The Olympic champions overwhelm the US as in them waiting for the winner of Poland-China at 20
The re-edition of the Olympic final ends up as the Olympic final: 3-0 for the blue (the third consecutive from the quarterfinals of the VNL 2024 onwards and 27th consecutive victory for the girls) who fly to the semifinals pending the opponent who will leave the clash between the landlords of Poland and China. It must be said that Lodz’s USA of Olympic had little starting from the bench on which Erik Sullivan sits after more than a decade of Karch Kiraly. On the pitch, another team also compared to the Chicago stage with many new faces starting with the next scandicci Sarah Franklin. Ongoing works consisting for the States in the renewal phase
Italy-USA 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 28-26)
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Italy, on the other hand, takes the field with a lot of gold. From the Olympic final, only Bosetti is missing, replaced in the field by degrades, who recovered the blue after a long injury. The start, however, is all USA: a joke that devastates the Italian reception that seems to have remained in the locker room. Away with an American 3-0 and Paola Egonu thinks about giving the alarm to Italy. From then on it is a fluctuating game for the Olympic champions that alternate moments of overwhelming superiority, with the wall often protagonist, with a clear drop in stages in which Orro and companions seem to struggle to find their game. Sullivan girls have the understandable grit of those who have to conquer a stable place. The expert Poulter distributes quite equally to the Avery Skinner gangs (also in Scandicci) and Franklin, a little less opposite (at the initial Madisen Skinnor the former Conegliano Samedy) and central (Rettke and Hygieste) takes over. Italy is not the most beautiful view but it is very concrete and with experience and lucidity always recovers, even in the third set when it goes below four. Velasco uses the double change of luxury changes-anthropova and the blue come to the final, they cancel three sets set and close the first attempt with a megamur by Sarah Fahr who sends Italy to the semifinal