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This one is a little over my head, but I want to try and eek out more coverage and fun for SEA stuff. I'll let folks more knowledgeable than me explain this one as we go
I hope we have some live streams for folks bored with watching VNL
Whose smart idea is to split 11 teams into 4 groups?🤦
She is already one of the most disliked players and now she is bitching about turkey and Brazil?🤦 Very smart
Display MoreI hope we will see some changes in the roster for Week 2. Some of the girls need rest.
I want to see what Neriman, Meliha, Buse, Sıla, Ayça, Melis, Yasemin, Ayçin could do.
My roster for Week 2
Setter
Buse Ünal
Sıla Çalışkan
Opposite
Melissa Vargas
Ebrar Karakurt
Outside Hitter
Neriman Özsoy
Meliha Diken
İlkin Aydın
Saliha Şahin
Orta Oyuncu
Yasemin Güveli
Aslı Kalaç
Kübra Akman
Ayçin Akyol
Libero
Ayça Aykaç
Melis Yılmaz
Your roster makes sense but I would keep Cansu, she needs to work with Vargas and Neriman since she never played with them before. Buse didn't play much this season but I still have hopes for her. She could be a better sub than elif since she is a good blocker, server and played with Vargas before
Italy surely will include the rest of starting players as bosetti,pietrini,chirichella and if antropova is eligible,her also
Meanwhile serbia not only stevanovic could be added and I doubt she would make a lot of difference
Except antropova, none of these had a good season so although they are better than current line up, I doubt they will make a huge difference for Italy unless they improve dramatically in a month. They need to win two of china, Brazil and Japan and all other teams which they are favorite against
Serbia will get Boskovic in 3rd week, even if they win all their games in 3rd week (including china), they still need to win 3 out of 4 games (Brazil, Japan, Thailand, Croatia) next week that's why I said they might miss quarters. It will also depends on whether many teams will beat each other or favourites will sweep their opponents.
One of Serbia or Italy will probably miss quarterfinals considering the upcoming schedule
Very good match! Congratulations to USA, Karch is criticized a lot but this guy has a system and all the newbies follow that system independent of whoever there is. Their defense was amazing today, they played like Japan at defense 👏👏 Wong is not my favorite libero but I should give it to her, she played very well at defense although she was shaky at reception. Also I like skinner, she finds very smart ways to score with oos balls. Lanier is not it though. She lacks fundamentals. No way she will make Paris roster. I didn't like middles neither, blocking was particularly bad at this game.
Big kudos to Santarelli, this guy is a magician with a lot of tricks under his sleeve!
he made so many good moves with substitutions, it seemed like he always had a backup plan, which was deeply missed while Guidetti was the coach🤦 I don't know what kind of fortune federation offered to Santa but so far he deserves every of his salary😂
Ebrar deserves a big applause, she didn't make it a ego problem once she lost her starting spot to Vargas, and she did her best as outside although she didn't play train for this position for 2-3 years. Her passing is of course rusty but she is not like Mihajlovic or Plak at reception. If Santa insists this lineup, I'm sure Ebrar would improve game by game. Bringing simge in is also good move once Ebrar gets shaky. Elif needs to step up her game, it seems like there will be a lot of double subs this summer, she really needs to bring her A game.
Big applause to middles as well. Both Kübra and Aslı were excommunicated by Guidetti for many years. They made a great comeback. I also like that Santarelli has the balls to sub Zehra when she doesn't play well, which is something Guidetti has never done.
Last big applause to Gizem örge, after simge's lackluster season, Gizem shone like a diamond 😍 it seems like she missed NT jersey a lot. She was brilliant at both reception and defense.
All in all, independent of results turkey played very good volleyball this week. I look forward to seeing others like Saliha, Neriman and Yasemin playing next week's🙏
Serving pressure of turkey is insane. Really Fenerbahçe vibes so far, and I'm loving it!
Do ya'll think the presence of Vargas has made Ebrar mature a bit? Ebrar is playing like a good soldier
She is not the only one anymore, competition is always good for players. I'm sure Simge will also improve her game now that Gizem is in the roster
Turkey is playing like Fenerbahçe, will Santa gamble and play with neriman-ebrar-vargas next week?😂
Omg vargas's spike height was insane with that backrow attack
Wong can't defend any attacks from vargas
Drews has a weird footwork, as if she will get injured any minute. Is it because of Hancock's inconsistent setting?
Thanks to gui we couldn't use Aslı, Kübra, Gizem and Neriman. First 3 proved how useful they could be. Hoping to see Neriman prove Herself next week too🙏
Asli trying to block rettke, looks so cute😂
Ebrar is not bad at reception so far
I liked O'Neal so far, I even read her story and one can't do anything but sympathize for her.
What's her story? Mind forwarding?
why is Hancock not jumpserving?
Well she's defending almost everything Vargas and Karakurt are throwing at her.
She is still shaky at reception, Gizem is outplaying her
JWO showing why she won that MVP award in Tokyo
Does she really? I find her performance quite lackluster this week
Skinner is doing very good with block out attacks, she attacked with many oos balls
