2017 FIVB World League

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Kurek should be OH. They need him to block Patch.
Lomacz should start.

I also agree that Antiga was never the problem.

It all started when Italy defeated them in the world cup. Before that they were playing much much better and fluidly until that surprise defeat.

They really need to get themselves out of the water they are in before they drown. Kubiak should stop treating his players as if they are babies to protect and learn to fend for themselves God I love Michal for his sexiness but his leadership needs to be more proactive than reactive. It would probably help grow the players more especially the young ones.

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Kubiak didnt took responsibility tonight as a team captain and a leader.

I'm still shocked how Poles managed to put Zhigalov in a dominant position, officially the worst OPP in DIv 1

Quote from Kaziyski

Antiga was never a problem, only players and their "looser" mentality. I saw Canada live in Novi Sad, Antiga has already made great things..

If RUssia or USA qualify for F6 then WL is totally fcked up

Poland did not play well today, but Russia played "their best" , this is because they are up against the host and they don`t want Poland to win. But you can expect a much less motivated Russia against USA and Iran.

Up the best? With 22 errors in 3 sets? How that can be the best?

Russia was bitchslapped by everyone except Argentina and Italy... this same team

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Up the best? With 22 errors in 3 sets? How that can be the best?

I said "their best", because Russia has been playing worst than this during this WL, this game tonight was actually their best game so far.

Well I have to say, if this is the best team we have

We lost 0-3 against a team that beat only definitely the weakest Argentinians and Italy, who is barely any good this year...

Quote from Rains_of_Castamere

Kurek should be OH. They need him to block Patch.
Lomacz should start.

I also agree that Antiga was never the problem.

It all started when Italy defeated them in the world cup. Before that they were playing much much better and fluidly until that surprise defeat.

They really need to get themselves out of the water they are in before they drown. Kubiak should stop treating his players as if they are babies to protect and learn to fend for themselves God I love Michal for his sexiness but his leadership needs to be more proactive than reactive. It would probably help grow the players more especially the young ones.

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I was thinking the same. No matter what happened after, Poland never played at that level again. I don't believe it's just natural decay.

Quote from Kaziyski

Kubiak didnt took responsibility tonight as a team captain and a leader.

I'm still shocked how Poles managed to put Zhigalov in a dominant position, officially the worst OPP in DIv 1

Zhigalov is not an equivalent of say Mikhaylov but he's not bad-bad-bad. On a one-off basis, he can deliver a mega-game; I think he scored 35+ points/game once or twice for Kuzbass. If you recall Belgorod playing vs Zaksa in CL this season, you would remember that Max (despite being kill-blocked several times) looked way better than Konarski.

Ofc powsoff but Zhigalov made the diff yday in some key moments. Player that was shadow in previous 6 matches, that's the problem

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Ofc powsoff but Zhigalov made the diff yday in some key moments. Player that was shadow in previous 6 matches, that's the problem

A shadow of a God I assume? 87% in the first game.
The elefant in the room for Rus, as for me, was Klyuka. By far not the best game for him but Egor did his job well, I.e. he was the only player in the team able to work vs organised block. Zhigalov did score a lot but plenty of those were against a single block.

As I said Poles or better to say their poor tactics made Zhigalov looking good, that's all. And Zhigalov didnt have the best club season either. I remember that sport.bussines calculated that he and Danilov were the worst OPP pair in Superleague.

Did anybody watch the first set of TUR-CHN match. It ended up 43-41

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Did anybody watch the first set of TUR-CHN match. It ended up 43-41

I did Turks missed way too many chances to take the lead, same was in 2nd set

Yes me too first was 19-22 for Turkey first then lost 43-41. Second set was 17-22 then 20-23 but finally lost 26-24 again... Like Kaziyski said basically lost all chances they had.

Also the middles especially Batur played really bad but coach didn't change him. Mustafa Koç didn't get any chance throughout the match even though both middles were disastrous

This is prolably the worst game ever of Deroo

I was thinking Belgium would simply grab 3 wins this weekend.

Canada is serving and passing really well.

Maar is such a beast. And so easy on the eyes

i just started to watch it from the third set....isnt Belgian setter playing very badly i mean the quality of his sets are simply pretty bad ?

Yes, he is not playing good, but Belgium is not passing the ball well.

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i just started to watch it from the third set....isnt Belgian setter playing very badly i mean the quality of his sets are simply pretty bad ?