07/29/2021 12:14 AM
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Updated 07/29/2021 12:14 AM
The Argentine women's volleyball team lost against Italy 3-0 (25-21, 25-16 and 25-15), in their third Group B appearance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The Panthers, who are playing their second appointment of the five rings, they could not with the level of the Italians, world runners-up and
medal candidates
, and suffered their third fall in the tournament.
Cordovan
Yamila Nizetich
was the top Argentine scorer with 8 points, followed by Erika Mercado (7) and Daniela Bulaich (6), while the top scorer of the match was
Paola Egonu
with 17. Egonu, of Nigerian roots, is the best attacker in the world. world and one of the six athletes who carried the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony with the judoka Paula Pareto.
The team led by
Hernán Ferraro
, which in these Games seeks international contact after
not having had official activity since its qualification to Tokyo in January 2020
in Colombia, debuted with a 3-0 defeat against the United States and then fell in the second date against the Russian Olympic Committee 3-0.
Reflections
The Italian Paola Egonu punishes in attack: Nizetich and Lascano are unable to block.
AP Photo / Frank Augstein
"
It is difficult for us at this level,
we know that they are one step above us. We seek our identity, grow with the competition and take advantage of it to improve," acknowledged Elina Rodríguez after the game, in dialogue with
TyC Sports
.
"We seek to go out and play outside to surround ourselves with them because 4 months in the National Team are
not enough for us
, and that is our main commitment, with the National Team," evaluated the Les Mariannes de France player regarding
the need for high-level competition
to who are part of Las Panteras.
Yamila Nizetich (left) is one of the Panthers who play in Europe.
Photo ANGELA WEISS / AFP
At the same time, Rodríguez made a reading of what the team can improve in this international scenario: "We lack much
more aggressiveness
, as Hernán (Ferraro, the coach) says and out there
lose respect
for these great powers a little, because we want it all the time but when it becomes difficult for us, I think
we lack a bit of rebellion
".
Against Italy, which is
undefeated
and first in the zone with three wins, Argentina formed with Victoria Mayer, Erika Mercado;
Bianca Farriol, Julieta Lazcano;
Yamila Nizetich and Elina Rodríguez.
The libero was Tatiana Rizzo.
Later Antonela Fortuna, Daniela Bulaich, Sabrina Germanier, Eugenia Nosach and Candelaria Herrera entered.
The next match of Las Panteras will be
at dawn on Saturday 31st
(at 2:20 am in Argentina) against Turkey and at the close of the first phase they will face China - defender of the Olympic gold - on August 2 at 4.25.
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