Imoco and Tianjin end pool stage with out shedding a set
Excessive-flying Gabi in assault in opposition to NEC Purple Rockets
Hosts Tianjin Bohai Financial institution will tackle Brazil’s Dentil Praia Clube Uberlandia in one in every of Saturday’s semifinals of the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Ladies’s Membership World Championship in Hangzhou, China. An all-Italian conflict between Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano and Numia Vero Volley Milan formed up within the different. The pool stage of the event got here to a completion on Friday and the semifinal match-ups had been finalized. Tianjin and Praia will hit the court docket on the Huanglong Sports activities Middle at 15:00 native time (07:00 UTC). Imoco and Vero Volley will lock horns at 19:30 (11:30).
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Pool A
The final match of the pool stage didn’t make an exception and was resolved in straight units, similar to the earlier 11. In entrance of an official rely of three,383 spectators, Tianjin Bohai Financial institution made positive they end first of their pool standings with no set misplaced by sweeping Friday’s recreation in opposition to Brazil’s Gerdau Minas Belo Horizonte. Celebrating a 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-22) victory, the Chinese language group superior to the Membership World Championship semifinals for the second time, after ending third with the bronze final yr, additionally in Hangzhou.
Gerdau Minas had been eradicated from the event after taking the third place in Pool A on a 1-2 win-loss file. Italian rookies Numia Vero Volley Milan, who had secured their semifinal ticket already on Thursday, completed pool runners-up on 2-1.
Minas scored extra assault factors than Tianjin and the identical variety of aces, whereas the Chinese language facet did barely higher in blocking. What tilted the steadiness closely in favour of Tianjin had been the unforced errors, of which the Brazilian group dedicated greater than double these of the house group, 27 in opposition to 13. Outdoors hitter and captain Li Yingying led the winners with 22 factors, together with one ace, and shared the highest scorer honours with Minas’s reverse Kisy Nascimento, whose 22-point tally included one ace and one kill block. The Brazilian captain, center blocker Thaisa Menezes, additionally reached the double digits, headlining the blockers with 4 stuffs, to which she added three aces and three kills in offence.
Improbable atmosphere on the stands throughout the Tianjin v Minas recreation on Friday
Pool B
Within the final Pool B match earlier on Friday, Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano hammered out a 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-19) shutout of Japan’s NEC Purple Rockets Kawasaki to complete on prime of the ultimate pool standings on an ideal file, with no set dropped over the three matches performed within the pool. This was the fourth day out of 4 Membership World Championship appearances Imoco progressed to the semifinals. The primary 3 times they at all times additionally superior additional to ultimate matches. The Asian group completed the pool in third place on a 1-2 win-loss file and out of additional competition within the event, thus permitting Dentil Praia Clube Uberlandia to remain in second place on 2-1 and advance to the Membership World Championship semifinals for the second time within the membership’s historical past, after doing so final yr as nicely.
The blocking made the large distinction within the match between Imoco and NEC. The Italian group piled up as many as 13 kill blocks in opposition to solely 5 by their Japanese opponents. Swedish star reverse Isabelle Haak authored three of these and fired two aces to complete on a match-high 17 factors. Imoco’s outsides – Zhu Ting of China and Gabriela Guimaraes (Gabi) of Brazil – additionally reached the double digits with 12 and 10 factors, respectively. Purple Rockets’ outsides Yoshino Sato and Thailand’s Ajcharaporn Kongyot additionally scored 12 factors apiece, whereas center blocker and captain Haruyo Shimamura put away 10.
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