pretty sure host (seeded #1) has to play from lowest ranked to highest ranked. (#8 -> #2)
Such rule would always make the host have the toughest schedule, no country will bribe bid to be the host then lol
Posts by KVB
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7 matches in 9 days! That’s tough, even though 4 out of 7 are relatively “easy” for the contenders. And surprisingly Japan puts both most difficult opponents on the last two consecutive days for themselves, didn’t they always arrange the schedule that would be most favorable to themselves when they’re the host in the past?
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Egonu has won the CL as well as the MVP 3 times, each time with a different team. It’s a record already.
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And MVP is David Smith!!! Well deserved award
I’m super happy for him!!!
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Considering the fact that Zaksa has lost some of their most important players every time they won the CL, (Toniutti & Zatorski after the first season and Semeniuk after the second), and the huge budget of Perugia, they still managed to beat all the best teams and won this most prestigious tournament for the third straight years, it’s really a huge achievement.
Especially this year they had a really rough start before the arrival of Bednorz causing them to have the most difficult path to advance since the playoff stage. Their victories over the Italian teams were epic.
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Congrats Zaksa for the CL hat trick!!
And Sammelvuo finally breaking his curse of losing in finalssssss lol
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It was a gutsy move for Janusz to set Kaczmarek when facing opponent’s set point at 23:24, but it was a dumb decision to set to him twice in a roll just because Bednorz missed once, and not to mention both of those sets were poor sets.
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Kaczmarek is still the same Kaczmarek…
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JSW needs Toniutti to return and play at his best to keep their chance alive. Their Finnish back up setter is simply not at this level, over half of his sets were awful. They will lose quickly if they have to continue the match with him.
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Toniutti’s consecutive poor sets to 4 are big gifts for Zaksa.
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He said that Vakif's president regrets letting Egonu go; 🤣
LOL
Thanks Ze for confirming this
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Kaczmarek is just awful
Does Polish NT really need this defensive OP as your backup?
I’d rather go with the 3 OHs system, Poland is loaded with great OHs anyway.
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some italian fans say there are huge crowd of Polish fans entering after the women finale. The ticker should be for two match included but men volleyball fans don't really into women game so didn't show up in the last game.
It should always be two separated events. Now it’s tragic
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What a game!
ZAKSA just needs a little bit from Huber and Kaczmarek. JSW is playing better coral game.
I’m happy for Huber to start in such important game, but he was doing nothing other than errorsss, both at the net and from the service line
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Mendez made a huge mistake not to reverse the double sub at 22:24 with Zaksa serving and Hadrava turned to the backrow, giving them such great chance to come back.
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The crowd seems so much more motivated than in the women’s final.
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Zaksa in red jersey looks so not Zaksa
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This will be a challenging season for Thompson. I mean after haak and egonu. She will cary mostly the team. I think she can and she will improve with gio.
IF Thompson can stay healthy, I’m confident that she can do well in Vakif, where they still have Gabi that Thompson won’t have to carry the team like she did in Milano, with Sylla and Orro lol
But that’s a big “IF”. She seems to be quite injury prone and I’m unsure if her body can hold up well.
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meanwhile Tijana with 15 kills and 13 errors. She is still great and just had a bad day but her fans need to accept that you can't always blame everyone but her when it comes to matches like this.
I mean she is a superstar ofc they will rely on her, look at Egonu today. But today she was the worst player on their court (after Maja for me)
I don’t blame her, it was clear she couldn’t swing as she wanted due to her back injury. It was especially obvious in the latter sets, she couldn’t even fully scratch her arms backwards like she’s used to when approaching for a swing.
It’s on Ferhat, it’s not day one she’s dealing with this injury, but he has no second plan at all and not even trying anything when losing the TL finals. After a week it’s still the same. -
Can’t wait to see the stat sheet. What a match!
https://www-old.cev.eu/Competi…tics.aspx?ID=64313&setN=0
Egonu: 37/57 (65%), 1 ace 2 blocks