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Volleyball » World Championship Qualification (W)
02.10.2013. 14:00 Finished
Greece - Hungary (1:3)

Hungary missing five of their best players

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Hungary can hardly qualify for the next round with so many absences. If they were with their full squad, they would be favourites against Greece. This way, Greeks even have a chance to open the qualifiers with a win

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The second round of World Cup qualifiers will be played until Sunday in the Israeli town of Raanan. The competition system does not allow anyone to rest, matches take place every day, every team against every other. Three first-positioned teams will qualify for the third qualifying round, which will be played in the beginning of January 2014.

Greece were very close to qualifying directly for the third round. However, after they came close to a 2-0 lead against Slovakia, they eventually lost that key match 3-1 and ended up in the second qualifying round. They rejuvenated their team last year, they decided to give younger players an opportunity, thus putting the result on the line. Time itself will show if they chose the correct path; the team is young and full of perspective. The main players are Chantava and 28-year-old Kiosi, the oldest player on the team. 

- We should always be optimistic, it is hard to make predictions, we are facing five matches, some will be harder than we expect, some easier. We have videos of all opponents, but we don't know for sure what kinds of squads will arrive to Israel. We will only know on Tuesday evening. There are still things we need to improve in our play, but that always takes more time - Greece selector Kalmazidis said prior to the Israel trip. 

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Of all the participants in the qualifiers, Greece came first to Israel. They have been preparing for this tournament for over a month, they played several friendly matches against Greek clubs. According to interviews, they are better prepared than for the first round. Compared to that first round, receiver Ivanova and libero Kelesidou are missing, while Merteki is back in the team, after being out to injury in the first round. 

We can say that the quality of Hungarian female volleyball increased in the last couple of years. However, they are still not close to the best European teams. they made progress thanks to appearing in the European League, which didn't bring a good result, but it did provide them with experience. Besides, they didn't change a lot during the years, so one could say they have continuity and coordination. 

They fulfilled their goals in the first qualifying round; they qualified for the second round by beating Moldova and Albania. They couldn't do much against the hosts Ukraine, they lost the deciding match in Lutsk 3-1. After that, they played the European League in June, finished at the bottom of their group alongside Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey's B team. In the 12 matches, Hungary won twice, once against Romania and once against Turkey. We should say that injuries didn't spare them. By the time the competition ended, they lost four of their first-team players. 

Hungary will enter these qualifiers very much weakened as practically all of their best players are absent. The best player Horvath  and receiver Dekany are out to injury. The setter Milovits, receiver Lilliom and middle blocker E. Nagy will miss the tournament due to club obligations. 

- Unfortunately, we will be missing a lot of important players, so things will be harder, but if the players I have at disposition play to the best of their ability, we are capable of qualifying for the third round. Unfortunately, we didn't play a single match with the current line-up, the match on Wednesday will show how much this team is worth. We are playing the first match against Greece, who we didn't observe yet, so we are on unknown ground - said the selector Hollosy prior to his team's departure to Israel. 

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Greece Hungary
Absent players
  • Ivanova, Kelesidou

  • Horwath, Dekany, Milovits, Lilliom, E. Nagy

Match winner tip: 1   Al Pacino
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2.38 6/10 1.80 Bet Victor
Hungary is very weakened. They will have a tough time againsta Greece without with five, by my opinion, key players. Horvath is Hungary's best player for years, Milovits is the first setter. Add reliable setters Lilliom and Dekany to the list together with hitter E. Nagy and even those less aquainted with volleyball will realize just what a handicap this is. If one so wishes you may want to add the absence of the experienced libero Toth who played in the first round of qualification but was left out this time. On the court there will be players who are part of the national team for years but it just isn't it. They practically haven't played together even in training. Collective play is very important in volleyball and another fact is that the replacements sitting the bench are not as good as those that are missing. To make some things clear, Greece is no super power, but they are by far the more organized. They spent al lot of time together in training and they have experience of previous rounds which will give them advantage in this match. Comparing the line-up which we'll see today, Greece has more individual quality and there should be no argument on collective play. The Greeks took these qualifying seriously and as their head coach says the scouting was done well. The Hungarian coach stated that the Greece team is completely new to them and if he isn't lying by the time he realises who he's dealing with it'll be 1-0 for the Greeks. Bottom line, better preparation, more individual quality, better scouting for the game all point to a higher stake put on Greece's win.
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