The countdown to the Paris Olympics has begun, and teams are making their final sprints. The Chinese women's volleyball team is a team with excellent traditions, and has stood on the top podium of the Olympic Games three times. As the core of the team, Yuan Xinyue, Li Yingying and Gong Xiangyu have all released bold words, and they all mentioned "getting good results and standing on the podium".
Yuan Xinyue said, "All strong teams in the world volleyball world have different characteristics, and the Chinese women's volleyball team also hopes to achieve good results in the Paris Olympics." Li Yingying said: "I hope to stand on the podium with the Chinese women's volleyball team at the Paris Olympics." Gong Xiangyu said: "I hope to stand out with my teammates and stand on the podium of the Olympic Games." ”
So, what are the chances of the Chinese women's volleyball team standing on the Olympic podium? In fact, as Yuan Xinyue said, the strength of each team is almost the same, and whether they can stand on the podium depends not only on the performance, but also on the opponent. In the Olympic Games, the three games of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the group stage are very important.
According to the rules of the Paris Olympics, the knockout rounds of the eight-in-four will be arranged according to the overall results of the group stage, which means that the winner of each game, and even each game and every point will be related to the opponent in the knockout round. If the Chinese team wins the group, but the group winners of the other two groups are stronger than the Chinese team, then the Chinese women's volleyball team can only be ranked third, against the sixth-ranked team, according to this rule, the group stage results are crucial.
The Chinese women's volleyball team played against France, the United States, and Serbia in the group stage. First of all, China must defeat France 3-0 to win the initiative for itself, and then fight against the two strong teams of the United States and Serbia. Otherwise, there will be a situation where you will not be able to advance to the quarterfinals or encounter a strong opponent.
As far as the performance of the World League is concerned, the Chinese team has an advantage in playing Poland, a "high, slow and coarse" team; Against Japan, this type of "Little Kuailing" also has hope of winning; There are a dozen teams that have encountered this type of "all-round but no strong attack point" in Brazil; It was a little difficult to meet a team like Italy, which was "all-round and still has a strong attacking point".
Among the 12 teams participating in the Olympic Games, except for the host country France and the African representative Kenya, even the Netherlands, Dominican Republic and other teams that are not favored by everyone have the possibility of standing on the podium. If the Chinese women's volleyball team wants to complete the goal of standing on the podium, first, it needs to improve the quality of a pass and give full play to the advantages of the secondary attack as much as possible, and second, the right-wing firepower and left-wing firepower form a containment, so that the opponent can take care of one and lose the other.
In addition, head coach Cai Bin also needs to improve his ability to control the field, so that every player can make the best use of it, such as the third secondary attack or Wu Mengjie can replace the short setter or main attack to block the front row; Or change the setter alone, adjust the team's tempo, etc., and the timing of the pause and challenge should be just right.