On September 27, Beijing time, the ninth round of the 2019 women's Volleyball World Cup continued in Japan. Zhu Ting broke out in tuchao teammate Robinson and scored 27 points alone. The American women's volleyball team beat the Russian women's volleyball team 3-2 (24-26, 25-22, 25-22, 17-25, 15-8) in five innings, ranking second with 8 wins and 1 losses. It is still possible to catch up with the Chinese women's volleyball team in theory, The defeated Russian team ranked third with 7-2.
Competition focus
1. Before this game, the United States and Russia were both 7-1, lagging behind the unbeaten Chinese women's volleyball team, which was the second battle in the championship.
2. After five innings of hard work, the American women's volleyball team narrowly defeated Russia 3-2 and followed the Chinese women's volleyball team 8-1. In theory, there is still the possibility of winning the championship. Russia, which lost the game, ranked third with 7-2.
War Review
In the first game, gonzalova and voronkova spiked two points respectively. American team derus and Robinson also scored two points respectively. The two sides drew 4-4 at the beginning. After a brief stalemate, the Russian team's attack was blocked, Robinson No. 4 grabbed a counterattack, and the American women's volleyball team took the lead 8-6 at the first technical pause.
Robinson later captured the net and gonzalova spilt the ball at position 2, but palubetz made a wrong serve, drew the hitter out of the bounds, and the United States continued to lead 11-9. Larson made a mistake in blocking and the two sides drew 13. Palubetz's successful combination of playing and hanging in position 4 helped the team surpass the score 16-14.
Palubetz fought back and scored another point, and the 14-17 trailing American team requested a suspension. Robinson's smash and serve complement each other, helping the team catch up to 17 draws, derus's back attack error, and Russia led again 19-17. The U.S. team strengthened its service aggressiveness, took the lead 21-19, and got the game point 24-23. Gonzalova made a contribution in position 2, vorontkova dropped the ball successfully, and then hit back and scored heavy buckles. Russia scored three points in a row and won a game 26-24 first.
In the second inning, gonzalova spiked the ball at position 2, but his teammate served off the net, Larson hit back, and the American women's volleyball team took the lead 4-1. Voronkova hit the No. 4 position with a heavy buckle, followed by the success of blocking, and Russia caught up with 3-4. At the sticky moment, the Russian team made a pass mistake, and the U.S. team blocked and scored, opening the score 8-4.
After the first technical suspension, the Russian team's first pass rate was not high and the attack was blocked. The American team opened the score 12-5 after blocking and scoring. Lazarenko's fast break hit, but Larson and Robinson's No. 4 attack was unstoppable. With the Russian team blocking out, the American women's volleyball team opened the score 16-9.
Kololeva's fast break hit the block and scored another point. Russia was close to 13-17, forcing kirari to request a suspension. Larson smashed the ball to stabilize the formation, drew and Rao Wei made contributions, and the United States held a six point advantage of 19-13. The backward Russian team was unwilling to show weakness. They stopped Larsen, resulting in the mistake of the American team, which brought the score close to 20-22. Derus smashed the ball to help the team get the inning point 24-21. Larsen hit position 4, and the American women's volleyball team pulled back to the city 25-22.
In the third inning, derus turned a straight line to hit, Larson counterattacked the ball, vorontkova made a mistake in position 4, Dixon counterattacked the fast break, and the American women's volleyball team started 4-0. The first pass of the Russian team was not in place. After 2-7, the head coach asked for a pause. Gonzalova scored hard, the ferry, vorontkova served out, and the American women's volleyball team took the lead 8-4.
In the subsequent game, gonzalova caught a counterattack, the Russian team blocked and made a contribution, bringing the score close to 7-9, and kirari requested a suspension. Palubetz's counterattack at position 4 was successful, and Russia was close to 9-10, but drew turned his wrist and hit back in a straight line. He followed the U.S. team to serve and score, and continued to lead 13-9. Dixon's drop ball scored, and the American women's volleyball team held a six point lead of 16-10.
Robinson fought back and attacked successfully, and the United States led 20-14. Russia is unwilling to be outdone. It is approaching 19-23 by blocking and opponent's mistakes, and kirari requests a suspension. Robinson's back attack helped the team get the game points 24-19. Russia chased three points. Robinson's back attack scored another point at the critical moment. The American women's volleyball team won the game 25-22, leading 2-1.
In the fourth inning, the two sides started a short stalemate. After the 4-draw, vorontkova hit the big slash at position 4. Robinson buckled the slash out of the boundary when leaning back. After 6-4, Robinson made another mistake in attack. Although vorontkova made an attack mistake, she adjusted the ball in time to help the Russian women's volleyball team lead 8-6.
The backward American team strengthened the blocking of voronkova, but the Russian team withstood the pressure and voronkova's line changed properly. After 13-11, the American team made a mistake and the Russian team was three points ahead. The Russian team missed the net, but volonkova scored another point. The Russian women's volleyball team led 16-13 during the second technical suspension.
Next, the American team's attack was blocked, while the Russian team firmly controlled the initiative on the field. Both sides of the attack and defense had a good performance. They played a wave of 4-1 climax and expanded the results 20-14. Kirari was forced to request a suspension. Dixon's fast break hit, derus made a mistake, Russia won the game point 24-17, derus No. 2 was stopped, the Russian women's volleyball team won 25-17 and tied 2 points.
In the decisive game, although the Russian team took a 5-3 lead, the American team seized the counterattack and chased it into a tie. The Russian team made continuous mistakes in one pass. With volonkova's take-up pass, the American team took the lead in the exchange of venues 8-6. Larson fought back successfully and Robinson hit the back attack. Larson skillfully played in many rounds to help the team win the match point 14-7. Finally, the United States won 15-8, narrowly beat the Russian women's volleyball team 3-2, ranking second with 8-1, only lagging behind the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Technical statistics
In this game, the U.S. team had three doubles, Robinson had 27 points, drew had 23 points, Larson had 16 points and Washington had 8 points; Russia's gonzalova scored 22 points, kololeva and voronkova both scored 17 points and palubetz 10 points.
Both sides start
The starting lineup sent by the American women's volleyball team is mainly to attack Larson and Robinson, and the second team is to attack ogbogu and Washington, pick up drew Ruth, setter bolt and free agent olantes Wang.
The starting lineup sent by the Russian women's volleyball team is voronkova and palubetz, with secondary attacks on kololeva and efimova, followed by gonzalova, setter statseva and free man qikrizova.