Display MoreNetherland - Netherland need a power hitter who can help Flier. as I wrote yesterday, both Grotheus and Stam-Pilon are more like receivers than attackers. Wensink has been weak in attack...hopefully she will be in a great shape asap. I can't stop thinking that Buijs's absence is a damn big pity. anyway,not bad so far. I seriously wanted them to win against Russia.
the most positive thing for Dutch team is Dijkema's great performance. hope she keeps going like this.
Poland - Great,so far. but I doubt they can play against such strong teams. both Radecka and Wolosz are playing quite well and Poland's queen Kasia Skowronska is back. It's possible that her shape is not 100%,but she's helping the team a lot. Maj is unbelieveable and Kaczorowska's performences were great, I hope she continues. also hopefully Okuniewska improves her attack. her attacks are usually very predictable. Bednarek is so great both in attack and block on the other hand.
Germany - Let's see what they will do against Serbia. but so far...not bad! Brinker played extremely well against Ukraine. Kozuch is giving her best and Germany's MBs are really strong. hope Weiss sets the balls more to MBs.
Croatia - I'm so damn sad about their result. They were just unlucky to be in the strongest group. Poljak is unbelieveable. Topic is a big surprise too, although she played bad yesterday against Azerbajdan. but I still believe Croatia is worthy of notice. They just need to play as a team for a long time. Usic and Grbac need to come back...please
emil you are right about croatia ! they really have a nice team, and when senna is included aswell, maybe they can be dangerous. but yesterday it was all in their hands to win the match, i had a feeling that they did not take it too seriously in the last set !