I am so proud of this Brazil's team. After Mari's injury, Paula entered and she was playing a great match and got injured too. In fact she was playing way better than Jaqueline in that match. After Paula's injury, Natália played really bad in the match against USA, but even so, the team didn't let USA open a comfortable lead and the tie-breaker was very close. A serve mistake by Sheilla gave USA the match point. WIth Sheilla on the back of the court, without being able to count on Natália's attacks, it was very obvious that Sheilla would be given the ball to try to score Brazil's 14th point and she ended up being blocked.
The score of Brazil's matches in the WGP so far were the following:
Brazil 2-3 Japan (25-13, 23-25, 25-18, 22-25, 13-15)
We only lost in the tie-breaker by the minimum amount of points. And if we had played a little better in the 2nd set, we could have won this match in straight sets.
Brazil's defense in this match just didn't exist and the team's attitude on court was not what we are used to see.
Brazil 3-1 Poland.(25-21, 23-25, 25-20, 25-17)
Brazil's team performance against Poland didn't convince me. Poland helped Brazil a lot with their mistakes, they gave us an entire set in errors.
Brazil 2-3 USA (25-22, 19-25, 28-30, 25-17, 13-15)
Again, if Brazil had played a bit better in the third set, we could have won this match in four sets. Even so, if it wasn't for Paula's injury and Natália's bad performance, I strongly believe we would beat the american team. Brazil lost its confidence in the second set when the American's team service started to cause trouble to Brazil in the second set. In the third set Brazil opened a comfortable lead but the team's mistakes brought USA back to the match. Even so, Brazil wasted a set point when the match was 25-24 for Brazil but then Brazil's team started to play much better in the fourth set and I believe we would keep on playing like that if it wasn't for Paula's problem and more importantly, for the fact that Natália played really bad in that match and as lacking confidence when she had to enter the court.
Brazil 3-0 Italy (25-18, 25-13, 25-16)
Brazil played a great match against Italy. Natália played a great match too playing in the OH position and this was Brazil's best performance so far in the WGP final round. What's more is that we had lost to Italy in 4 sets in Brazil against Italy's B team and today's result show that Brazil's team have improved from the 1st week of the WGP until now.
It is nice to see Brazil's team fighting spirit. If we were to lose a match, let it be in the tie-breaker, by the minimum difference of points.
The question is: Can Brazil lose points against China ? Today USA showed how to play with China 
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I'm sure that our girls can win this match but I know that POL isn't a better team than ITA. Italy doesn't show a great volleyball in this Grand Prix and this is a source of our hopes. 
I suppose that on World Championships ITA will be as strong as on World Cup 2007.
Also, I'm totally with you that Wei Qiuyue are not good enough to carry this team on, neither is Li Juan. Now the starting setter and the opposite are the major weakness of this team, but change will not come easily as it should be. Wei and Li come from the same city with head coach Wang Baoquan, who served for the same club in Tianjin together for the last decade. I highly doubt Wang's guts to cut off any of his fellow-citizens, including Chen Liyi and his own daughter, Wang Qian, from national team. And there won't be major changes before the end of world championship, we just have to accept it and endure it whatsoever. Hopefully with Hui Ruoqi's back, CHN probably could make it into semi-finals, that's as much I can expect. 
