16 April 2013

Polish national team play great in the 2013 CEV Youth Volleyball European Championship-Boys. On Sunday in the second match of Pool I in Laktasi defeated Belgium 3:0.

Belgium vs. Poland 0:3 (12-25, 13-25, 21-25)
 
Poland succeeded in maintaining a perfect record after its second match in Pool I in Laktaši.  This time the team around head coach Wieslaw Czaja shut out Belgium in 67 minutes of play.  Captain Bartosz Bucko contributed a fantastic 23 points to the winning tally of his team.  Substitute player Robbe Vandeweyer was Belgium’s top scorer with 8 points.
 
Poland’s powerful serving and almost unstoppable attacks (82% success rate) completely demolished the opponent in the first set.  Bartosz Bucko was putting one ball after another on the floor to pile up a huge advantage in Poland’s favor, while Pawel Gryc’s blast through the middle shaped up the final 25-12.
 
The story pretty much repeated in the second set.  Once again, Poland completely dominated on the court and did not allow any doubts over its superiority.  And again, captain Bucko was very prolific in widening the gap to get to an easy block by Rafal Szymura that finished it off at 25-13.
 
The first half of the third set was Belgium’s time in this match.  Its efforts in offense started paying off and coach Steven Vanmedegael’s players took control over the scoreboard.  However, Poland confidently kept close behind and between the two technical time-outs managed to take the lead.  Once again Bucko spearheaded his team’s attack and scored 8 points for the eventual 25-21.
 
Steven Vanmedegael, head coach of Belgium: “We expected a difficult game today, so the result was as expected. Poland has a really good team and we did not play as well as yesterday. We made a lot of mistakes, but we knew Italy and Poland were favorites in our pool, so I am happy we won against Italy yesterday.”
 
Sebastian Pawlik, assistant coach of Poland: “We played really well today.  We had good reception, we served well... In the next match I hope we are going to play as well as we did today because our game was really good.”
 
Bartosz Bucko, captain of Poland: “We played our best game, and if we continue playing this well, we can win this tournament. I think the Belgian team can go to the next round if they continue to play as well as they did today.”
 
Sander Depovere, captain of the Belgium: “They were better than us today. We made mistakes in serving that we did not make yesterday, but we only have to win against one more team to go to the next round. We played two difficult matches and won one of them, so it was not bad.”
 

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