A new season of sports
In the early morning of February 11, Beijing time, the 20th round of the regular season of the 2023-2024 Serie A Women's Volleyball League ushered in a key battle, and Zhu Ting's Scandic challenged Valleforia away.
Before this game, Scandic ranked fourth in Serie A behind Conegliano, Milan and Novara; Valleforia is in seventh place, and the two sides are close in strength.
Sure enough, Valleforia took the lead at home, winning two games in a row at -21. Scandicci, who was forced to have no way out, opened the score early in the last three games, and finally won three games in a row, winning 3-2 and getting two points. Antropova played bravely in the last three games, attacking 21 of 21 and blocking 8 shots, scoring a game-high 31 points and winning the MVP. Zhu Ting also played well, scoring 19 points on offense.
The first game, Odjenovic passed a lot of balls to Zhu Ting at the beginning, and Scandic's first three points came from Zhu Ting's attack. After 5-5, Antropova scored on attack, Herbots and Carroll blocked the net successively, and Scandic opened the score 10-6.
In the game, Herbots's "two-point attack" in the front row happened to meet Aleksic, a secondary attack of Valleforia's blocking master, in the front row, and as a result, Herbots was difficult to get off the ball, Scandic lost 6 points in a row, and the score was overtaken 15-17. After a timeout, Scandic clung to the score and finally chased it to 22 draws. It's a pity that he lost three points in a row at the end of the game, and finally lost the first game 22-25.
In the first game, in addition to scoring one more point in attack, Scandic was inferior to his opponent in terms of blocking, serving, and error control. Although she lost the first game, Zhu Ting played eye-catching, hitting 7 of 8 deductions, without mistakes and blocks. Alexic also scored seven points.
Second inning, Scandic opened the game with a three-point lead. After 8-6, it was the front row "two-point attack" when it was jammed, even if Villani replaced Herbots, it did not improve much, Scandic lost 5 points in a row, and the score was overtaken 8-11.
In the middle of the game, Villani's pass was unstable, Antropova and Carol both made smash mistakes, and the difference was widened to 6 points.
Scandic kept adjusting the lineup, re-replacing the main offense with Helbots and the secondary offense with Washington. After Zhu Ting turned to the front row, the fourth position scored consecutive points, and the score was chased to 17-19. Then in Zhu Ting's service round, Scandic scored consecutive net blocks, and finally chased the score to 20-20.
At the end of the game, Zhu Ting was replaced, but Scandic lost 4 points in a row, and finally lost another game 21-25, and the efforts to chase points in the game fell short, and the big score fell behind 0-2.
In the first two games, Scandic was leading at the beginning, and at the end of the first game, he replaced Antropova and lost 3 points in a row; replaced Zhu Ting at the end of the second game and lost 4 points in a row, and Coach Scandicci's substitution operation was really "confusing".
toThe third gameRelying on Zhu Ting's attack and Antropova's serve, Scandic got off to a perfect start of 6-1.
Although Valleforia briefly chased the score to 9-11, Scandicci took a timeout and re-stabilized the situation, and finally pulled one back at 25-21.
Scandic won this game in attack and serve, blocking the net is not as good as the opponent, of which Zhu Ting scored another 7 points on offense, and the total score reached 17 points; Antropova has 3 service points.
In the fourth game, Antropova continued her good form in the previous game, kept chasing De Grady, and cut two points on the opening serve to help Scandic take a 9-3 lead.
Valleforia blocked the net in the middle of the game to limit Herbots' offense, and at one point chased the score to 16-18. But Scandic still withstood it, and played a wave of 7-1 scoring in the second half of the game, and finally won 25-17 again, chasing the big score to a 2-2 draw.
In the deciding game, Washington blocked De Grady's strong attack twice, and the latter, who was afraid of being stopped again, chose to draw and went out of bounds, and Scandic took advantage of the situation to take an 8-4 lead.
After switching sides, Scandic lost three points in a row, but still withstood the opponent's counterattack. With Antropova attacking and serving points, Scandic eventually sealed the win 15-10.
Match stats: Scandic attacked 67-64, blocked 10-14, served 8-2, and sent 23-18 with opponent errors.
All eight of Scandic's service points came from Antropova, which further cemented her position as the No. 1 serve in the Serie A Women's Volleyball League.
The main attack is Zhu Ting and Herbots, the secondary attack is Carroll and L. Nwakallo, the answer is Antropova, the second setter Odjenovic, and the libero Parocchial.