France were very hungry.
In tie break 9-12 then 2 match points for Poland.
VNL 2024 Men’s
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That was a great match!
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Poland made their SF rival play yesterday so they can have less than 20hrs to recover and play the next match and not even with that and the home court advantage, they could make into the final. Love that!
With this system you have always 2 teams playing day by day. At least France and Slovenia play at the same hours.
It should be as in 2023 when all teams had at least 1 day break.
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With this system you have always 2 teams playing day by day. At least France and Slovenia play at the same hours.
It should be as in 2023 when all teams had at least 1 day break.
They could've at least had them play the same say just as Italy and Poland in the women's. But they wanted to get their opponent tired so they have that as an advantage, which they didn't need bc they are a good team.
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They could've at least had them play the same say just as Italy and Poland in the women's. But they wanted to get their opponent tired so they have that as an advantage, which they didn't need bc they are a good team.
Probably yes, but again, 2 teams will be tired with this system. Friday should be a day off after 1/4. At least Poland didn’t set France-Italy as the evening match.
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They could've at least had them play the same say just as Italy and Poland in the women's. But they wanted to get their opponent tired so they have that as an advantage, which they didn't need bc they are a good team.
I wouldn’t make Poland a villain here tbh. If you want to blame someone, blame FIVB for creating finals’ schedule this way. Of course hosts will pick a favorable schedule for themselves when they have only a few options to choose from. That’s an advantage for being the host and every country would choose what’s best for them. You’re mentioning women’s VNL but clearly forgetting the Polish women’s team was playing an evening match and then the next day an afternoon match, that’s even worse scheduling than what happened to France here. So yeah, the real blame is on FIVB for not giving a day off between QFs and SFs
Congrats to France and Japan, I was totally not expecting these two teams as finalists but props to them and hopefully it won’t be a one-sided final! -
I wouldn’t make Poland a villain here tbh. If you want to blame someone, blame FIVB for creating finals’ schedule this way. Of course hosts will pick a favorable schedule for themselves when they have only a few options to choose from. That’s an advantage for being the host and every country would choose what’s best for them. You’re mentioning women’s VNL but clearly forgetting the Polish women’s team was playing an evening match and then the next day an afternoon match, that’s even worse scheduling than what happened to France here. So yeah, the real blame is on FIVB for not giving a day off between QFs and SFs
Congrats to France and Japan, I was totally not expecting these two teams as finalists but props to them and hopefully it won’t be a one-sided final!No one is saying the FIVB isn’t at fault here but Poland clearly gave their potential SF rival a shifty schedule making them play the match the next day after theirs in the hopes that they would be tired and gaining an advantage from that. They could've easily had Fra - Ita play in the same day, especially considering that the other bracket wasn't as competitive.
In regards to women's, atvleast Italy - USA was scheduled the same day that Pol vs Tur and although there was a small 3 hr diff advantage, it wasn't Italy's fault that they went five and that Egonu and company swept USA in 3.
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Sorry for team with best shape it doesn't matter- see WCH 2018 in Italy. Poland had to play four or five games day after day incl. SF and final /with USA and Brazil/
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Such Japan can be real Contender to Olympic Glory
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Ok, I see that here we had a silence... what can I say? Poland played much better yesterday fortunately, meanwhile France caught momentum and got title, congratulations
To sum up, let me share individual awards - MVP and best roster:
MVP: Antoine Brizard
S: Antoine Brizard
OP: Jean Patry
OH: Yuki Ishikawa, Tomasz Fornal
MB: Nicolas Le Goff, Jakub Kochanowski
L: Tomohiro Yamamoto
So we have 3 players from France and 2 from Japan and Poland.
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Display MoreOk, I see that here we had a silence... what can I say? Poland played much better yesterday fortunately, meanwhile France caught momentum and got title, congratulations
To sum up, let me share individual awards - MVP and best roster:
MVP: Antoine Brizard
S: Antoine Brizard
OP: Jean Patry
OH: Yuki Ishikawa, Tomasz Fornal
MB: Nicolas Le Goff, Jakub Kochanowski
L: Tomohiro Yamamoto
So we have 3 players from France and 2 from Japan and Poland.
Jakub 3 matches = 18 points
Huber 1 match = 18 points
If you're gonna give an extra award to Poland just because the host was Poland, at least make it makes sense.
Loauti instead of Fornal and Huber for Jakub and Ishikawa MVP would've been fair.
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So you didn’t see Olympics final from Rio when Wallace caught Juantorena the same way? But I think that it was by accident then while here Podrascanin did it deliberately.
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