men's volleyball

Chapter 138

The fifth match day of the group stage arrived as scheduled.

The schedule is the same as the previous few days, three games a day, two games in the afternoon and one game in the evening.

In terms of the order of the entire group competition, the arrangement of the organizing committee and the organizer is also very interesting.

Perhaps what they originally considered was to arrange the match of the strongest team in each group in the last game, and let the game that determines the first and second be the peak battle of the group, marking the end of the entire group match.

As for the matchups of the other four teams, perhaps when they thought about it, it was no longer important on the last day, and at best it might just be a padding.

The situation in Group B was exactly the same, but there was a slight surprise in Group A.

However, the pre-arranged matchups were pretty good, at least involving the four teams in the final rankings, and there would be no discordant effects.

Because there is no tie in volleyball, the victory and defeat of the top 4 teams may be heaven and hell, because they all need to pursue victory, which also makes the four teams have to fight for it with all their strength.

It can be imagined that the competition in Group A on the last day will be extremely fierce, which can be regarded as adding atmosphere to the last game of the group competition.

Therefore, the competition in Group A has become the focus of everyone's attention today.

Several focus teams are also preparing for the afternoon and evening games step by step.

After the regular recovery training in the morning, they rested, and then ensured that they would have better physical strength and sense of the ball when playing in the afternoon or evening.

Of course, not all teams are like this.

Today's Ningbo Sports School and Nanhu Tanzhou Sixth Middle School are particularly relaxed.

In fact, they were already like this two days ago, because they were a team that was eliminated early. Half of them were resting yesterday, which was a purely literal rest, and half of them even went out of the campus for a stroll.

From Lin Mu's point of view, he was quite at ease.

In fact, he knew that many people, including some of his teammates, wanted to go out for a walk.

Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, is romantic, the blend of history and humanities and modernity, etc. For many teenagers who go out for the first time, there will always be many inexplicable attractions.

But, this can only be thought about.

In the final analysis, the purpose of their coming out is to compete, and it has reached the final and most critical time.

Lin Mu and his teammates are still the same as yesterday, recovering and analyzing opponents alternately, taking a short break after lunch at noon, and then at 3 pm, they all went to the arena.

Their final game on the last day is preset at 4 pm, and there is another game between Ningbo and Tanzhou before them, which starts at 1:[-] pm.

The interval between the two games is 2 and a half hours. Since the scoring rule was changed to score every ball, the time of the game has become much more controlled.Usually, an interval of more than 2 hours is sufficient.

Besides, they are amateur youth competitions and there is no technical timeout requirement, so in the first few days, there has never been a preset time.

And today even more so.

When Lin Mu brought the team to the scene, everything was ready in the arena.

The update room and the volleyball court have been well prepared long ago, just waiting for the match team to arrive.

The two teams from the previous match had long since disappeared.

A game with no desire to win, no goal, and a business-like game ended hastily in just one hour.

Of course, not many people paid attention to the score and outcome between them.

Even the few spectators in the stands were not interested in the discussion of the first two teams before they waited for the match between Pengli Ti School Team and Yucheng No. [-] Squadron.

Until the time came to 3:[-] in the afternoon, the two teams who were about to play stepped onto the court to start warming up before the game.

Some spectators in the stands began to point at some players of the two teams, and whispered discussions ensued.

Warm up seriously, and by the way, consciously look at some of the opponents mentioned by the coach before. The solemnity of the players on both sides also gradually heats up with the warm-up.

The atmosphere in the arena became more tense and dignified as time passed.

After the warm-up was over, the captains of the two sides guessed coins and selected the venue and the first team to serve. The players returned to their respective team areas, and the two coaches explained the last time before the start of the game.

After a brief arrangement, Lu Lin handed over the team to Lin Mu.

The starting players of the Pengli team have basically stabilized, and the starting lineup for the first game has also been scheduled.

The personnel are basically the same as before, and the order has been slightly adjusted according to the situation.

Their positions in the first round are: Lin Mu in the fourth position in the front row, Tang Bin in the third position, Li Feng in the second position, Lu Wei in the fifth position in the back row, Zhou Ting in the sixth position and Han Chen in the first position.

"Play well, play with our characteristics!" Lin Mu clapped his hands and said, looking at his teammates who were both nervous and trying to appear not nervous.

They had already read the information of the competition a few days ago. After the match with Jincai Middle School, Lu Lin had clearly analyzed the opponents they would face in the group one by one.

Speaking of which, their opponents today are stronger than those of the previous two days, which is not difficult to see from the scores of the Yucheng team against them.

The Yucheng team won two 3:1 victories, but they were not strong enough to surpass the first level.

At least not as easy as when the Pengli team played against them, and when Yucheng played against Jincai and Jinling, the gap was even bigger.

Of course, the same sentence cannot be replaced by the mutual record of the teams as the relationship between victory and defeat.But there are some intuitive and tactical things that are more or less contrastable.

Lin Mu has great confidence in the team's ability to play well, but how to put it, when the game is really approaching, it is still a critical moment, and some nervousness is inevitable.

Although Lu Lin didn't give them a specific analysis of the team situation and specifically emphasized something, he just asked them to strive to play well and play themselves.

But everyone is not stupid and useless, and they don't know what the real situation is.In this game, they cannot lose first, otherwise they will be extremely passive.

Secondly, it is necessary to lose as few games as possible, or even lose points.

"Old Tang, how are you doing?"

"Old Han, okay?"

"Li Feng..."

"Xiaowei..."

"Little Wen..."

"Old Zhou..."

"..."

Lin Mu calmly patted the shoulders of his teammates one by one, including the substitutes, and asked them one by one.

Facing Lin Mu's gaze, everyone nodded fiercely.

"Okay then, come..."

Lin Mu nodded in satisfaction, stretched out his right hand to greet his teammates, and then stretched out his hands one by one, layer by layer, and shouted in unison, "Team Pengli, we must win! "

"beep~"

As soon as the whistle sounded, the starting players of the two teams, led by their respective captains, boarded the field and the game began.

In the first game, Yucheng No. [-] Middle School served first.

Lin Mu bowed his hands and supported his knees. Ever since the other teams began to consciously target him more like a competition, even if he was in the front row, he rarely allowed himself to be in a complete observation position in the receiving game.

From the team's overall and personal wishes, in fact, he hopes that others can give him more targets, not only to share the pressure of his teammates, but also, this is not a kind of exercise for him.

He likes the feeling of consolidating his foundation step by step through the game, discovering and comprehending.

It is precisely because of this little accumulation of gains that his skills have been enhanced, his sense of presence has become higher, and his control has become stronger.

In Ben's mind, this is the real reason why volleyball has gradually become a passion in his heart from one of his learning contents.

The serving whistle sounds and the opponent starts serving.

Lin Mu's spirit became more focused, and a pair of clear eyes stared intently at the opposite side.

The opponent's serving player and the general situation of the Yucheng No. [-] Middle School players crossed his mind again.

The Yucheng team has 6 players on the field, with 7-10 players in the main force and regular rotation. Even including free agents, the average height is almost 1.9 meters. He is tall and big.

Even compared to Jinling No. [-] Middle School and Jincai Middle School, it is not far behind.

And their technical characteristics are roughly similar to those of the two teams. Their tactics are slightly weaker in impromptu tandem.

Coupled with the powerful jump serve of a few players and the block formed by the height advantage, the overall strength is not bad.

However, it is not difficult to see from the past few games that they are worse than the other two teams in terms of small-scale movement and organization and response to fastballs.

Therefore, when they played against a stronger team than themselves with a similar system, they ended up with two losses.

Of course, Yucheng No. [-] Middle School also has a place where it is not inferior to the opponent at all, and that is the organized blocking.

They don't have as much footwork, but they do a good job of timing their jumps with their size if given the time to block.

Even in those two losing games, they blocked the opponent's offense many times, and once relied on a strong block to fight the opponent in a stalemate.

How should I put it, they lost in offense and movement. To put it simply, their tactics are more clumsy.

Lin Mu's eyes wandered around the opponent's field, and his gaze passed over the jersey numbers in front of them inch by inch.

The main attacker of No. 6, in addition to a stable and powerful attack, can guarantee a pass if he does not make quick moves and changes. Moreover, the first pass is good and very stable.

The secondary attacker No. 7 is calm and sharp, relying on his height of over two meters and good bounce, he can put great pressure on the opponent in the control of hitting high points and blocking heights.

Setter No. 1, an "old" player who seems to be not young, has a high pass rate, adjusts the pass is also good, and is not short in height.

The waiting time for the serve was approaching, and the opponent's main attacker No. 3 in the back row began to move.

Lin Mu withdrew all his thoughts in an instant, mobilized his body muscles, and was ready to move at any time.

Probably the upper middle of the 6th position.

When the ball was shot, Lin Mu made an instant judgment. Following the direction of the ball, he turned his head and looked behind him. His footsteps didn't stop, and then he moved towards the net.

"Have!"

Lu Wei snorted, took a step diagonally, and fell to the ground.

The quality of this serve is quite high, fast and powerful. When Lu Wei received the ball, he could not control the speed and direction of the ball. When he passed the ball, the speed of the ball was still extremely fast. When he rushed to the net, he was biased between positions 3 and 4. , One and a half passes in place.

Lin Mu had already come to the net, and he never took his eyes off the ball. After the pass was made, he was also observing the running positions of his teammates.Now the ball is not far away from him, he can run to make a setter organization.

However, according to their tactics, the first pass is in place and half in place, and the second pass from the back row needs to be advanced to organize.

Of course, tactics are not rigid. As one of the passing duo, the person in the front row needs to pay attention to the running position of his teammates, and then judge to determine whether they can complete their established tactics.

Not bad!

Lin Mu took a step back, because Han Chen's reaction was very timely. He was already moving after the opponent served the ball. After the pass was passed, he had already penetrated from the backcourt. According to Lin Mu's judgment, Han Chen had time to organize.

Han Chen came up, he half-hopped, and lightly stepped on the ball.

The blocking composition of the opponent's three players in front of the net has been settled, Lin Mu's side is very important, and the two in front of the net are ready to fight.

However, Han Chen seemed to give the ball pad to Lin Mu out of habit. .

"boom!"

Lin Mu didn't back down either. When Han Chen made the pass, he had already jumped. After flying into the air, he waited for the ball to come, and then, without hesitation, he swung his arms vigorously.

The block takes off really fast, and it is high enough and tight enough.

Lin Mu sighed softly.

Looking at the two pairs of criss-crossed arms in front of him, his eyes were solemn, and he watched the volleyball hit the opponent's wrist, and bounced past him at a very fast speed.

ho-

With a muffled grunt, Lu Wei hurriedly moved again, slipped and saved the ball, but the ball landed in front of his fingertips, and collided with Zhou Ting who also fell to the ground to save the ball.

"Captain, I'm getting used to it!"

Han Chen stepped forward, pulled Zhou Ting and Lu Wei up, then walked to Lin Mu and apologized a little embarrassedly.

"Clap!"

Lin Mu patted Han Chen's shoulder, shook his head lightly, then patted his hands again and raised his voice and said, "It's okay, come again, we will play our tactics well, everyone!"

Han Chen nodded silently.

In terms of tactics, their tactic is to change quickly. Just a ball was very fast, but he lost the change.

The captain was the first to attack. After Han Chen came up, he really instinctively passed it to Lin Mu.

In fact, just now Li Feng in the 3rd position, or even the [-]nd position, can play the ball more easily. It is nothing more than a back pass, and he also has such passing ability.

The opponent's footsteps are not too fast, and there are more changes in the mobilization and selection.

Han Chen walked back to the receiving position, his expression became more serious.

1: 0.

The back row of Yucheng No. [-] Middle School continued to serve.

Lin Mu was also more solemn in his position.

Only when you really face it will you know that the players of Yucheng No. [-] Middle School are commendable for blocking.

Although the moving speed is not fast, the blocking height is really high, and the cooperation between the two is also good.

Although they didn't fully judge Lin Mu's take-off timing just now, the speed of the bullet and the height of his own bounce still played an excellent role, making up for some rigid defects.

Lin Mu also paid more attention to the blocking of Yucheng No. [-] Middle School.

The game continued, the second serve, the Pengli team made a pass, and Han Chen made a second pass.

Lin Mu still received a lot of attention, and there was always a player following Lin Mu in front of the net.

Of course, because the second pass point is near the second position, the opponent's distribution of blocking personnel also intentionally makes the two relatively closer to the second position.

The [-]nd position can hit the fastball close to the body, even the [-]rd position. They can quickly catch up with the organization to block in this area without requiring them to move much.

As for the other side, when they think about it, passing from the second position to the 4th position, such a long-distance transfer, there is always some time for them to coordinate and block in the past.

However, the cooperation between Han Chen and Lin Mu made them fully feel the rapid change of the Pengli team.

Han Chen didn't choose to pass to the close position. After he jumped up, he passed the ball to the 4th position in a flat manner.

Lin Mu had already stepped forward to take off, and the opponent's player in position 3 had no time to assist the block here, so he could only barely take off and block the approximate range with his teammates.

Facing the block, Lin Mu did it very calmly.

"boom!"

The straight ball went straight to the backcourt, pressing on the sideline, and the opponent's main attack from the back row was unable to respond in time, so the final decision was made.

The score is 1:1.

"nice shot!"

Where did they lose points, and where did they get them back? The Pengli team seemed very happy.

Teammates came up and clapped hands to celebrate.

Lin Mu waved his hand calmly.

In fact, in his opinion, there is nothing to be proud of when he succeeds in smashing the ball. When he is in the air and can calmly judge where to drop the ball, there is no suspense about the ball.

However, he still attaches great importance to the opponent's block using height and hand shape.

Just now, if he chose to hit the ball diagonally inside the court, the opponent might really be able to block it.

The game continued, and Lin Mu's emphasis on the opponent's blocking was gradually improving the awareness of all Pengli players.

Their blocking like that is not a coincidence. In the case of poor physical fitness, as long as the Pengli team does not make a rapid change in the organization of the first offense, it is often easy to suffer.

Lin Mu and Zhou Ting's spiking is not bad, and the efficiency is good.

Other players, including Li Feng, were blocked several times.

From the perspective of technical statistics, there is not much difference in the offensive and defensive efficiency of the two sides. In terms of active scoring, the Pengli team, which has always been dominant in active scoring, failed to play its own advantage.

If it weren't for Lin Mu and Li Feng's serving points, they would even be at a disadvantage.

Especially in blocking, Yucheng No. [-] High School is extremely efficient no matter how the front and rear rows are rotated.

So far, they have scored 8 direct block points.

The first game was coming to an end, and the competition between the two sides rose alternately, and the score was 19:21 anxiously, and the Pengli team temporarily took the lead by two points.

(End of this chapter)