The Brazilian chick who knocked down China after Five set
Opening the third game of the VNL 20 contest is a match between the two team and the third world's team: Brazil and China. Just as expected for the audience, both teams have donated a full-scale match with unpredictability.
Captain Gaby was the brightest star in the first set. She scored important points in a row and broke the first step of the Chinese team with a powerful spike. Facing the strong Brazilian dunk, China played in a mess in the back row, which became the weakness of opponents. The Asian team tried to save two counts in the last few minutes, but after Gaby scored on the 3m line, they still couldn't avoid losing 20-25.
China played a lot better in the second set when the shield worked effectively to partially overcome the weakness of step 1. They even had a moment to take the lead and were very close to winning. However, Brazil's stars spoke at the right time: Libero Natália Araujo shone with timely saves, while captain Gabi again scored the decisive points, giving Brazil a 2-0 lead.
When Brazil was thinking about a victory with a score of 3-0, the time when coach Cai Bin's army showed his stubbornness and bravery. The changes of people have worked, before the ability to play on the extremely good net of the duo Gong Xiangyu and Wang Yuanyuan, Brazil began to face difficulties when Gabi showed signs of exhaustion. Although Kisy has replaced the role of the captain's main point, but before the spirit of China, Brazil continued to lose points in the last minutes and lost with a score of 25-18.
Failure in Set 3 made Brazil no longer retain calm, they made quite a lot of errors in set 4 and let China always be in the leading position. José Roberto Guimara's adjustments helped Brazil somewhat regain the feeling of the ball, but China was still extremely strong, they maintained the 5 -point gap until the last minutes and made the match forced to enter the set. 5.
Unfortunately, in the final set, the weakness of step 1 as well as the lack of mutations of the passes of the two sides of China were once again clear, and Brazil did not miss the opportunity. A brave Brazilian image both in attack and defense in the first two sets was once again recreated, and the South American team had a 3-2 final victory after the ball score of Gabi ( The set ratios are 25-20, 25-23, 18-25, 21-25, 15-11).
Brazil did not show an advantage against China, but they were still the ones to enjoy the joy of victory thanks to the star sparkle: captain Gaby scored nearly 30 points, while assistant Carolina and free agent Natalia Araujo showed defensive certainty and saved countless times for the Brazilian girl.
Beating China, Brazil firmly holds the tickets to the quarter-finals of VNL 2022. They will try to amass points in the final rounds when they meet only underrated rivals such as South Korea, Bulgaria and Thailand.
