Amazing week from young Turkish team!👏👏👏👏👏
Santarelli: very smart roster composition. He gave opportunities to everyone and let them show what they are capable of. I like that he always combined youngsters with a few veterans like Hande, aslı, simge etc. with this way, young players dont crumble under pressure. He get 4th win as his 44th birthday gift today
Setters: Elif isn't at her best shape but I think she played decent. To me, Dilay is the shining star of the tournament. She should be in the roster with cansu next week so that Elif can also take some time off.
Liberos: Simge was good, same for Eylül. I'm happy that Santa gave up on Ayça and looking for alternatives. I'm not fully sold on Eylül yet but she played decent
Opp: Carutasu was the only real opp we had this week (Derya, yaprak and Ayşe played as Opp in double subs) carutasu had a fantastic performance in china game. She showed up when it mattered. She was decent in other games as well. She is totally a different type of Opp than Vargas. She has good ball control, her tips and roll shots worked really well. Also she get a lot of points from serves and blocks.
Middles: I was a bit doubtful with asli's presence in the roster but today's game showed us that an experience player like her was needed to step up at clutch times, her blocks were so good during our comeback from 24-20
Deniz uyanık was another revelation of the tournament, she was great at blocking every set she played and scored a lot with attack as well. Berka was okay but I think she didn't show her full potential yet.
OHs: the position made me happy the most! Hande totally redeemed herself after a bad start . She was one of the best outsides of first week (if not the best) not only her offense was insane but also her defense from position 6 is at a very high level (I would say comparable to Sylla/bosetti). Yaprak was amazing, she is such a fighter, she finds a way to score even with bad sets/OOS sets. Her reception has room for improvement but I like her attitude on court and 'volleyball IQ'. Saliha was very good too, she received very well and scored with a good ratio. Derya got the least chance to play due to her injury but at first game she was decent.
Very curious who will play in Istanbul at next leg. My pick would be:
Cansu-Dilay
Vargas-Ebrar
Ilkin-Yaprak-Hande-Meliha
Jack-Zehra-Deniz-Berka
Gizem-Eylul
Im actually fine to play with same roster and let A team to play 3rd tournament and finals but since turkey is hosting, I'm sure federation would push the iconic players like Vargas, Zehra, Ebrar etc. I hope eda is skipping whole vnl