Olympic Games - London 2012 Women (qualification process)

Let's go Dutch team!!! I want to see them in London!!! I'm not an expert but do they have any chances to qualified for the Summer Olympics?

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Serbia is playing well so far. Reception is quite stable and Ana can use their middles very comfortably

Agree, when Netherlands is keep serving like this, the middles of Serbia will destroy us. They score a lot!

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Let's go Dutch team!!! I want to see them in London!!! I'm not an expert but do they have any chances to qualified for the Summer Olympics?

No.

Reception is quite good, but Jesus, neither Malesevic nor Vesovic just cannot kill a spike. It will be a problem against stronger teams.

Both teams play similar, points come from Opp and MBs...but Serbia just has the better players. Like yesterday, Dutch girls serve way too easy, Serbia can do whatever they want in sideout.

Krsmanovic and Rasic must have huge % in attack.

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No.

Reception is quite good, but Jesus, neither Malesevic nor Vesovic just cannot kill a spike. It will be a problem against stronger teams.

but Malesevic is playing much better than Vesovic IMO

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Reception is quite good, but Jesus, Malesevic and Vesovic just cannot kill a spike. It will be a problem against stronger teams.

Agree, but if you keep passing like this the middles and Brakocevic will make the points

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Let's go Dutch team!!! I want to see them in London!!! I'm not an expert but do they have any chances to qualified for the Summer Olympics?

They need to win this match (and the tournament). If they lose this match there is a theoretical (but highly unlikely) set of results that could see them get to the semi finals of this OQT. But treat this match as a 'must win'...

I think Holland need to work in their defensive skills (Serve-Block-Defense) in future, so they can creat more opportunities to score.

Rasic is such a springy middle. Up high and quick.

Rasic is scary

ALWAYS those service errors
Oh come on now, 3-point advantage for Netherlands out of nothing.

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Krsmanovic and Rasic must have huge % in attack.

Rasic 6 out of 8 and Krsmanovic 6 out 9. 12 points from the total 25 from attacking middles. Not that bad

Chipp do you have a live stats page or are you keeping count yourself?! Because CEV page doesn't seem to be updating

Edit: Sorry, it is now

Despite their limitations, good to see Dutch team today. Playing with a lot of spirit!

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Antonijevic as the starting setter.
Vesovic and Malesevic as OHs.

now Ognjenovic is playing and I just started to watch..Antonijevic was playing so badly??

Oooooooohhhh NED I wish they had won that set. Flier is playing much better than yesterday and also Laura is...less bad
Serbia is lucky to have at least two great players on every position, except OH currently. Both setters are great, Starovic had some good actions when she entered, both liberos are really good so it's no problem that Popovic is not there...

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now Ognjenovic is playing and I just started to watch..Antonijevic was playing so badly??

She wasn't bad, but Serbian setters have limited options today, relying mostly on middles. But Malesevic is starting to pick up now, she's already doing a good job in defence.

That was a narrow escape for Serbia in 2nd set.

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Did you find Polish team so weak before this match?

Of course as a Pole I will say that we can win Unfortunately I don't know what other users can say, although I predict that no one believe in POL

For many years Russian style of game has been very convenient for us. Although Russia is among top world teams POL often was able to beat them.

We can achieve a good result if we use our strong points: serve and block. Skowrońska, Werblińska, Bednarek are really good servers and if they do their best Russia must be in trouble If we destroy Russian reception we would score in block then .This is our hope. Unfortunately Werblińska doesn't serve so good as she did some years ago. Today she comitted too many errors.

And one more thing is that reception is our touchy point. NED didn't serve well. We received quite good even if only Maj and Werblińska were receiving, Żebrowska and Skowrońska are involved only in some rotations. I'm afraid that Russia can destroy our game by their serve

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it is not that I considered Poland weak but I think that they have lost a lot due to Glinka's retirement..she is a world class player and substituting her is extremely difficult! comparing the other nations I thought that these would have caused some difficulties, considering that Zebrowska is not a perfect receiver and Kosek doesn't convince me in spiking! the only great spiker is Skowronska and partly Werblinska and Ithought this could not be sufficient against a trio like Gamova-Sokolova-Kosheleva or Kozuch-Grun-Brinker...also NED was to me a bit stronger but they proved not yesterday! I'm personally happy for that because I really like Poland!!
talking about today, I think that reception and defense must work 100%, block as yesterday!! Go Poland!!!