In addition, the best for Turkey would be to confirm this victory against Italy tomorrow. The current WCH runner up hasnt showed a good level despite of crushing Russia. Yes, they are still out of rhythm and Egonu was an error machine, but I highly doubt Egonu will turn into beast mode from one day to another. It still might take some more matches to reach her Conegliano level again.
Turkey has all the the weapons of this Italian weakness and for me, the key would be to take Pietrini out of the match (serve target). Once she is out, I dont see anybody who could replace her (Sylla injured, Sorokaite
). Maybe in that moment Mazzanti would regret to not have called Gennari. Of course, it would be better to take Bosetti out, but she has more experienced and it is more solid. Just look how she dealt pretty well with the horrible Malinov mistakes, even scoring with the left hand.
Only thing that was missing at Italian side to completely crush Russia and to be on highest level is Egonu not making mistakes and service errors. Everything else was on point. (Minus Malinov, but girls are literally used to so even that was not the problem)
i was looking so much forward to see full japanese team against italy and serbia.
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