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Congratulations to Serbia!!!
Truly deserve it...
Congratulations to the MVP Milikovic, no doubt about that! and he is actually look like an Actor, HUGH JACKMAN...

To Mikhailov, I think he deserves those two awards. Congratz!

me too, i hope they won't fire him again... zenit-kazan must win...

Just a thought....

There's a reason why the word sportmanship is created, maybe because of the word sport? ?) And here we are on this very same page talking about volleyball, cheering on our favorite players and our favorite teams. I wish we could all be a sport on everything we write and say.

Congratz Poland!
Just like what I've said earlier, Russia may have all the skills, but they needed to be mentally prepared on this one.
Good job Mikhaylov!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0gIRT6buoA

Yeah K, I think you're right, Apalikov is not that bad, i think he even made a score on that 1st set, but I just thought, that maybe if DM is there, they might have a better defense and offense... just a thought ?

So, is Coach Alekno both unsatisfied with his setters? why did he chose to get Grankin back in the 5th set?

I don't think it was the referees' mistake. It is just a matter of who's spirits are going to be broken first and it is clearly shown that Russia was broken and crashed. You can see that Russia is really showing some nerves on that game, really tense... quick sets are not working, a lot of service errors, tentative on their spikes and even wrong timing of blockings, and how many match points has been saved by Serbia? This is very unusual for the team. Plus Serbia is playing great with heightened spirits. But I am still a very big fan of Russia, they just cannot win all the games. And it happens, they got to learn to accept it, move on, learn from it and be a better team next time.
They have to be equally physically strong and mentally tough. Serbia's kapitan is a great morale booster, Taras should do the same for the team as what he did in their game against Bulgaria. Every sport is a mind game, someone has to step up and give boost to the team. I was so disappointed because Russia could have won the 4th set.... I even stay up late to watch the game even though I recorded it and planned it to watch on the next day, it's about 2am here in SG.
But there are two things I wanted to add, not to blame, but just an observation... First, I think Coach Alekno should not change his original line up, the first six, it should have been Muzerskiy rather than Apolikov, there will be greater chances of winning the first set. Secondly, substitution of Grankin from Butko? He may be lucky in the WL, but still not enough skill especially in receiveing. Then placing back Grankin again on the grunge time? tsk tsk tsk

I still love Maxim Mikhaylov, for me he's my MVP :-)
They didn't loss because of that last point, I think they loss because they weren't able to win the 4th set and lost confidence going to 5th set.

Every sport is a mind game, I just wished that they will be mentally prepared against Poland.

Go Russia!