Men's Volleyball FIVB World Championship 2018

[hoversaBR 442]

Well, world championship is not Nations League/World League.  Whenever someone is favorite by performance in these tournaments goes badly afterwards in a great championship. Let's see if France will recover.

 

Congratulations Netherlands!! 

[MHSN 3,632]

wow. I thought yesterday result was just an accident (since i didn't watch the match) but this Netherlands team plays amazing. that was a well deserved win and actually they deserved more than 2 points from this match !! now France is in big trouble with 2 defeats and still have to play Canada.

 

at this point I don't know which team from Group B I prefer to play against ! they are all very good

[Wanderer 1,726]

This group B turned to be insane

[Federer91 2,810]

24 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Fantastic, I can already see our team in that second round group with Poland, Russia and France 

 

Poland are too smart to have that group. 

[LDOG 2,418]

Ahora, Federer91 said:

 

Poland are too smart to have that group. 

 

Yes, with Captain douchebag Heynen as coach you never know, but I don't think the option by being 2nd in the group is that much better: it would be USA, Bulgaria again and the 4th of group B which could also be France or Brazil. Bulgaria-Poland will be played at the same time as Canada-France, so it will be difficult for these teams to calculate while they are playing.

[Gianlu33 4,606]

Italy won a very easy match against Domincan Republic.. 4/4

[CCB 565]

10 hours ago, thepharoah said:

Great victory for the Netherlands 

Well, I was wrong yesterday. I truly never believed that Netherlands could win against France. I feel sorry for Egypt, they play nice volleybal and would have chances to go through when they wouldn't have played in this insane group B. 

 

In the Netherlands they say that only the results against Brazil, France and Canada will count in the second round. When they finish second in the second round, then all results will count to determine the best numbers two.

[heywoodu 15,174]

Why does volleyball need to have such a bullshit format at world championships?

What's wrong with X groups and the best Y teams per group go to the knock out stage?

[dcro 10,210]

58 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Why does volleyball need to have such a bullshit format at world championships?

What's wrong with X groups and the best Y teams per group go to the knock out stage?

 

Because why make it easy when you can make it complicated?

 

"2nd best 2nd of second round"

 

[Federer91 2,810]

Everything is complicated with FIVB all the time.. They just don't know better.