🇫🇷 FRA vs. 🇵🇱 POL - Highlights | Week 1 | Women's VNL 2024

Before the game officially begins. Well, I think she's down as a Libro, I think they just got it wrong. So the opposite is out to come in. It's just a complete mix-up with their rotation. Oh, good swing and a good pick up, but a little bit too much juice on that one for Giardino. Right across to Stysiak. This time showed the same thing. First time goes on the crosscourt, it's pretty much the only angle given how wide the ball was, but this time shows the cross, drew the block in to allow then she could have that line switch. Shoulders facing back to the nets, the ball's going to come that way. It's too low here. It's dropping way inside, that could go wider. Weeks and weeks and weeks. A lot of volleyball to be played between then and now. The men's competition not even underway yet. Stysiak tips that to Rotar, backcourt. Kievrovska digs that. Stysiak, another block. It's in close, but it's where she's tried to play the tip that's the issue. Lovely pick up from Koilum to keep it in play, but this this tip needed to be more to the left as we look at it, and it wasn't. She was second top scorer in game one behind Stysiak. Oh lovely, Giardino keeps the point alive and it's finished by MDI. It's Vaneska to serve. Into a best spot it goes. Oh it's another block and Poland starting to get the measure. Part of the attack here, number 23 on the right side. Watch, she goes, she's not part of the attack, but now she's just watching and not in game. 16-21. Served by Vaneska, helped over. Rotar, that's a good hand on that. Poland rescue. Schalke to Zyglowska. A little finger on that, had to be really careful. Malinga-Andela. Vinkovska opens the door. You can only assume that she's not going to be involved. Good pick up. The touch was there, but France alert to it. Cannot stop that from Galkowska. That's hot and it's set point. It's a set point though. France up to 20. Zyglowska passes it in. Marlena Kowalewska gets us underway. Schalke receives. An immediate block touch for Poland. That's a familiar story. Oh lovely work by Zyglowska and then Galkowska off the hands and Poland open with a point on serve. 2-3. Rotar goes again. Oh it's dropped in. Beautiful ace service from Amelie Rotar. Pass in this time. Corner lock is blocked one-on-one by Iwory. That's right, all of them. But a little bit of momentum here. Four points in a row. Can they keep it up? Well they might just do. Schalke. Oh no. Ouch. Iwory Luger. Menjik. Great contact by Menjik. It's a fantastic opportunity here at the VNL to really get some of that growth ahead of the biggest matches of their careers. But they're clearly looking long term because there's nobody in this roster over the age of 30. Look at Australia for example. They'll be looking at players now like 14 and 15. Kowalewska. Galkowska and then Lukasik. Rotar. Three-point game. Jardino. That's a really good touch from her and that's a really good touch from Ju. They're all waiting for the Libro to take it. Oh this is savage. This is absolutely savage. It's three aces in a row. It's going to be very very difficult. 22-14. Another tip. Another block and Galkowska gets in on the action. Four aces, six blocks, two attack points, 12 points. Welcome back to the game for Schalke. But a good swing and she picks up a point. Good recovery there. Here we go then. Set points. 24-15. Decent serve as well to Jardino. Here's the tip. Here's the swing. There is the block. How about that? Olinger and Ehler. 6-1. Luger feeding. Schickel and Schickel get stuffed. A bit of a block in master class aren't we? 13 blocks in total. Poland and then the ball's coughed up. Not a great first touch by Korneluk but she gets away with it. The biggest event they've ever played in and so it then any error you make feels like it's tenfold. You're coming under. Attack like that from Monika Galkowska. Throwing at it. Schalke with the serve. Chance to make it right. Take it. Kovalevska gets back underway. Maeva Schalke receives. Rotar gets blocked. Go the other way. It's the same result. Another block touch. Paczak. Lukasik for the same shot. Gets a different outcome. In the third. Damaske gets her first point and they love that. Players being given massive opportunities. Well they're players that we're going to be seeing over the next what? Damaske. Sechka. 20 points to 11. A service. Galkowska. Maeva Schalke. One ace in the match so far. One block. Five attack points. Kovska. Straight in the beak. Maeva Schalke. Received by Damaske. That's a nice touch. Far from ideal because it gives the initiative back to Poland but France hanging in there. Free ball offered up by Zickel. Another great touch by Schalke. Another block by Poland. It's a familiar story isn't it? Good swing back over on the first ball. Zickel who pulled the trigger. She's going to do it again but Poland still there. Piaszecka. Off the block. An attack and it was Poland in the end able to do so. The double figures. 10 points for her. Two aces. One block. Seven attacks. It's received by Damaske who brings us to match point at 24-16. Lucia Zickel. Still match point. Damaske receives and Joanna Paczak wins it for Poland.