Those who expected another easy victory, Game With China, it can be very disappointing. But Nicholas Grbich It is for anyone who does not expect anything before meetings. Serb again got a lot of material to analyze because Polish volleyball players On Thursday in Gdansk they certainly didn’t play perfectly. But it is hard not to notice how they recovered from their unexpected defeat against Iran, and how many of them excelled on the pitch and took advantage of their chances.
Fornal showed that he could change the outcome at a crucial moment. ensures stability
The match with the Chinese was supposed to be easier in theory during the whole tournament in Gdansk. Nikola Grubic was supposed to do the biggest test on Thursday. First of all, check out the players who usually don’t get a chance to play in the starting lineup or even in double substitutions. And the Serbian That’s what he did. The meeting was initiated by ukasz Kaczmarek, Jan Firlej, Jakub Kochanowski, Karol Kłos, Kamil Semeniuk, Tomasz Fornal and Jakub Popiwczak. Carol Buterin also entered, Matthews Pennick and Marcin Janosz.
The Poles played the first set terribly. ChineseWhoever finished the match with a 75% attack success rate was sometimes unstoppable. They themselves erected one block, and here, for example, the entire work of Semenyuk ended. Once again, the Poles, as with Iran two days ago, seemed to miscalculate, believing that the opponent would clearly not be able to threaten them. The Chinese had three fixed balls, but then a reaction turned the tide.
Thomas Fornal Already on Wednesday he showed that with his playing he can change the outcome at a crucial moment. He gave the tiebreak against Iran with his services in the fourth set. The ace served twice with the Chinese in the early stages of the match. But from 21:24 onwards it was hard to believe what he was doing. First he scored a point in attack, then scored a point three times in a row by serving. After attacking the Chinese cars in the next action, the Poles won the set 26:24, although even for the previous moment they did not seem more stable, more confident than their rivals. Fornal was among that.
After the break, Kutchan was kneeling in front of him, Couric kicked him on a whim, TVP Sport journalist Filip Czezanowski wrote on Twitter, and Kaczmarek rushed toward the service area before each play. And that wasn’t the end of Fornal’s brilliant performance. Although he didn’t add more aces, before every ball played towards him, and in attack after two sets he had six out of eight balls. He also finished the last ball in the third half, increasing the effectiveness of his attack to 82 percent. He became the hero of the meeting, and so flashed in the eyes of Nikola Grybech. He showed that he should take this into account when choosing the strongest team. First in the first place, first of all.
Apart from Fornal, the match with the Chinese was decisive, especially for ukasz Kaczmarek. The attacker can make an impact in the penalty area or in the serve. He didn’t do well in attack initially – he only finished one of the four balls. However, he later returned to a strong game, good efficiency and looked better. Although again this is the situation where he gets a chance to play for a greater amount of time and is not indisputably satisfied.
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The Poles finally got rid of their mistakes. As if Grbi agreed to the sanctions list with them
The biggest difference between Poland in the match With Iran and Poland in the China match? Errors, or actually lack thereof. In front of Iran, after three sets, Nikola Gerbic players had twenty broken games and about thirty points given to their opponents by their easy mistakes. And in the match against China? After two sets, only ten – seven are on duty, two on the offensive and one on the receiving end.
It looked as if Nikola Grbic agreed with the players on the list of penalties for fouls. Perhaps he was not completely satisfied with the style of the game, because the Chinese still skillfully used the Polish ball, and played very effectively in attack, but something else was improved, which the Serbs had a grudge against after the match with Iran.
We must not lack the reaction to our opponent’s match. That’s our problem – he said with the awareness of the players that they can’t freeze on the field just because it’s Iran, or in this case China is playing well. And it must be admitted that the Poles tried to follow the words of their coach. In the first set, the bad habits of Tuesday’s competition with Iran were also evident. But later, they responded excellently to the crisis. First, thanks to the licking of Fornal, and then Pica and Kuchanovsky. The service stimulated the other elements and so in the third set of 17:16 with the ball for the Chinese it was 22:16 for Poland. After this streak, the Grbi team rushed for the win.
Grbi jokes that he will hand out tickets to Bologna just before boarding the plane. And seriously? Nobody can be sure of that
To show strength, the Poles would be better off winning two sets at 15.12 and 13, without having any problems beating the opponent. For the spectacle, but also to draw conclusions from this match, it is good that the Chinese are a more demanding opponent.
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Has anyone actually shown this match that they are ready to go to Bologna? One could refer to: Thomas Fornal. But Nikola Grbic is making it clear day in and day out that his election and the building of Polish representation is not only about meetings, but also about training, behavior or approach to meet certain challenges. He tests and checks the players several times, in very different ways, to give himself the best and cleanest picture of the team. During the match with China, a few players clearly won, and the rest lost a little. However, Grbi reiterates that he will not send anyone to Bologna before the end of the tournament in Gdansk. He jokes that he can only hand out tickets to Italy before boarding the plane.
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