World Women’s Volleyball League Finals: China will play Italy again on Thursday night
2022-07-13 14:25:26Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Network News The 2022 World Women’s Volleyball League Finals was ignited in Ankara, Turkey on July 13. At 20:00 on July 14th, Beijing time, the Chinese women’s volleyball team, which advanced to the finals as the fourth place in the competition, will compete fiercely with the old rival Italian women’s volleyball team in the crucial quarter-finals.
In the first stage of the World League this season, the newly formed Chinese women’s volleyball team defeated the Italian team 3:1. This time they met again on the stage of the finals. Cai Bin, the coach of the Chinese team, looks forward to leading his disciples to triumph again. In this season’s World Women’s Volleyball League competition, the Italian women’s volleyball team, a strong European team, ranked third with a record of 10 wins and 2 losses, and the overall ranking was one place higher than the Chinese team. Among the defeats, in addition to the 0:3 loss to the Turkish team in the first game, the other was lost to the Chinese women’s volleyball team, but the Italian women’s volleyball team at that time lacked many main players including the team’s top star Egnu.
Compared with its opponents, the Chinese women’s volleyball team, which failed to reach the finals of the World Women’s Volleyball League last season, has shown a new look after changing coaches and personnel. The team lacking Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning is in the competition They got 8 wins and 4 losses with 26 points, and finally advanced to the finals as the fourth place. It is worth mentioning that the Chinese women’s volleyball team won all of them when they faced European teams in the competition, including the match against the Italian team 3:1 on June 4th.
This time to go to Turkey to compete in the finals, the Chinese women’s volleyball team has adjusted its main attack and setter positions. The main attacker Wang Yizhu, who had been absent from the third leg of the competition, returned to the list, while setter Cai Yaqian failed to enter the list. . In addition to Wang Yizhu, the other 13 players who will compete in the finals include: Li Yingying, Wang Yunli, Jin Ye (main attack); Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Yang Hanyu, Gao Yi (secondary attack); Gong Xiangyu, Chen Peiyan (coupling); Ding Xia, Diao Linyu ( Second biography); Wang Weiyi, Ni Feihan (free people).
After leading the team to Ankara for adaptive training on July 12, and after a comprehensive analysis of the Italian team, Cai Bin said: “We have the confidence and courage to win!” According to the schedule of the finals, Beijing time on July 13 In two quarter-finals, Brazil played against Japan and the United States played against Serbia; in the other two quarter-finals on the evening of the 14th, China played against Italy and Turkey against Thailand.
Text/Jin Pengtu, Omnimedia Reporter of Xi’an Newspaper Industry/Xinhua News Agency