Gentofte Match

After winning yesterday, I suddenly feel like writing about the match.

Coming into the match there were quite a few questions swirling around in all of our heads. With so many teams beating each other it has been kind of a crazy slutspil so far this year. But after last weekends beating and the beating we took in the pokal semi final before christmas, it was hard to tell what kind of level we were playing on. Were we good enough to beat the mid level teams but not good enough to beat the top teams? Well, while it doesn't mean too much yet, at least after playing a solid match yesterday, we know that we are headed in the right direction.

The match was fairly decent. Not the best volleyball of the year, but clearly, the level was much higher than last time we played each other in Marienlyst. We started out each set by spotting Gentofte four or five points as we seemingly couldn't figure out how to do anything until they had a little lead. But generally we would work back into the set and apply enough pressure to bring ourselves back into the lead. We sided out well and touched a lot of balls in defense, enough that we were bound to turn some of them into points after transition.

Passing was probably as good as it has been all year, partly due to Gentofte serving with less pressure than normal, and it was easy to run an effective offense. There were also some good opportunities to run combinations.

Overall I would say that Gentofte was slightly reserved and didn't look like they wanted to win as much as we did. Maybe because we had more to play for with the bad taste of the pokal semi still on our tongues. But whatever the reason, it was nice to win one over a top team. The playoff picture is certainly starting to look more and more interesting. Now it is all about getting ready for Aarhus next weekend and hopefully playing another good match...