Women's Volleyball CEV European Championship 2023

[stepansevs 135]

  On 8/29/2023 at 8:23 PM, Jinzha said:

So far  has won all games with a convincing 3-0 and now we face  and will probably convincingly lose 0-3. Every game has felt a bit predictable to me, I was hoping we'd face some of the teams close to us in the ranking like ,  or  .

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Come on we have not lost yet :-D but sure, volleyball Is too predictible in comparison with other team games :-(

[Monzanator 4,610]

beat 3-0. The final set was no-contest after Poland blew all those leads in the first two.

 

To think Polish media actually think Wołosz is the best setter in women's game

[Noorderling29 168]

  On 8/29/2023 at 8:23 PM, Jinzha said:

So far  has won all games with a convincing 3-0 and now we face  and will probably convincingly lose 0-3. Every game has felt a bit predictable to me, I was hoping we'd face some of the teams close to us in the ranking like ,  or  .

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Against France the result was 3 - 1 and we could easily have lost more sets against weak opposition. We were helped enormously by a very favorable draw, compared for instance to Belgium. Partly the result of course of finishing 4th two years ago (while IIRC Belgium failed to qualify for the knock out fase).

by far our best and most stabile match was against the on paper strongest opponent. The semi finale will show if this was the result of our high level, as the TV commentator stated, or, as I suspect, the weakness of Bulgaria who seemed to not cope with the pressure.

 

‘Friday will tell.

Edited August 31, 2023 by Noorderling29

[Dennis 746]

 3 - 0  in the bronze medal match  

[Matteo92 98]

Italy has been beyond abysmal for the entire tournament, Mazzanti should have been fired after Tokyo

[CCB 565]

A bronze medal for the Dutch team with a 3-0 victory over Italy. How on earth is that possible? 

[Noorderling29 168]

Looking at the draw,, I was convinced that we could get to the semi-final, to then be hammered by the top teams. The GS matches were pretty awful, the QF against Bulgaria was much better. The matches Friday and today seem to suggest that the team is much better than expected. 

[hoversaBR 474]

I don't know what Mazzanti is trying to prove, but Egonu on the bench should be a crime. Everything Italy has won in recent years in women's volleyball has been thanks to her.

[MHSN 3,655]

any chance Mazzanti getting fired after this ?

 

benching Egonu, not inviting De Gennaro or Bosetti ! only a mentally handicapped person would do that.

 

[pedja789 86]

I have never seen a coach destroy his own team like Mazzanti did in this competition.