World Cup 2019

stop serving Jaeschke

Christenson is finally using Anderson. 8-10 balls in two sets doesn't seemed a lot to me for an opposite.

Palonsky is cute.

Christenson is barely using Anderson again.

I CANNOT at Saeta serving Danani.

Loser and Ramos with 16 pts each. USA have to stop atleast 2 pts of those to win.

Omg at Saeta. What a mistake.

I have always pointed out, but I will do it once again: Mati Sanchez would be one of the best setters of world if he were 10 cms taller.

His tecnique and skills are just superb. Even more than De Cecco. But, unfortunately, he is too short for top men vball.

But I do love he is showing to some many "small" teenagers that they can play professioally eventhough that height disadvantage.

Ok, Argentina pulls some crazy win every once in a while but this one is definitely the craziest.

The shorty (mostly) substitutes winning against the giant americans even while gifting 32 errors (!) to them.

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Saeta playing Opp

OT

i wanna see Siki play again. He was part of the FIVB U19 Boys' Youth World Champion

Played with Uros, AA and Jovovic

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Kupono Fei still playing as OH.

Funny. Argentina without DeCecco and Conte, still beat USA.

USA is missing Taylor now.

Great win by Argentina. USA dig themselves a hole and it was just too much. Garrett M. did not play well at all (neither did Micah) and that put them down early. Thomas Jaeschke was much better when he replaced Garrett. But all credit to Argentina. Great serve receive and they hit around the blocks.

AUS losing to Egypt 1-3 (22-25, 25-21, 23-25, 18-25). Like always, Australia play good against Giants and perform horrible against average teams. I don't know why they're unstable like this, but still I won't lose my hope to see a good performance from them against the top teams.

Argentina upsetting USA 3-2 (25-20, 25-21, 19-25, 21-25, 12-15). I must say I didn't expect it. I didn't watch the game because I thought it'd be an easy match for U.S. However, it came out to be FIRE! Damn, seems I've lost too much!

Russia winning over Iran 3-1 (25-21, 25-18, 24-26, 25-22). The same old squad from Iran loses to Russia's C team. As I expected, no matter whether it's the main team or not, Russia is always capable to defeat teams like that.

Poland swept through Tunisia (25-16, 25-23, 25-12). Well, the African side will probably end up in the last ranks as always. Unlike the second set, they didn't seem to know how to play volleyball.

Brazil crushing Canada (25-14, 25-22, 25-14). I'm not surprised, but I expected more from Canada. They didn't have much to show except in the second set.

Currently, Japan is on fire with Ishikawa and Nishida playing superbly. However, Italy's serve is putting them under a lot of pressure. How long can Japan keep doing this great performance in the reception line?

My prediction for the second day:

Egypt 1 Iran 3

Tunisia 0 Argentina 3

Canada 1 Russia 3

Italy 1 USA 3

Australia 1 Brazil 3

Poland 3 Japan 2

great work

Japan 3 - 0 Italy

Japan gets the game thanks to Ishikawa's spike and block in the final points.

I watched Russia play against Iran, and Ilya Vlasov's attacking and blocking potential is really amazing. At times he looks youthful, but he has a lot of potential to become the new Musersky. He has a very strong offense and he catches the ball far above the opponent's block.

Seems like Brazil is really serious in winning this tournament. Happy to see Leal there but at the cost of Douglas... I am conflicted.

I wish Douglas could play more...he didn't even enter the court today

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Japan 3 - 0 Italy

Blengini better send Grbic some flowers and chocolate as he might have been already fired had Serbia showed up at the first OQT in Bari.