Dutch volleyball players at the World Cup also too strong for Puerto Rico, place in the second round is in | Other sports
With videoThe Dutch volleyball players also won their third game at the World Cup in their own country. The Orange had to give up a set against Puerto Rico in Gelredome in Arnhem: 3-1. The set positions were 23-25 25-20 25-16 and 25-15. Previously, the Netherlands had won 3-0 against both Kenya and Cameroon.
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28-09-22, 23:10
The Orange is therefore certain of a place in the second round. The team of national coach Avital will come to another level with Belgium on Friday, followed on Sunday by a duel with great Italy. All points from the first group stage will be carried over to the second round, which will be played in Rotterdam.
The Netherlands, which organizes the World Cup together with Poland, was fourth in the World Cup four years ago. Reaching the quarter-finals is the first goal with a strongly rejuvenated team.
Selinger started the same base as in the first two games. The team with Celeste Plak, Juliët Lohuis, Anne Buijs, Britt Bongaerts, Nika Daalderop, Eline Timmerman and Libero Myrthe Schoot started energetically, but halfway through it was equal again (13-13). In the final phase it went wrong for the Orange that then had to come 4 points in a row; especially by Puerto Rico’s star Abercrombie Bretagne.
Buijs, top scorer in the first two matches, started halfway through the second set. Orange at 24-20 from a service from Daalder in the second set. Both attackers continued the line in the third and fourth set. The Netherlands did not get into trouble anymore and will sometimes think back to the first, sloppy set. Buijs, Daalderop and Lohuis each scored 16 points.
For the last duels in the group the organization found space to have the capacity of the main field in the space to some 10,000 seats. For the second round, the Orange squad moves to Ahoy in Rotterdam. Poland houses the other group in that phase. The quarterfinals are also divided between both countries, with Apeldoorn as the playing city in the Netherlands. The final will also be held in Omnisport on October 15 in that city.
Captain Buijs spoke of a team performance after a difficult start. “Maybe it’s good that you get that resistance. It shouldn’t all be too easy before you make really good teams. It is of course even ‘shuffled’ such an end of the first set and the beginning of the second. But we picked it up well.”
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