World Volleyball: The Blues and Tillie overcooked by Germany – Sports.fr

obviously still under the disappointment after their heroic semifinal against Brazil, the Blues have been the law of Germany, on Sunday in Katowice at Early World Cup final 2014 A defeat in straight sets (21-25, 24-26, 23-25).

Benjamin Toniutti, the captain of France, promised a fight for the bronze on Sunday. A fight among the most difficult to conduct, says Laurent Tillie in his pregame speech, “ because after a semi-final loss, it is always difficult to regroup to get a medal ” . Is the backlash of disappointment experienced yesterday against Brazil? Still, the Blues have not found the key that allowed them to dominate three sets to the same Germans five days earlier on the road last four.

Too shy to initiates debates – an ignition delay that had cost them dearly already facing the Seleção selection – the French have suffered the brunt of the physical impact of their German counterparts, wide awake to them. Spurred bulldozer Gyorgy Grozer and metronome Sebastian Schwarz, Germany stands inexorably in the first set (15-18) to pocket the set with a score of 21-25, in 23 minutes. El Tri are not there, like a Kevin Le Roux and a Antonin Rouzier as most impactful ordinary one knows.

In the second act, Earvin N ‘ Gapeth and Nicolas Le Goff well try to ring the revolt, the points are more hung, but the team of Laurent Tillie behind the stick to be beaten in the “money time” of the set, on his sinning suddenly put into play. Once again, the Germans have the last word: 24-26. The break is then welcome to the Blues stunned the field of Spodek Arena. After the break, Earvin N’Gapeth is again on the loose at the service but the rally was short-lived …

Despite the good input Mory Sidibé and a symbolic gesture that allows the France to go from 17-21 to 20-21, teammates Jenia Grebennikov eventually let go, hardly helped by a turnaround in the decisive fourth official in the third round – then the score from 22-22 to 21-23 after video of a matter under analysis. In the process, Denys Kaliberda do not pray to clear the winning smash (23-25), and finally to provide a unified Germany a world medal – the first for a German team since 1970 and the coronation of the GDR in Bulgaria . Third in the 2002 World Championships, the team of France fails this time off the podium, with an aftertaste of unfinished business that must not, however, overshadow the great epic of a well-born group that is now looking forward to Rio in two years.