I watched match and .... agree Germany was much more motivated but please read what said Terzic :
"Maybe it’s good
for us that we lost, because now we can focus on the match versus
Romania and, hopefully, versus Poland in the semifinals; I think we have
a good chance to win."
That's what's written on CEV site. But that's a shortened and not very accurate version of Terzic's speech. Terzic's point was lost in translation and they made it sound like he was making connection between losing to Germany and (possibly) playing against Poland in QF, which is not what he was saying.
What he actually said you can hear here http://www.ossrb.org/main/fono/11/zterzic.WMA
Terzic said that Serbian players were under pressure on and off court, and that maybe the defeat to Germany was good thing, that could help take the pressure off of the players and make them realise that it's all part of sport and that you can lose even if you are a host.
Than he said:"The path we must undergo now is maybe more difficult, maybe not, we must play against Romania and if we win we will meet Poland on our road to SF.On one hand it will be difficult to beat Romania and especially Poland, but on the other hand, these are teams we'we been beating often lately, so I don't see why we couldn't beat them now. ''
I really don't understand the theories about losing on purpose to Germany so that we would get to play against Russia in SF. We are not through to SF yet and Poland is more difficult opponent than Czech Rep. would be in QF.And the way we are playing, we could very well lose to Poland and ''go home'' before semis. I am sure Terzic 's not thinking about SF. He must fathom how to get us through QF first.
I think if they could make better use of free balls we could have a game here...
At least Turkey didn't lose a set or even win with a score 32-30 
In his theory he was claiming that Spain will beat Turkey 3-0 
