EuroVolley 2011 - Preliminary round

Does anyone know if there is a website like laola1.tv for the WL2011, where all the matches from the ECh are streamed live? Our local TV only shows the matches Russia participates in... thats definitely not enough for me?

sportlemon.tv

where can i watch this for free, with no virus?

sportlemon.tv is for free ?

I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

btw this timetable is a bit strange to me. Why only in Vienna there will be matches in the evening? On Mondey aren't people working at 18.00 in Czech? O.o

Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!!!! I want it to start, I want to watch excellent volleyball!!!

few hours guys, only few hours ?

Berruto about the teams in our pool:

Belgio: strong serve, strong attack, but most of all very agonistic spirit of the team in general.

Finland: there are few important personality that lead the team, first of all Mikko Esko that is actually the soul of the team, expecially from the tactical point of view, obviously. our goal will be understand him as much as possible to limit the hitters.

France: they are partially "new" for two reason: they have a new important player, Ngapeth, and they didn't perform very well at the WL, and when a good team doesn't perform well a the WL, there is always the need to proof his true value. Tecnichally, as always they express wonderful permormances in defense (and block-defense)

We... we are here hoping to surprise, to stay there until the 18th.
We did everything we wanted to did to prepare this ECh (the only little trouble was Zaytsev's injury), so now is the time to find out if it we planned these 5 weeks training in a way that will actually help the team. I'm proud that my guys enjoy being in this group and see the group as their best weapon. I like that, because the strenght of the group is smth everybody, even ifl expert about vb, can catch and love

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Go lions!

Let's get party started;-)

Numebrs and curiosity by Alessandro Antinelli (in www.dal15al25.gazzetta.it)

The oldest
SVK Richard NEMEC 39 anni, 4 mesi, 6 giorni
POR Manuel Silva 37 anni, 8 mesi, 12 giorni
SLO Sebastjan Skorc 37 anni, 6 mesi, 28 giorni
CZE Petr Konecny 36 anni, 6 mesi, 24 giorni
GER Stefan Hübner 36 anni, 2 mesi, 27 giorni
ITA Luigi Mastrangelo 36 anni, 0 mesi, 23 giorni

The youngest
AUT Lorenz Koraimann 18 anni, 4 mesi, 2 giorni
SRB Uros KOVACEVIC 18 anni, 4 mesi, 3 giorni
POR Ivo Casas 18 anni, 11 mesi, 19 giorni
BEL Sam Deroo 19 anni, 4 mesi, 11 giorni
EST Martti Keel 19 anni, 7 mesi, 10 giorni

the tallest
RUS Dmitriy Muserskiy 218
GER Robert Kromm 212
GER Marcus Böhme 211
POL Marcin MOZDZONEK 211
EST Oliver Venno 210
RUS Alexander Volkov 210

The lowest (eh, I'm not sure is the right tranlsation...)
FIN Jesse Mantyla 176
FRA Jean-FrançoisExiga 176
SLO Miha Plot 178
AUT Frederick Laure 178
POR Ivo Casas 179
CZE Martin Krystof 179

Highest spike reach
RUS Dmitriy Muserskiy 375
GER Georg Grozer 374
BUL Matey Kaziyski 370
ITA Luigi Mastrangelo 368
CZE Jan Stokr 368

Highest block
ITA Ivan Zaytsev 348
RUS Dmitriy Muserskiy 347
GER Georg Grozer 345
GER Stefan Hübner 345
BUL Teodor Todorov 345
BUL Metodi Ananiev 345
SVK Martin NEMEC 345
BUL Miroslav Gradinarov 345
GER Robert Kromm 345
SVK Emanuel KOHUT 345
CZE Peter Platenik 345
POR Joao Jose 345

Average age of the teams
BEL 24 anni, 0 mesi, 3 giorni
SRB 24 anni, 9 mesi, 4 giorni
FRA 25 anni, 4 mesi, 22 giorni
AUT 25 anni, 5 mesi, 10 giorni
POL 25 anni, 9 mesi, 3 giorni
RUS 25 anni, 9 mesi, 12 giorni
BUL 26 anni, 3 mesi, 22 giorni
GER 26 anni, 8 mesi, 7 giorni
TUR 26 anni, 10 mesi, 23 giorni
SLO 27 anni, 1 mesi, 0 giorni
FIN 27 anni, 1 mesi, 20 giorni
EST 27 anni, 3 mesi, 3 giorni
ITA 27 anni, 11 mesi, 11 giorni
SVK 28 anni, 3 mesi, 18 giorni
POR 29 anni, 0 mesi, 8 giorni
CZE 29 anni, 6 mesi, 5 giorni

Average highness
RUS 201,1 (what a surprise!! )
SRB 199,6
BUL 199,0
POL 198,9
BEL 198,1
TUR 197,4
SVK 197,4
CZE 197,0
ITA 196,9
GER 196,8
EST 196,2
SLO 196,0
FIN 194,6
AUT 193,8
FRA 193,7
POR 193,6

Belgio, Turkey, Slovakia, Portugal with only 12 athlets (by chance, one for each pool)
5 OH for Germany, Finland, Austria, Turkey, Portugal (Turkey and Portugal, with only 12 players, have only one opposite)

and about Italy-Belgium, image with the line-ups here:

http://dal15al25.gazzetta.it/post/25535278/alle-18-la-sfida-con-il-belgio

First thing to note: The sport halls are SADLY EMPTY (right now). I supposed that so little advertising could lead to this result. Let's hope for the following games...
And France wins the 1st set of these e.c.

probably halls will get fuller on further rounds...

Hey, Bulgarian friends, what was it? Slovakia recently lost with Iran. Get up and fight.

How are the matches going? At the moment Russia-Estonia 2:0, 2nd set was even until the late stage, some good serves of Mikhaylov made the difference.

here the live score, btw:

http://www.cev.lu/mmp/online/website/highlights/index_EN.html

Slovenia is leading 2:0 vs Austria, France 2:1 vs Finland, Slovakia 2:1 vs Bulgaria (all sets ended after 25), Russia got the girst victory of this ECh, beating Estonia 3-0.

that's it for now :)

edit: France won 28-26 ( leading 24-21! unfortunally Finland didn't make it!)

go, go Slovakia!

Slovenia won 3:0 over Austria! good job as expected ?

Now it's going on only Slovakia-Bulgaria, it's tie break.

WTF is wrong with Bulgaria ;(

gj Slovakia ? btw level of this match was really low

Well guys, we have the first surprise!

way to go Slovakia!!! well done))

Is no one else but Bulgarian users supporting Bulgaria here?

wow, compliments to Slovakia, it'sthe first of these 4 result I didn't expected.

Seems we can't undervalue the Europa League winner ?

Superb Slovakia - and no luck for us - to miss 3 match balls. The level of our play is bad too ... tommorow I expect clear win for Poland

Now it's time for Poland... A lot of depends on Gruszka (I hope he is back on shape, he can make a difference) or Jarosz (Maybe he's back to his good high reach spike).
We will see ?

Ooo, no, we were SO close to win the tie break!!! I can't believe it! And Matey did brilliantly in the last minutes......

@raylight
I support Bulgaria too ?

The cutted one is here again, ye?

Pastul, what is your problem and how do you want to deal with it? No one hates us like you do, even the people who dislike the team. Think about the amount of work done by Bulgarian users in this beautiful forum. What is your contribution - zero?

I think that usually neutral fans support theoretical weakness team and unexpected result is more exiting. It's first match, everything could happen, but it's shows that D group is very interesting and we could expect many emotions.

WHAT WAS THAT SET FOR MATEY FOR MATCHBALL?!?!?!?!?!
That really is the first surprise,there's always one...I just hope Slovakia plays that well with the other teams in our group and steals points from them,too...I knew we were too confident going into it...

raylight, come on, take it easy

the fact i'm happy for slovakia's win doesn't mean i'm happy for bulgaria's lose..
slovakia trully needed and deserved that victory.

in other games probably bulgaria will get my support,it's just a game there's nothing personal

edit: for me it wasn't that surprising, they were getting prepared long and zealously, they took first two sets, everything's fare

I don't have problems with user supporting our opponents, it's ok and normal, Russians, Polish, Slovaks and Czechs to support each other, my problem is with Pastul who obviously has some very bad feeling against Bulgaria which he transfers on our volleyball team as they have done something to him. That hate I can not understand - these are sportsmen, no matter from which country, they should be respected even if you don't like them as persons

Preach it,raylight ?

yeah,it's probably about Bulgarian-Turkish not pleasant history of relationships and i understand your offense.
but sometimes you really just take everything too close (i'm speaking about EVERYTHING, not only this turkish guy)..i'd better save my nerves if i were you

Home or away - Polish fans will crowd the arena ? I love it

This is good advice ? I should stop watching our team If I want to love life ?

Bulgaria lose ;( what a big dissapoinment, well,this is for show us that in this champioship, weak team doesnt exis. Slovakia??, good for they... i think tonight they will make a naked party, because win over bulgaria is the most important thing that they make in the last years besides win the 2011 euroleague.

P.S raylight calm down dude, nothing is imposible just hard to do its all. remember this is only the begining.

Fantastic match and in our flat were many many huge ovations after match ?)) our opponents dindt play their game. So we took the chance.

Yeah Revan this is the big step for slovakian volleyball in long history. After this match, everything in this group is possible.

Is it just me or is it as though Poles are hosts ? I just watched Poland-Germany and Polish fans were sooo many.

Surprisingly good match of Polish team. But it would be very hard to play with this performance of our opposites with stronger opponents.

Italy won 3-1 over Belgio!

That was an hard match, and even if of course I'm glad we won, I didn't like at all how we started the match and how we played the 3rd set, always letting them came back... they had like 4 set points!
And also in the third set we were leading 20-10 and let them score many points in a row... but it's ok, at the end we managed to won the 3rd set at that was really important, so we could won the match and took 3 points.
Best player: I'll say Zaytsev, because he was the most constant. The commentators said Savani, but at the biginning I didn't like him... while later he woke up?

About Belgium, many many compliments to Veerhes, it's seemed he was always on court, the other MB almost didn't exist and he was magically always there! Depestele did very nice sets, also to Verahnammen he play fast and short sets really effective. I liked so much also the libero, and Van der Dries that played well the first set. Later he was replaced by Van Walle that did good but nothing... out of order, if I can say that (wonderful ace on Zaytsev, tough!), at least I had this impression. Deroo contribuite very well when the coach let him join the court.
Best player: Veerhes. or Depestele

I feel sorry for Bulgaria, as a team I always support the most because of players like Matey and Vlado (sometimes even too much compared to our national), but it's an obligation to beat Slovakia if you think about winning the whole tournament (of course they still have chances).

Matey did what he could today but even his great game is not enough for a solid team like Slovakia. Bulgarian MB lack firepower, Zhekov lacks precision, unstable reception, i might say nothing new, as those are the most common problems in Team Bulgaria, but today... it was a really bad match. I can't even imagine quarterfinals without Bulgaria, that would be strange and sad.

I won't be so peimistic like You.
Of course we have big problems, but Zygadlo had some good moments (not only bad) and our spikers scored some points, but their performance is under expectations. I think we can get to the semifinal, but there would be strong teams that can take advantage of our weknesses.

I have to say I was like OMG, what's going on? Where is our block, where is our confident serve, where's the attack that leaves no chance to the opponent? I know our team can do much much better, but in the first two sets Slovakia was conducting the game.
Anyway, we started afresh in the third set but somehow Slovakia always disturbed us with their good attacks by their MBs. There were some pretty impressive long rallies too. And in the tie break....we had 3 match balls.
What has passed has passed. I know we will play our game tomorrow.

Fiore,I was thinking the same thing about our block,while I was watching the match- turns out we were better than them only on block and serve,and we only served well in the 3rd and 4th sets.I really don't have much to say,Michal's post said pretty much all there is to say...Thanks for the moral support,Michal.I've noticed you are a big fan of our team,I deeply appreciate it :)
Here's the statistic from our match : http://bgvolleyball.com/files/volleyball/stats/6621.pdf
And congratulations to Berny,representing for Slovakia in the forum :)

@chrison this time Żygadło played exceptionally well but as you said he has too many innacurate sets.

I'm so happy we played a good game against Germany. Great performance of Kubiak and Kurek! Bombing serves of Bartek!

Zhekov lacks precision - He made two or three imprecise passes in the whole game

Serbia-Turkey 3-0

Poland- Germany 3:1

its something different for me support my country in something important like ECH. I always admire Matey and Vlado, because they are my idols and It was very different feeling for me to support my own country instead of these players. I am very happy now, finally ? lets see the next matches and I wish all of you good volleyball watching ?

I sometimes feel exactly like you, Berny, when we are against teams where some of my favorite players participate.

We need a point with Poland and 3 points against Germany

if Germany will lose also today (also 2-3), winning only vs Germany (also 3-2) will be enough to be third ?
I'm sure you will pass the pool phase!! ?

@Kk15, good for you... I'm not that sure ;(...
Today I predict awful game /and loose/ vs Poland, because of the shock the team has yesterday. That will be psychological match for us. And I think that if we loose it, we don't deserve to continue in the championship. Very important match today...

Well the Bulgarians might be dangerous as ever cause they have to win, but on the other hand they could not withstand the pressure. I hope for a piece of good volleyball and of course a win from my team.

Come on,SkyloIoannes,let's not be so negative ? I believe our guys are well prepared and will show a much better game today ?

btw for the bookmakers:
Russia 1,75
Serbia 7
Poland 8
Italy and Bulgaria 9
and at the end... Austria 250 !!! Poor guys!