On the evening of June 2, the second week of the World Women's Volleyball League preliminaries came to an end as the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Turkey in three games. The Chinese women's volleyball team ranked eighth with nine points from three victories in six matches. Despite the poor performance, coach Lang Ping insists on training substitutes with the league and has reached the goal of tempering the second tier lineup for the Tokyo Olympic Games. On the other hand, the results also revealed the gap of this lineup, which made the outside world worried about the depth of the bench of the Olympic lineup.

Exercise substitute

The main team only brings Zhang Changning

In this World Women's Volleyball League, Lang Ping insisted on the idea of training the backup team, and the main team only brought Zhang Changning. Lang Ping's hope is to train substitutes through high-level confrontation to determine the list of candidates for the Tokyo Olympic Games. However, Zhang Changning is the most prominent one after two weeks of league matches.

In the first week, the Chinese women's volleyball team encountered three strong Asian teams. After the thrilling defeat of the Korean women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team was swept by Japan in three games after Zhang Changning was hidden in the snow. Since then, the Chinese women's volleyball team has defeated the Thai women's volleyball team with an incomplete lineup. It is believed that after the first week of competition, the line-up of the women's volleyball team and the players' state can become better.

However, in the second week's competition, the Chinese women's volleyball team first made a dramatic reversal of Germany in five games, and then lost to Canada in five games under difficult circumstances. In the face of strong Turkey, the women's volleyball team lost 3-0. Especially in the game lost to Canada, the performance of the players in many aspects, such as serving, attacking in front of the net and blocking, was unsatisfactory.

After six rounds of the league, only Zhang Changning ranked in the top 20 in the list of smash scores, block scores and serve scores. Other players still have a gap with the strong teams in terms of overall level. In a sense, the players' technical and tactical abilities and self-confidence will be hit if they blindly let the substitute team lose and let the training effect be discounted.

Olympic strategy

Mislead the opponent

Spy his main team

Although the achievements in the World Women's Volleyball League are not satisfactory, the current strategy is successful according to coach Lang Ping's deployment of the entire strategy for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Including Japan and Turkey, they will be rivals in the Tokyo Olympic Games. The result of this fight will greatly mislead the opponent.

When facing the Japanese team, the director Lang Ping took Zhang Changning and Yao Di out of the starting line-up to meet the challenge of the main force of the Japanese women's volleyball team with a thorough second line lineup, which also made the game a "stress test"; In the face of the Turkish team, although the Chinese women's volleyball team has been burdened with the burden of maintaining points, it still sends a full replacement team to deal with the main team of Turkey, which is composed of the main attack of Meriha and Baladin, the secondary attack of Aida and Ackerman, and the response of Karakurt, the second pass of Naz and the free agent Aykaki.

There was no accident in the direction of the two games. The Japanese women's volleyball team is one level higher than the Chinese women's volleyball team in terms of overall cooperation and defensive ability. Karakurt and other young players of the Turkish women's volleyball team are full of vigor in serving, strong attack, fast attack, blocking and other aspects.

Although faced with two defeats for the future Olympic opponents, Lang Ping on the one hand implemented his idea of training the backup lineup; On the other hand, he also spied on the main teams of Japan and Turkey. For example, Japan's first pass Ishikawa Shinsuke ranked first in the league's first pass ranking for 74 times; The playing method and route of the Turkish team with Karakurt as the core are also understood by the Chinese coaching team. Before the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team still has time to improve its playing methods against these opponents.

Hidden worries after the game

No new talent in multiple positions is a big problem

For Lang Ping, the ranking of this World Women's Volleyball League does not matter. But what she really expects is to find gold from this second tier lineup, and the players can grow from the high-intensity competition. Unfortunately, after six league matches, the Chinese women's volleyball team is most lacking in the side attack position and the secondary attack line, and it is difficult to find a truly qualified reserve force.

In the match with Japan, the Chinese women's volleyball team was suppressed by its opponents in many aspects, such as strong attack, fast attack, blocking and defense. The low efficiency of the offensive led to the failure of the Chinese women's volleyball team to exceed 20 points in three games; Liu Yanhan, who scored the highest in the team, scored 9 points, and the spike scoring rate was only 26%, which was significantly lower than the 54% spike scoring rate of Japanese women's volleyball attacker Mashio Ishikawa. The Chinese women's volleyball team fell behind 0-7 in service score.

In the second week, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Canada and Turkey one after another. The competition exposed the technical loopholes and poor competition awareness of the substitutes, which also magnified the weaknesses of the whole team again.

Before that, the candidates for the fourth main attack, substitute take over and the third secondary attack in the Chinese women's volleyball team's Olympic lineup have been difficult to produce. Judging from the performance of this league, Lang Ping is still difficult to pick out the needed substitutes from the second tier lineup.

The Chinese Women's Volleyball Team has gained and lost in the Women's Volleyball League this time. Although the Olympic lineup is still difficult to produce, as Lang Ping said after the game, let the substitute lineup really shoulder the burden of the game, to see their ability to solve difficult problems, see the gap between themselves and international experts, "this is also a good thing". Learning to compete in the competition is also what this second tier women's volleyball team needs to do well.

By our reporter Chu Peng

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