The Chinese women's volleyball team swept and the Dominican women's volleyball team in the penultimate game of the tournament, taking all three points and advancing to the quarterfinals. In this game, the Dominican women's volleyball team did not pose any threat to the Chinese team. Even when the score was lagging behind, the Chinese women's volleyball girls still played unhurriedly, equalizing the difference point by point and overtaking the lead.
The reason why the players are so calm has a lot to do with the lack of strength in Dominica. Although they defeated Thai women's volleyball team , the problem of rough balls has not been improved in any way. In this campaign, facing the strong serve of the Chinese women's volleyball team, their first pass was almost not in place. There were very few secondary offenses and all were handed over to the side offense. In addition, the speed was slow, so they were frequently blocked. Although
has successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, , Cai Bin, and 's approach of playing to the end with one lineup still aroused doubts among fans. In this contest with the Dominican Republic, Cai Bin only made one substitution, that is, at the end of the third game at the 23rd minute, he replaced Yang Hanyu with Wang Yuanyuan . The rest of the time, he relied on a main lineup to play. , There is no chance for newcomers to practice.
This game is indeed very important. It is related to whether the women's volleyball team can advance to the finals, so there is nothing wrong with using the entire main lineup at the beginning, and the fans also express their understanding. But after the second game, the Dominican women's volleyball team gave up the game. They replaced the three main players including the Martinez sisters and the main setter Marte, and sent out a substitute lineup to play. In the third game, younger players were used.
Judging from the continuous dispatch of substitutes from the Dominican Republic, they no longer have any hope of winning. In the third game, the team was completely deflated and just wanted to end the game quickly. However, Cai Bin did not send Gao Yi , Cai Yaqian and Chen Peiyan 3 newcomers to the field. Instead, he replaced Wang Yuanyuan with Yang Hanyu. This substitution was also quite confusing. In terms of Yang Hanyu's experience, Still need to exercise?
Yang Hanyu was the MVP of the 2017 World Youth Championship and was successfully selected for the Chinese Women's Volleyball National Team led by Lang Ping. During the Tokyo Olympics cycle, Yang Hanyu got more opportunities to play and also won a World Cup gold medal. Although she did not participate in the Olympics, her competition experience should be comparable to that of Wang Yuanyuan, so replacing Yang Hanyu with Wang Yuanyuan is really confusing. Some fans bluntly said, "This is just to stop everyone's mouths. I am not playing with the same lineup."
Let's not talk about whether the substitution timing at 23 minutes is a bit late, but let's talk about the replacement candidate. In fact, the best substitution at this time should be to replace Wang Yuanyuan with Gao Yi, or replace Diao Linyu with Cai Yaqian, or replace Gong Xiangyu with Chen Peiyan. No matter which substitution Cai Bin uses, the three newcomers can get effective training. As a result, the newcomers can only be treated as spectators.
In fact, the problem of Cai Bin's lineup to fight to the end is already a commonplace. Cai Bin used this model when he coached the Jiangsu Women's Volleyball Team, but he didn't seem to learn the lesson from the league that after Diao Linyu was injured, there was no setter available in the team. If the World League doesn't train newcomers, should the World Championships be used to train newcomers? I hope Cai Bin can send out a substitute lineup in the next game against South Korea.
