Vakifbank has no chance for F4 in ECL nor Turkish league title with this awfull system, setter and coaching performance. After Guidetti had at last realized Nikolic was an easy target by Fenerbahce's serves he tried to keep her away from receiving and used Gizem to tolarate her but Gizem has no capability to handle all back-court by herself so she made many errors. Vakifbank could pass the ball to the setter in only 8 of 23 receptions in third set. Thats one of the main reasons why that set score was so terrible for Vakifbank. And Gozde is not a right choice for the team. She is not a bad setter but not enough for this level. She made easy passing errors even when receptions are acceptable rate. She has big timing problems with attackers (especially middle blockers). Neslihan got flu four days ago and she looked very tired today but Guidetti kept her persistently on the court so she played very bad (%22 kill rate). But he had chance to replace her with Nikolic. So that could be also a solution for reception problems changing Nikolic's position someone else like Gozde or Guldeniz but he didnt use his options enough. Bahar also was very terrible. I think she needed to be replaced by Duygu long time ago but Guidetti didnt choice it. I dont know why Guidetti didnt think to use Duygu but she must play I guess. So I think Guidetti cant run the team good enough and it's very hard Vakifbank gets the goals with his coaching.
As for Fenerbahce, they looked very stressed in the first set especially Naz but they made to get through a way to come back and win the game. They didnt attack today at their regular rate and made many easy errors in the first set but they kept receptions stabile most of the game. Even they might won the first set if the referee hadnt given a wrong block-out decision when the gap was 3 points. Fenerbahce has self-confidence players (like Osmokrovic, Gamova) who can set the game and attack bravely even if the setter misses the ball. Vakifbank's players wait the setter get the ball and set the game even when the setter is not at right position. This is one of the most important differencies between both teams and very big advantage in such a chaotic game like this one. Nihan Yeldan injured her hands but she preferred to play. She was good though. I think she is getting improve thanks to Alice and Osmokrovic help in receiving. She had to handle receptions all by herself last year in Vakifbank so she was one of the most criticized players of the team's failure.
One more note: Alice blom was targeted by a hard spike of Poljak in second or third set. The ball hit her face in very close distance. Her face looked very bad and her nose was bleeding. I dindt think that she managed to get back to the game but she did it and played the rest of the game with a taped nose. You can see it on the following picture.
