About Kovar, why is he out of NT, I love him!!!!! Has his level dropped a lot?
Men's World Championship 2018
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About Kovar, why is he out of NT, I love him!!!!! Has his level dropped a lot?
he was tested positive on doping test
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Display MoreItaly's math was awful. We faced 2 strong teams (Russia and Serbia) and we lost twice.
This team just doesn't work.
Giannelli is too young and he ALWAYS plays bad in the most important matches. It's easy to play well when you are facing a poor opponent
but the great players come out in the match that means something.Lanza = do I really need to say something about him?
Junatorena = maybe he was thinking about his newborn daughter, he wasn't with the head on the game
Zaytsev = it looks like Serbia worked just on how to block and defend him
The middles = with the poor reception, Giannelli couldn't use them a lot, but they scored some interesting blocks
As I said a lot of times, our problem is that we can't play with Lanza. He is a mess. SInce we don't have Parodi or Kovar, we should play with Zaytesv as a outside hitter along with Juantorena. Nelli should play as a OPP (but I think both Sabbi or vettori would have been a better choise)
Maruotti showed better thinks than Lanza and he should have played more IMO. I also think yesterday Bara should have come in the court way before than in the 3rd set.
PS: Ravens, I can't watch it on TV because I'm abroad...
Vettori. Seriously?
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he was tested positive on doping test
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Kovar was already out anyway for his own choice.
[Anyway, it's not clear how this doping thing will go, but it was cannabis, so he did something illegal, but probably not with the intention of alterate his sport results]
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Vettori. Seriously?
I like Parodi more than Vettori but I guess both would have been just a tad bit better than Nelli. I also questioned the absence of Antonov and was told he was not chosen based on some technical issues! I think Blengini is quite predictable and made the team look predictable too. I would have thought Gianni or Bernardi would be better choices even beating Brazil in the gold medal match in Rio. I just don't have a good feeling about the match with Poland!
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Parodi and Vettori play in different role, though...
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First match is going down the wire. The last rally is insane. RUS badly needs this one. Hope this remains as good if not better than their last match.
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Renan has been suspended for the match of tomorrow against USA. I dont know if you remember that during a point in the tie-break a ball rolled into the court. I thought it was a mistake by a ballkid. However, Renan was the one who, on purpose, threw the ball in in order to stop the rally...
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Haven't seen Maxim tip a lot, he seems unsure of himself at times
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So Sokolov is an OH now
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No way to turn Berezkho into a libero now that Kliuka is down! Bad timing for RUS.
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USA is looking really good. Russia can't defend those bics in particular and USA takes the 1st set!
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No way to turn Berezkho into a libero now that Kliuka is down! Bad timing for RUS.
Kliuka seems okay now. Worse case I think Mikhaylov can play as non-receiving OH
UPDATE: Actually it was Volkov that Mikhaylov replaced
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McDonnell is slowly becoming a dependable MB. Or OH for that matter lol. No seriously his agility has improved and could compare head-to-head with Smith.
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OMG Leonardo, that's orrible!
Anyway, until 20 USA-Rus was a wonderful set. I really enjoyed it. After the 20 Russia lost it a bit, but mostly because of USA merits.
Kiluka seems to be all right, I wonder if Berezkho has phisical problems or if the actually wanted Sokolov as subs for the second line.
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Russia's biggest problem is their reception, neither OH is reliable. Due to poor reception, their MBs barely have chance to spike.
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Mikhaylov passing as OH and Poletaev in as OP.
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Parodi and Vettori play in different role, though...
Ah, my bad.. thanks..
