state was, 25-19, and the two teams entered the final tiebreaker.
In the deciding game, the physical fitness that Wang Lei has been emphasizing has once again become the key point that determines the outcome of the game.
Serbia is also not a plateau country, although they have mountains at an altitude of more than 2,600 meters, but they cannot afford to build a high-altitude training base, and a country that has only been established for more than ten years does not have the financial strength to go abroad for training, so the Serbian women's volleyball team is also not very suitable for the climate in Denver.
Since Wang Lei took over, the women's volleyball team of the Republic has always regarded physical fitness as the first priority in training, and now the average age of the women's volleyball team of the Republic is less than 24 years old, which can be said to be extremely young.
So when the game reached the second half of the fifth game, the Serbian women's volleyball team finally couldn't hold on, their physical fitness declined, and the team's offensive and defensive efficiency was reduced, while the Republic women's volleyball team has always maintained a very good state.
In the end, this wonderful game ended with the victory of the Republic women's volleyball team, and both sides of the game can be said to have no regrets in the end, the Serbian women's volleyball team played its own predetermined tactics and style of play, and the Republic women's volleyball team also continued to grow after such a hard battle.
In the other three games on the same day, the Brazilian women's volleyball team finally did not continue to drop the chain, and their head coach did not know what kind of way to stabilize the team's chaos, especially the main player Senna? Kovar, she performed extremely well in this match with the Dutch women's volleyball team, scoring 32 points in a single game, and the aging defense of the Dutch women's volleyball team was regarded as nothing by Senna.
In the other two games, the host United States team defeated the French women's volleyball team 3-1, and the French women's volleyball team, which is full of modeling talent, can be said to have lost the possibility of qualifying.
The U.S. women's volleyball team did not completely collapse under tremendous pressure, and their head coach Stephen? Lee continued his life as a spectator, while the team's assistant coach, Stana? Joseph successfully assumed the responsibility of commanding the team.
Heroes in troubled times, Steiner? Joseph is a former core player of the U.S. women's volleyball team, and after the U.S. women's volleyball team showed chaos, Stana used her influence to stabilize the team's situation.
In the last game of Group A, the Dongying women's volleyball team, which had just defeated the Brazilian women's volleyball team, failed to continue to play the dark horse, and they were defeated by the Puerto Rico women's volleyball team 3-2.
After the three rounds of group stage battles in Group A, the Republic women's volleyball team won all three games and ranked first in the group, followed by the Serbian women's volleyball team and the host United States women's volleyball team, although the Brazilian women's volleyball team only had one victory, but they did not lose the hope of qualifying, only the French women's volleyball team can say goodbye to this World Championship in advance.