Posts by StefanS

Quote from avid

Vafikbank beat Stuttgart 3-1 (25-21, 25-27, 25-23, 25-23) in their training match.

I don't see any stats

but I see Cansu/Egonu, Gabi/Bajema, Kubra, Ayca in a photo

meanwhile looks like Stuttgart may have used Bongaerts/Rivers, Lee/Segura, Timmerman/?, Roosa

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It's an honour, that VakifBank is willing to make a friendly against Stuttgart and a great achievement for Stuttgart, to win a set at all. Stuttgarts team is a threat to any club team in the world with the sole two exceptions of VakifBank and Conegliano IMHO.

At the end Turkey weighted the German team, and there was just not enough...

Quote from Volleygirl17

Gray, you didn't need to have your monster game against Thailand, out of all teams.

I can assure you, she hurted Germany also a lot.

Quote from Matthias

Big win for Canada Besides all the Winzer memes, they have indeed arrived at being a very competitive team on highest level. Their bench is not exactly deep and they could use a better libero, but other than that their starting six is really solid overall with King, Gray and Van Ryk standing out

Honestly, I would not have betted even a cent on Canada against Thailand

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Germany lost every piece of organisation in that 4th set They could be glad to even win some sets in 2nd round but I don't see them winning against any team from Pool B.

Exit of Lippmann to the beach can't be compensated for now.

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This match is just very sad because the moments Kenya do well it's not just good, it's excellence, I was so prepared to go buy Kenya flags and support them in the 2nd round lol They just need experience, keep going Kenya You got a new fan! It's a very young team, Paris 2024 will be crazy

As long Africa can't overcome their structural deficits they will be never competitive against other continental federations.

Quote from fire_cai_bin

Not sure if Germany can afford to lose any more games

Especially Germany can't afford to lose too much power for the decisive match against Canada for place 3, because against USA it is hopeless in reality. Therefore the strategy is not to try hard but to spare strength for tomorrow.

Quote from quadxel

None anymore for WCh (both M and W) except for the team timeouts.

They were essentially replaced by the video challenge possibility.

Today is also interesting, if Germany will be just prey for Serbia, or can they do notable resistance?

The bets today are, that Cameroon has no chance at all against Puerto Rico and I would be surprised, if Kenya will do much better.

Quote from ThomasHH

Meanwhile confirmed by the team.

I think, it is safe to say, that the pool A will be reigned by Conegliano, B by Monza, C by VakifBank, D by Fenerbahce and E by Eczacibasi. So it seems to be relatively fairly distributed, for example Stuttgart should have no problem to be second after Fenerbahce, but Potsdam is completely lost with bad luck against VakifBank (I hope it will not be a traumatic experience for them) and Novara.

Drawing of lots of pool stage of Champions League is tomorrow, Friday 16. September 2022 18 o'clock CEST:

Quote from ThomasHH

Münster and Wiesbaden wil played the WEVZA Tournament from 13 to 17 October in Chieri

Wiesbaden played in a Group with Cannes and Lugano. Münster with Chieri and Cheseaux.

The Winner of the Tournament takes a Spot in the Challenge Cup

Chieri is the clear cut favorite.

Quote from volleySrb

Very bad game by Serbia, bad receptions was big problem, also they didn't serve good with is very strange.

Opp Milica Vidacic is not in form, and Mihajlovic cannot do it alone.

Remember, when you are tired you will receive worse than usual, and especially Grozer and Ziegenbalg exterted a lot of service pressure on Serbia.

As Matthias wrote, the Serbians were too tired and maybe also disappointed, to play on their normal level - the German girls used this rare chance for any German NT to win a medal.

Wow, the Bronze medal match is really one on equal height - for me it is impossible to predict, which team will win... remember in pool stage this duel ended in tie-break with 16:14 for Serbia... a slight advantage for Germany to win the first set in light of the long semi for Serbia and the short for Germany now. And yes, Leana is a true Grozer attack player, you can see it in service, attack attitude and angels and braveness at the net.

Nice fight from German team in the third set, but Italy was just too strong for them.

Yes, as expected Italy is playing incredibly for this age level, German girls can't cope with it

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It's unusual to see a German team getting a good result at youth level, but I suppose having a Grozer is never wrong

But I fear, the Italian team will defeat the German in the semis in a devastating manner - they have so many more good players and they are so much better educated at this age...