Volleyball final six women broadcast. Roller coaster for Marichev team

04.12.201927.05.2017

Traditionally Russian have always been considered winter views sports, but also in summer our representatives regularly took leading positions. But the current summer did not particularly please us with bright events. The national football team performed in such a way that neither journalists, nor experts, nor players and fans want to remember its game. Volleyball, which has long been considered our discipline, is gradually ceasing to be such. At least the national men's team is making every effort to do so. For the second year in a row, Russia will not be represented in the main tournament of the World League, as volleyball players failed to break into the Final Six following the results of the preliminary tournament.

In the meantime, the representatives of the stronger sex are once again sorting out the reasons for failures, our girls are preparing to storm final tournament World Grand Prix, where six teams will be divided into two groups.

Group 1

Brazil;
Thailand;
Russia.

Group 2

China;
Netherlands.

Group leaderboards

Group 1
No. p / p	Teams	Games	Batch Score	Glasses
1	Brazil	2	6-0	6
2	Russia	2	3-3	3
3	Thailand	2	0-6	0
Group 2
1	USA	2	6-0	6
2	Netherlands	2	3-5	2
3	China	2	2-6	1

As you can see, both trios contain obvious outsiders and teams that will fight for the first places. Thais will gain experience, and representatives of Brazil will try to beat our girls. Wards of Yuri Marichev did not meet with the Latin American team at preliminary stage, where they lost only one game - to the Serbs.

In the second group, the US and China teams are seen as favorites, while the Netherlands is likely to be content with experience and third place.

World Grand Prix Final Six: Game Schedule and Results

06.07.2016, 11:00	USA - Netherlands	3-0
06.07.2016, 14:00	Thailand - Brazil	0-3
07.07.2016, 11:00	China - Netherlands	2:3
07.07.2016, 14:00	Russia - Brazil	0:3
08.07.2016, 11:00	USA - China	3:0
08.07.2016, 14:00	Thailand - Russia	0:3

Semi-finals (9.07.2016)

Brazil - Netherlands, 11:00

Russia - USA, 14:00

RUSSIA - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 3:0 (25:21, 25:20, 25:16)

Voronkova		Lopez	7
Biryukov		Isabelle	6
Romanova		Martinez	12
Lyubushkina		meia	3
Lazarenko		frick	1
Small		Perez	1
Kutyukova	(l)	Stevens	(l)
Kotikova		N. Martinez
Ryseva		C. Martinez
Gorbachev		Santos

Scored points - 75:57 (attack - 43:26, block - 5:5, serve - 5:0, opponents' mistakes - 22:26).

For our women's team, the current League of Nations has become a real test. Some have not flown as much in their entire lives as Russians last month. Igor Kobzar recently complained that the men's team did not have time to train because of the busy schedule. But our guys have all five stages - in Europe. What can we say about the girls who managed to visit Asia twice. In the men's tournament, by the way, the Italians were also "lucky" with the draw. And if in Serbia they beat the Germans, the hosts and even the Brazilians, then in the next two rounds, which they had to play in Argentina and Japan, they lost four times to much less formidable opponents. Now they risk not getting into the Final Six.

THE LIBERO CYCLE IN THE TEAM

We have chances to reach the decisive round before final round generally remained only theoretical. With incredible hands could be thrown out of the participants of the "Final Six" of the Dutch. But for this they should not win more than one game in any of the three matches in Stuttgart, and the Russians, in turn, could not give more than a game for playing in their group. Then in terms of the number of victories we would catch up with Holland, and in terms of points we would surpass. But to believe that the vice-champions of Europe against Turkey, China and Germany will never be able to reach at least a tie-break is almost impossible.

In any case, our girls need to think not about someone's possible failures, but about their game. Moreover, against the backdrop of a wild under-recovery and a short bench, anything could happen. Even in the game against the Dominican Republic - by no means the team that should be feared.

In addition, it turned out that the composition of the Caribbean team is also not optimal. There are no number of leading players led by Betania de la Cruz, known for his performances for the Moscow "Dynamo". The main star of the current team is the 21-year-old diagonal Braylin Martinez, whose height is 2.01 m. She became the best of the Dominicans this time, but this did not help her team.

Russia played much more solidly. Constantly led in the account, only sometimes allowing rivals to approach. And she didn’t leave any special chances to her opponents. All three games were taken with a margin both in terms of the score and the game.

Of the interesting - in the third installment Main coach Russian women Vadim Pankov released at the core Anna Kotikova. And the 18-year-old striker did not get lost. She has three aces and six out of nine realized attacks at once. It was funny to see the libero Victoria Gorbachev in a playful way. Recall that Pankov during the League of Nations decided to retrain as a Libero Julia Kutyukov. It happens. Looking for a trainer. This also requires a summer commercial tournament.

POLAND AND JAPAN ARE AHEAD

The Russians coped brilliantly with their first game in Poland. However, even in the course of it, it became known that a trip to Nanjing, where the Final Six will be held, does not shine for us. The Dutch from the very first call took two sets from Turkey. Although the second game turned out to be extremely stubborn, it came to 31:29. Everything that followed was of no importance to us.

Missing the "Final Six", in turn, does not cancel tasks for two last match League of Nations - with Poland and Japan. Both of these teams, by the way, can still get around us in the table. It's definitely not worth bringing this up. It would be much nicer to go up a little.

Yes, and it would be nice to finish such a difficult tournament with three victories. And this will definitely give confidence on the eve of the autumn World Cup. Our team often misses her.

The Russian women's team at the third stage of the "Grand Prix" lost to the Serbian team and with one defeat in nine matches reached the final stage of the competition.

The final game week gave the Russian national team a long-awaited, I think, not only for the fans, but also for coaching staff strength test in a meeting with a serious opponent. Prior to this, only Turkish and Italian girls had resisted our girls, we won against both teams in difficult five-set fights. However, with all due respect to these rivals, on the eve of Rio, I wanted to look at the team against the background of someone from the elite of world volleyball.

GAME ASPECTS REQUIRE GRINDING

The Serbian team, of course, is not Brazil, China or the USA, but it can impose a fight, and a serious one. The last confrontation with the Serbs at the World Cup deprived us of the Olympic ticket, but it did not work out to take revenge - in the decisive game, Yuri Marichev's wards lost (2:3). The first two sets were left for the Russian team, although it was extremely difficult for them. With the help of Ksenia Ilchenko, Tatyana Kosheleva saved the starting one, and in the second one it was possible to organize a comeback from the score of 17:21 thanks to the work of our block and the efforts of Natalia Goncharova.

Before the third stage silver medalist Olympics in Sydney Tatyana Gracheva in an interview with "SE" complained that the 8th number of our team looks so far the one and only lifesaver in any situation, which is fraught. And so it happened. The Serbians managed to play on the block in decisive moments much better, they failed to concentrate on the reception, and the locomotive of the Serbian attacks Velkovich and Boshkovich looked fresher than our Kosheleva and Goncharova.

Against the Thai team the next day, Yuri Marichev fielded the same squad. It differed from the six weeks ago by the presence of Tatyana Kosheleva, who missed the match against the hosts of the Final Six in Bari. And again, the Russians started the meeting very confidently, winning the first set with a 9-point lead - 25:16. But the next two games have become a model of how our team can arrange problems for itself.

As soon as the Russians lost their concentration a little, mistakes fell down when putting the ball into the game and in defense, and now the set must be urgently saved. In the first case, Anna Malova heroically crawled along the court and Marina Babeshina found her serve, but in the second, no one could help out at the decisive moment. The final set was dictated by our girls, who got angry at themselves for making mistakes in the end of the third installment. The result - 25:12 and 3:1 in sets. "We need to improve our serve to make life easier for ourselves in the future. However, many other aspects of our game also require polishing," Marichev said after the match.

GONCHAROV - THE BEST AGAIN

The Japanese team gladly provided the atmosphere and material for this polishing. The five-thousand-seat arena was filled to capacity, and its owners were determined to please the fans at all costs. When the Japanese took the first set with a score of 25:20, the euphoria in the stands was as if the team had won at least the world championship. The key to the meeting was the third set. The Japanese women were leading in it 13:9, 20:15 and even 24:20, while our girls, as Marichev aptly put it, “absolutely nothing went” in one of the timeouts.

Realizing that there was nowhere to retreat further, the Russians started up: Goncharova managed to collect the crumbling block, it seemed, Kosheleva, who was gaining shape literally before our eyes, began to succeed in Shcherban. 26:24 - the set that slipped literally out of hand broke the Japanese team. No, they did not stop fighting - this is not at all in the spirit of the representatives of the Land of the Rising Sun, but some kind of doom appeared in their actions. The final success in games is 3:1. Russia enters the Final Six with eight wins in nine matches, and Goncharova is once again the absolute best in our team.

Japan - Russia - 1:3 (25:20, 23:25, 24:26, 20:25)

THE GRAND PRIX. Women

In the "Final Six" of the women's "Grand Prix" Russian team overcame national team Thailand and in the semifinals will play with the Americans.

In group K, where the national teams got Russia, Brazil And Thailand, the final arrangement of the teams was more or less clear even before the start of the tournament. That someone will be able to defeat the champions of the last two Olympics, Brazil national team, was hard to believe. In the same way, at least one victory of the Thai women, who got into this stage of the “Grand Prix” only because of the status of the hosts of the tournament, over our team would be a super sensation. That is why no one was surprised by the dry results in the group.

ANTI-RECORD WITHOUT PURCHASE

Without Tatyana Kosheleva, which injured her back and is being treated in Moscow, the Russians have become noticeably weaker in the rematch. If in the first set of the match with the Brazilians there was some kind of intrigue on the court, then the second set of the wards Yuri Marichev lost devastatingly - 10:25. It became an anti-record for our team. Before worst result had 11 points in meetings with Azerbaijan in 2005 and Poland in 2008. The third set of Latin Americans just played out and confidently won the match - 3:0.

Russian team in this match, she showed a large percentage of marriage and poor reception quality. And it's hard to explain it by mere absence Kosheleva. By the way, the performance of the team leader in Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is also, alas, questionable.

Her rehabilitation will be carried out by narrowly focused specialists, - answered a question regarding the return Tatyana Kosheleva curator of the VFV of the Russian women's volleyball Vladislav Fadeev. - It is still premature to assess the chances of her participation in the Olympics. We must first deal with the restoration of Tanya. There is still enough time before the Olympics. We will try our best to get it back up and running. If there is even the slightest chance to have time to recover, to return to the team, Tanya will always cling to this chance. She real fighter, she has already had to overcome an ankle injury this season.

But so far, the Russians, without their leader, are inferior to the Brazilians without a chance. However, in the match Brazil - Thailand everything was very clear too - 3:0 without any hint of at least an extra set.

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

The fate of the second place, and with it the ticket to the semi-finals of the tournament, was decided in the face-to-face confrontation between the teams Russia And Thailand. Our team, it must be admitted, pretty tickled the nerves of its fans. The Russians won the first set with difficulty (27:25), and they could have lost the second at all. Our girls came to the rescue in time by the Thais themselves, who at the decisive moments could not concentrate and lost their three-goal lead at the end of the set. In the last game segment, the Russians sometimes pulled ahead, then gave national team Thailand catch up, but the final spurt 6:0 buried all the hopes of the Asians for a miracle - 19:25 and 0:3 at the end of the match in favor of Russian team.

In the other group, meanwhile, one surprise did occur: Holland not without difficulty (3:2) beat China and took second place. Let u China and there are objective reasons for this: the national team brought a second squad to Bangkok. Moreover, even the head coach did not come national team Lang Ping, which, according to official information, is "preparing for the Olympic Games."

But for Russian team the situation does not change after the victory of Holland, because the Russians in the semi-final will still have to play with the team that took the first line in the parallel group. The rivals of our girls will be American women who did not lose a single set in the Final Six and, along with brazil national team, are the main contenders for victory in the "Grand Prix".

At the same time, it is worth noting that the vicissitudes of the calendar, according to which the only day of rest for our team turned out on the very first day of the tournament, has now played out against our opponents, who are also now forced to play their matches on a daily basis.

"The Grand Prix". "Final Six". Group K. Thailand - RUSSIA - 0:3 (25:27, 24:26, 19:25)

Judge: Budaya T. (Tunisia). Time match: 1.25 (29+30+26). T: Tinkaov (13), Kongyot (17). R: Shcherban (11), Zaryazhko (5), Goncharova (27), Pankova, Fetisova (7), Ilchenko (12), Malova (l), Babeshina (0), Startseva (0), Malykh (0). Group K. USA - China - 3:0 (25:21, 26:24, 25:22).

POSITION OF THE TEAMS AFTER THE GROUP TOURNAMENT

GROUP J