USA (w) vs Serbia (w) Prediction: There is a feeling that the Serbian athletes' legs will not hold them well today

For the last group stage game against Turkey, the Serbian national team manager fielded the main squad. However, that game's result was of no importance to Serbia. The Italian may have made a mistake that will return to haunt him.

As expected, the Americans easily defeated Turkey in three games. 13:9 in blocks, 4:0 in aces, while the USA national team was not that fierce in the serve - just seven errors.

Of course, Andrea Drews, America's leading opposite player, is no Boskovic at all. She is much less effective on the attack. For example, in Turkey, she scored 11 goals out of 35 attempts on the attack. But she gave her opponents only two points through her attack. Frantti and Robinson made slightly more frequent errors, but they still gave Turkey far fewer than the Serbians did to Poland.

It can be assumed that in the face of fatigue, Serbia will play less cleanly than the USA, and the number of their errors may well be the deciding factor in this game.

Daniele Santarelli's team had more bad luck than the Americans - they started yesterday's quarterfinal game against Poland later than anyone else, and Poland also took them down. It became clear at the end of the fourth game when Serbia led by 23:19 and was only two points away from winning the match. But the Serbs lost the game and probably would have lost the whole match if not for a horrible mistake on the match point in the fifth set by the Polish player-player Maria Stenzel.

Poland beat Serbia at 10:14 in point blocks and 2:5 in aces. The team leader Tijana Boskovic (36 points total), attacked 15 times in the third game, scored nine points, and made only one error. But in the fourth set, with the same 15 attacks, Tijana had seven points and three errors. It is clear that everyone is getting tired, and the Serbian opposite spiker is not an iron player either, but will she be able to recover?

In the fourth zone, the Serbs are still in trouble - 12 points from 30 for Mihajlovic with eight errors and a dreadful two from 14 for Busa with four errors. That's how the Serbian women play - 14 points in 44 attempts for themselves and 12 for their opponents.

Anyway, my thought is simple - I'm not sure the Serbian volleyball players can walk after yesterday's battle with Poland, so I'll take the straight US win. Here's what I picked:

• W1 for 1.83;
• Handicap 1 (-0.5) for 1.90;
• Correct score 3-1 for 4.25.

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