So it’s known already that USA is 5th, Turkey is 6th, Serbia 7th and DR 8th.
If Brazil wins for 3 points we have Brazil DR, Italy Serbia, China Turkey and Poland USA.
Brazil will surely give their best to play DR but Poland for sure prefers to play USA than Serbia… tough call for Poland haha.
The true pool of death is Pool A, but C is a decent pool. Pool B seems to be the one that should be worried when they start facing quality teams tbh.
Yeah especially that Brazil and Poland are playing each other today 
number 2 and 3 teams in the world
It’s very probable that Poland will finish 4th or 5th even if they lose 0-3 or 1-3 and USA has a high chance of finishing 4th or 5th as well so could be potentially another Poland USA match on paper 
seems like they play each other all the time..
As of now my predictions are (based on Brazil beating Poland, China beating Serbia and Italy beating Turkey):
Brazil - Dominican Rep
Italy - Serbia
China - Turkey
Poland - USA
Japan wasnt at all trashed by Poland. They lost 1-3 (25-20, 22-25, 23-25, 26-28). In any parallel universe that score is been trashed.
Trashed are the scores against Brazil. They had some set points in order to force a tie-break and with that, over passing DOM in points. (regardless if they lose that tie-break or not).
To be honest I would attribute this more to Poland being nervous and shaky than Japan’s great plays. They made so many UEs just like against Brazil but Poland was unable to capitalize on them.
It’s a day of boring matches it seems..
Poland definitely dark horse of the tournament, can't wait to see what they can do in quarterfinals, but generally very dangerous team
depending on who they draw it might be interesting. Certainly China doesn’t fit them, but with USA or Italy it might be close match.
So afaik brazil should be 1st ranked team in combined ranking for quarterfinals right? They have two 3-0 matches won
if they beat Poland 3-0 or 3-1 then yes if Poland wins in 3 or 4 probably it’s gonna be Poland
Is the quarters same as before Top 4 then draw lots?
no, 1st plays 8th, 2nd plays 7th etc
Just the question what for Japan qualifies to quarterfinal? To get the same treatment from Brazil as today?
on Sunday it can be interesting game for polish fans
I hope that poles will not f*** up against Brazil
Unless Lukasik and Stysiak show up it’s gonna be hard for Poland…
I’m pretty close to say that all of quarterfinalists may become medalists at this point. Mostly the matchup and the shape on this specific date will matter but there seems to be no clear favourite so far.
Also even top spot or second spot after group phase doesn’t give anything as this team may play Serbia, USA or China as 7th/8th team. Quarterfinals should really be great.
USA wouldn’t work even with Egonu as OPP. They have no firepower from OHs. It would make sense to play with Larson and Cook if their reception was perfect but it’s far.
i think both teams should be happy with the result. NED was expected to loose 3-0 or 3-1 before the game, and TUR hast managed to win considering injuries and they played no friendly game to see how fit they are.
Injury of whom? Only Zehra was missing in starting six
Tonight only 68 balls to Vargas, against Italy we may get to 90 
What a choke by NED
I feel bad for Vargas. She carried this team last seasons but she can’t be scoring 30 or 40 points each match. She needs some help.
I don’t think that are nerves really. Karakurt has been pretty error prone lately and Hande is out of shape. As usual everything is in Vargas hands just she is not getting that many sets.
Czyrnianska walked in for 3 points and scored an attack, dig and ace
Korneluk and Smarzek really saved this match in the 2nd set
She called those pushes/tips as lifting instead of double touch. More importantly, even she herself wasn’t consistent at all, some looked completely fine were called, while some other similar actions weren’t. And I have never seen a setter dump that Marte did was called as lifting in my entire life. It’s ridiculous to say “in fact” that rubbish referee did the “right things”. She should be banned for a long time already.
Maybe but yesterday in Italy Brazil match also such plays were called.
So they should decide if they call it always or when.
