Women's Volleyball CEV European Championship 2019

[VolleyRuller96 264]

What have they done in set 1, that's crazy Who would suspect we will start the match against by winning a set 25-14 ! ?

[VolleyRuller96 264]

2 more eightfinal matches confirmed:

vs in Ankara

vs in Ankara

[Dunadan 1,103]

Italy has no motivation to win this match tbh...and if they lose 3-0 or 3-1 they'll also have an easier draw.

[hckošice 15,520]

Just now, VolleyRuller96 said:

What have they done in set 1, that's crazy Who would suspect we will start the match against by winning a set 25-14 ! ?

 

So it looks Italy want travell to Slovakia for the next match then, not really surprising, easiest opponent for them, but the travel in our roads can cost them some forces at the end of the tournament

[VolleyRuller96 264]

16 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

Italy has no motivation to win this match tbh...and if they lose 3-0 or 3-1 they'll also have an easier draw.

Why? If they win the group, Italy will play Spain, the 4-th placed team in Pool D. Meanwhile, if we would win this match 3-0 or 3-1 we would also win the group, and Italy would take 2nd place and have to play against Slovakia. Which is at least  as good as Spain and will also have the entire stadium supporting them during their eightfinal, so TBH I don`t think there would be many benefits in giving this match up.

 

Not that it would happen, since Italy won the next 2 sets 

[dareza 911]

Just now, VolleyRuller96 said:

Why? If they win the group, Italy will play Spain, the 4-th placed team in Pool D. Meanwhile, if we would win this match 3-0 or 3-1 we would also win the group, and Italy would take 2nd place and have to play against Slovakia. Which is at least  as good as Spain and will also have the entire stadium supporting them during their eightfinal, so TBH I don`t think there would be many benefits in giving this match up.

 

Not that it would happen, since Italy won the next 2 sets 

 

Maybe because Serbia will be in their part of draw.

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Just now, dareza said:

 

Maybe because Serbia will be in their part of draw.

Oh yeah, that`s right, I was only thinking about the eightfinals.

But still, the other half of the draw has Turkey and Netherlands in it, so it`s also very chalenging.

[Dunadan 1,103]

Just now, VolleyRuller96 said:

Why? If they win the group, Italy will play Spain, the 4-th placed team in Pool D. Meanwhile, if we would win this match 3-0 or 3-1 we would also win the group, and Italy would take 2nd place and have to play against Slovakia. Which is at least  as good as Spain and will also have the entire stadium supporting them during their eightfinal, so TBH I don`t think there would be many benefits in giving this match up.

 

Not that it would happen, since Italy won the next 2 sets 

 

Now it can't happen anymore because Italy has won the group... but Spain or Slovakia will be a sure win (yeah, Slovakia a bit harder at home but no way Italy lose against them) while Germany in quarters and Turkey or NED in semifinal would have been easier than Russia/Poland in quarters and Serbia in semifinal

 

Edited August 29, 2019 by Dunadan

[VolleyRuller96 264]

We surprisingly win 3-2 and take the 2nd place in our group, which drastically shakes things up regarding the next phase.

 

We manage to evade  for now, and will play  in the eightfinal

 

This is a very bad news for  and  because they will have to play  and  respectively, instead of playing against each other as was expected. 

 

 

 

 

[MHSN 3,777]

well I think Italy did everything to lose, they had 5 serve errors in tie break and Sorokaite herself gave 4 points (3 directly and one more) because of her poor reception and still Mazzanti didn't replace her !

 

at first it was just weird for me the way Italy played in last 2 sets, then I came and read your posts about "hosts can't play together rule" so we know Italy will play Slovakia. but will they send Slovakia to the top half ? or they will send Italy to the bottom half ? if that's the case then I can say Italy lost the match on purpose .

Edited August 29, 2019 by MHSN