Hvidovre

Apparently last Tuesday’s Pokal match was the volleyball apocalypse. It was good we won and all, but it seems that everyone who was a part of that match ended up hurting themselves in one way or another. Geo and Paw and Per and Shaun were all definitely out for yesterday. Toke, who has been laying in bed for the last three weeks, made it back for one practice on Friday and went directly into the starting line up. Basically, we played yesterday with everyone who actually could play. Including Daniel at opposite. So, it took a little getting used to.

We played great in the first set. I don’t know if it was the fact that we didn’t have any time to think about what we were doing and we just played or that everyone was more focused because we knew we were playing a weird line up, but we won easily. Maybe Hvidovre was a little confused with what they were playing against, who knows?

The second set was obviously different, we didn’t hold the same level and Hvidovre played better, everyone messed something up in this set and that didn’t really help us. Unfortunately, even though we were fairly close, we gave up too many easy points and lost the set.

After this, we played better, more stabile and with fair pressure. It wasn’t always pretty, and we clearly couldn’t stop their opposite, but we did enough to win the match. Thinking back, I enjoyed the game quite a bit. It was fun to have to figure out a way to win a match in a kind of unorthodox way. We got good contributions from everyone at different times in the match so people stepped up when they had to. And it was also kind of exciting, the fourth set ended up 30-28 so there was a realistic chance that the match could have gone to five sets. I would imagine that Hvidovre feels they missed an opportunity to press us even more.

We can only hope that the Christmas break will give our guys a chance to heal. While it was fun to play this match, I don’t think it is the line up we want to use when we head to Germany or in the Pokal finals. That might make things difficult. But for now, we have to be satisfied with our position in the league and the way the season has progressed so far.