🇵🇱 POL vs. 🇹🇷 TUR - Quarter Finals | Highlights | Women's VNL 2024

These are the starting sixes, no real surprises. The core of the Poland team made of the champions Chemik Pulidze, most of Turkiye from Vakif Bankos. Turkiye in the red, Poland in the white and the fourth quarterfinal is underway. Received by Lukasik, he's going to swing on that one and finds the line. Jurczyk, Karakurt again the target, Vargas, hard off the hands but fed back in by Stiszak. Corner look, it's a little bit tight to do anything with. Vargas, great! Lukasik keeps it up and Stiszak has a swing, the rally continues. Vargas, tips, brilliant. To throw in that tip at the perfect time to try to catch him off guard. Some of the defense from Poland there, incredible but all in vain. For this Turkiye team we saw in that match against China, 31 errors in five sets and then three sets against Brazil, 22. Around the corner again, put away by Ada. Saw them finish the prelims, better passes allow for that middle attack right in the gaps of the block. From Ojbaik, that went in to Lukasik with the pass, she's gonna tip to the middle and Urge is there. Karakurt, off the hands, great touch, oh keep it alive, yes! What a return but you can't do it again, Vargas reloads and that's a break point for Turkiye. Come on! They've really felt their way in, remember Poland have had a break point lead so we've had a five point swing already in this opening set but to the middle they go. But in order to open things up for their pen hitters they got to get those middles going just a little bit more, great time to do it. So changes inbound, Karakurt again the target, Vargas swings for the set and lands. Decided that she wanted that set to be over, it was essentially over, she went back to the service line tied at 18-18 and went on an insane run to bring them all the way up to 24. A six point run from the end line with that kind of serve, Poland's got to find a way to side out quicker because when you have Vargas in that kind of form it's absolutely unstoppable. Well she's just been given a life and one of these teams will be one and done in the finals. Turkiye leading Poland serving through Chinienska who's starting this second set, oh Vargas what are you doing? One of them coming flying through hitting it inside the three meter line, insane! That is illegal. The last thing you want is it looping in, goes the same way, Urge with a much better pass and Vargas Stysiak chases, has to go, Poland defends but back come Turkiye and Ada buries it. All right 17-14 Poland in charge, Poland in charge, Lukasik sets her every time but like feels like you might as well. Yeah what's the worst that can happen? She's young and fresh and sprightly come on. That's a good swing and again it's Chinienska. This not done yet, Karakurt on the angle, Vawos bends the back, Stysiak! In terms of blocking an incredible push allows her to hit up and over the block. She is class, of course somebody that Santorelli probably knows better We've seen it happen down 19-12 against Serbia, don't be surprised. Well they've been three up and five down in this set and here we are one point game, maybe level, Vargas with the tip and the touch we go again and it's over. Patience now for Poland, Stysiak off the hands, still alive, Kalach out to Vargas on the net at mid set point Poland. Stysiak for the set, the quarterfinal Jurczyk and Stysiak. A little ice on the ankle hopefully not too serious, oh what a serve over on ball one, Karakurt on the pipe thank you very much. When she gets kills like this it feeds the entire team with how much energy she brings. Rok Mozyc did that in the VNL last year and it's the only time I've ever seen it. Oh an ace, corner look, that's enough to get you a speeding ticket in most countries. Oh Stysiak what a dig by Vargas, Karakurt blocked by Stysiak in his back and forth and brilliant and brutal. Into Wołosz, straight back to Czernianska, cross court, Karakurt does go for it this time to play it, might have been going long we'll never know and it doesn't matter because Corneluk, look at Stysiak, good pass, good block, Stysiak set point Poland. On the fourth of this third set just forming a wall, hands so pressed over. And they've got a good few goes at it here Poland. From Czernianska. Maintaining that early break point Karakurt, it's a good serve but Wołosz really had to search for it but Stysiak. See for her to hit and she just rips it somewhere. To get that ball up and down when you've got the chance to turn one around you really need to take it and that's something that Poland didn't do in the first set and it cost them. That is Stysiak added Kalach now, better serve. On to Szyglowska, pipe attack's a good one, oh that's over, over, brilliant from Turkiye and again right on the net Corneluk blocks and Vargas returns on the free ball. Corneluk again, it's third time lucky for Poland but Turkiye throwing everything at that point. In it goes to Szyglowska, Corneluk go to one of your leaders and that's exactly what she is in this team. Wołosz has a little check over the shoulder, Corneluk makes the adjustment. If you're that frontcourt middle you've got to be so brave when she comes through on the pipe. That's an overpass, this fourth set is all but done. 18.24, third set point. Iwegin feeds it in, she's going to swing for the set, a huge block is going to come back, smart tech. Łukaszek floats that one in to Tuber Iwegin, she's going to swing for the set, it's still up. Poland hanging on, Iwegin again, is there a touch? Yes, there is a touch, Santorelli celebrates because we are going five. She's been incredible. Wołosz serves that on to Karakurt, Vargas, oh what an angle, that is outrageous. 2-3, heavy serve, good first touch, Vargas, oh that is huge, Corneluk levels it 3-3. 10.1, it's been incredible watching both sides make those adjustments on the block up front, Horneluk has stepped up big. Chinienska, another good serve but Urge looks comfortable, Vargas, oh they've backed, we're getting chippy out here, that's how bad these teams want it. Meanwhile Poland the opposite, they just have to side out, sounds simple, it is not simple because up steps the captain, Ada gets one back on Corneluk. This is Turkey's best front line with Karakurt, Vargas and Erdem up front. Łukaszek, eye catch with the touch right on the net tape and it's a free ball, Chinienska can't do a job, Sahin, another good block touch, Urge is there, Vargas, oh but it's not done yet, in it goes to Urge by Tuba, oh it had to be played by Vargas, Tuba again and the champions are out through to the semi-finals, there's no block touch, Poland celebrate for a second time, sensational, the pendulum swung one way then the other.