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I think the solution proposed by someone is great but if we really have to keep the golden set I think it would be more fair to play it until 25 points.In this case the best team has more chances to prove it even if it's not the best solution.
And for this level of players, playing 5 sets + a 25 points golden set won't be that much of a problem (they won't be too much exausted)

Congratulations to Zaksa, they deserve the victory!
Rouzier made the difference in my opinion and the middles were unstoppable
I'm disappointed because Maaseik missed so much opportunities (3 match balls in 4th set etc)
They couldn't reach their best level but it's part of the sport, I will cheer for Zaksa in the next round against Skra.

1 Canada
2 Iran
3 The Netherlands

I think the winner of Trentino-Kazan is gonna take it and of course, like every year, Trentino is favorite.

1 Brazil
2 Russia
3 Bulgaria

1 Juantorena
2 Mikhaylov
3 Tetyukhin

Now concerning the dol I think the only good (by good I mean quite unpredictable) matchup is between Zaksa and Noliko
I think Zaksa might be stronger but Noliko has the home advantage for the golden set so...
All the others first ranked team should win quite easily.
The final 6 will be awesome!
Probably:
Kazan-Trentino
Noliko/Zaksa-Skra
Macerata-Cuneo

Setters: De Cecco, (Bruno)
Receivers: Juantorena, Murilo, (Kaziysky, Zaytsev)
Middles: Sidao, Volkov, ( Lucas, Muserskiy)
Opposites: Sanchez, (Grozer)
Liberos: Sergio, (Henno)

The rest of the team play very bad,Uros seems tired and don't play at his best too, morever serbs gave up after their inaugural defeat and they didn't want to play anymore...it seems like they didn't want to fight for victory...They lost most of the matches by themselves doing stupid errors or even letting the ball fall on the floor in reception especially...

They are out since the second day of competition xD
Serbia lost four out of their five matches by 0-3 so they take 5th place of the group and have finished their ECH...

Bulgaria deserved to go to semifinals...They are stronger than Turkey...Maybe Belgium won't be in semis too (with 4-1 record) so I understand your disappointement Chino...
Edit: We are in the semis! =) I'm really happy and I think it's well deserved,now we have a very difficult match against Spain in front of us...

Beautiful and extremely tense match between Turkey and Bulgaria 2-3 (25-22,25-22,26-28,25-27,15-17)
Two powerfull teams with Gungor and Sahin particularly impressive for Turkey and Velichkov for Bulgaria ;-)
I saw only the last three sets but I must say Bulgaria won because of better blocking and a strong side-out (good distribution of the setter).Turkey was resisting thanks to Gungor's one man show in 4th set and unstoppable Sahin in the middle. Bulgaria's weak point is their reception imo...
Congrats Bulgaria!
Final day will be extremely interesting! I don't want to explain all scenarios but Spain can still be first or second,Bulgaria too and Turkey can qualify instead of Bulgaria so tomorrow's matches will be real battles! =)

He doesn't want to and polish NT doesn't need him although he's very good.I mean you have some young and talentfull OH so why do you want Akhrem?
Work with your polish born players ;-)

I could watch the games with Poland (against Belgium and Italy) and Denmark (against Turkey and Greece)
Here is the link for Poland: http://www.siatkarskaligatv.pl/
Here is the link for Denmark: http://kanalsport.dk/
I also hope Laola1 will show the semi-finals and finals! =)

I think the polish team is much better than the italian one but polish guys were sleeping the first two sets (maybe tired after yesterday's battle?).When they started playing at their normal level Italy couldn't come back into the game.Now with six points Poland is well placed to take the second place of the group but it won't be easy since they have to play Russia and Serbia.

I hope we can reach the final! ;-) probably against Spain.

Strelec24 it is known since more than 1 month I think...

Thank you for those nice words ;-)
I also think we have a bright future ahead =)

Wilfredo_is_Marshall In fact we were better in all aspects of the game =)
Here you can see it by yourself: http://www.cev.lu/Competition-Area/MatchStatistics.aspx?ID=24629
By the way today we celebrated our second victory, this time against Poland 3-2 =)