Women's Volleyball FIVB Nations League 2025

[Henry_Leon 1,703]

 come back and won 3-2 over  

[Josh 13,494]

This’ll be a long VNL 

[hoversaBR 840]

I still don't understand what the  goal is with this 100% inexperienced team.

[Josh 13,494]

@hoversaBR I noticed Gabi isn’t playing, is she injured? 

[Josh 13,494]

Having had some time to reflect from that… one of our worst VNL showings in a while, there’s a lot of things that went wrong. 
 

- Serve receive was abhorrent, which led to a lot of out of system swings from the outside (barely any points scored from the middle)

 

- Struggled a lot with short balls and and they almost always led to kills

 

- Got cooked by the Netherlands in blocks, but barely any of them were stuff blocks. 
 

- 6-9 disadvantage from the service line, but the Netherlands were getting some of the luckiest aces. 
 

And on top of that we let Vos and Van De Vosse score 20 and 14. WTF?

 

On the positive side, Mitrovic had a much better game and Guenzen made a positive impact but other than that.. (Van Ryk was meh, but she can’t do it all)

[hoversaBR 840]

5 hours ago, Josh said:

@hoversaBR I noticed Gabi isn’t playing, is she injured? 

Just resting, she had an exhausting season with Conegliano, so the coach preferred not to force her to play at the beginning. If I'm not mistaken, she has something chronic, so he doesn't want to take any risks. She'll only be back in the third week. 

[hoversaBR 840]

This German team is very talented. Some limitations prevent them from being a top team and medal contender. 

[Josh 13,494]

Service error then an ace to finish off the set 

[Josh 13,494]

 Guezen and Thokbuom are gonna be part of Canada’s core in the future,  super impressed with them 

Edited June 7, 2025 by Josh
Apparently can’t spell Thokbuom

[Federer91 3,375]

What a bizarre match with Serbia. In the first 4 sets there was only one team playing, where practically everything was going for them and neither were close. Then in the tiebreak it's neck and neck with lots of drama and happily we pulled it off in the end.

 

But watching women's volleyball is sooo frustrating. Like we were dominating sets 2 and 3 and then the fourth starts and bam it's 0:7 from the get go and we barely make 10 points. Like how? As if completely different players came on the field, but they weren't from 2 & 3. Anyone can lose a set, but such amplitudes in performance is not good. 

 

Serbia probably found their next Boskovic in Uzelac. She is going to be a really annoying player to play against in the future.  She has all the components to be a big star and carried this Serbian team in the big moments.