Czechs lost the game in five sets, Bulgaria defeated The Netherlands, Serbia won easily

Day two in Sport Hall TJ Slavia Hradec Kralove started with the match between Croatia and Serbia. It was very tumultuous game. First half of the first set was even, but at 9:9, Serbia started to press and created a three-point lead, which they didn’t let go and won the first set. The crushing pressure of the Serbian players continued in the second set, and they won it easily.

The third set was even too, and Croatia led 21:16. But Serbia didn’t give up and finally won the set and whole match.

This game was close throughout. It was a see-saw match. In the first set, the Bulgarians were better in the end, in the second the Netherlands won, the third set won Bulgaria again.“It was difficult match with good team, after yesterday’s match, we really want to win today. We got out from difficult situation in fourth set. We won thanks to yesterday experience when we won two sets in the dramatic ends.” Said Bulgarian coach Diyan Boyukliev.

It looked, that fourth set went to the Netherlands players, but they forfeited six points leading, and in the very dramatic end, when decided every ball, they lost the game. “It was the fight, we wanted to fight, but we weren’t good enough for win. In some moments we fought back and gave them a chance to win.” Said the Netherlands coach William Klaver.

In the evening game played Germany and Czech Republic. Both teams lost their opening match yesterday and they want success today. The hall in Hradec was full of people and they were helping Czechs to play better. They crushed the opponent's game; the Germans did not know how to combine and made a lot of mistakes.

The Czech players won the first set easily. But in the second one, Germans improved on the blocks, the Czech players were bad at the communication and set was even. In the dramatic end, the Czech players were better and won the second set as well.

Third set had similar course, in the second half, the Germans created a three-point lead and then they didn’t lose it. In the fourth set, the Germans were clearly better, and the match went to a tiebreak. In it, the Czechs were able to compete only until the change of sides, then the Germans took the lead and won 15:10.

The second playing day of the CEV U17 Volleyball European Championship 2022 - Women in Pool II at the Prostejov taraflex of the local National Sports Center was no less interesting and dramatic compared to the first.

The opening match this time belonged to the world volleyball powerhouses, at the same time the medal favourites. And Türkiye had a bit of an upper hand over Italy for most of the game's top-level clash. The key was that after losing a 14-9 lead in the opening set, it turned away four set points in a row to turn from 20-24 to 27-25. The second set belonged to the excellently serving and blocking Turks convincingly 25:20, but then the Italians increased their accuracy and aggressiveness and returned to the match. Both by winning the third part (21:25) and by taking a lightning lead 0:7 in the fourth. However, the rivals were able to rise from the slump to dominate the rest of the set 25:18, making the whole excellent battle 3:1.

The second Sunday duel had the clearest course of the entire tournament so far. From 7:7, Poland launched an enormous onslaught with all activities, which Finland was unable to counter at all. And the favored team dominated the opening two acts with the same result of 25:12. Even in the third part, the Polish women had a significant lead (10:4), but then relented and allowed the revived Finns to turn the score around to 12:13. However, despite the own mistakes of the girls in white jerseys, the finish was 25:22.

What about a bank holiday dernier? The fans of both teams once again increased the loudness of their encouragement to the maximum, the stormy atmosphere was more indicative of Slovenia. Although after his successful start (25:18) the further development of the encounter was like a swing.

The second part was won by a no less emotional Hungary 22:25, which then led in the third as well by 12:20. However, even such a lead was not enough, as Šiftar ruled with an excellent smashing serve (22 points in total). She was joined by the similarly striking Pucelj (26) and after an impressive turnaround to 25:23 there was nothing to solve, the Slovenians led the entire match to a 3:1 triumph.