In the first phase of the world championship, the representatives of Poland were most often attacked by Bartosz Kurek, most effectively by Kamil Semeniuk, who has the most points in our team.

Poland is one of six teams that have won comprehensive group games. Besides her, Italy, Serbia, Brazil, France and the Netherlands have won three matches each. The Polish team has lost only one set so far, showing a very good disposition, which is confirmed by the statistics. Coach Nikola Grbić gave all 14 players a chance to perform, six of whom made their world championship debuts. They are Marcin Janusz, Kamil Semeniuk, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Tomasz Fornal, Mateusz Poręba and Jakub Popiwczak. For Paweł Zatorski, this is the third Volleyball World Cup.

In three group matches, the most effective Polish player was Bartosz Kurek, who scored 36 points. For comparison, the top-ranked Dutchman Nimir Abdel-Aziz scored 85 points. Kamil Semeniuk is two points behind Kurek and Mateusz Bieniek has scored 30 so far. In total, only the two Liberos have not scored points in the Polish team so far. Here are the achievements of the other Poles: Fornal – 18, Aleksander Śliwka, Jakub Kochanowski – 17, Kaczmarek – 10, Poręba – 6, Karol Kłos – 5, Janusz, Bartosz Kwolek – 3 each, Grzegorz Łomacz – 1.

Kurek has performed 50 attacks so far, gaining 27 points, which gives an average efficiency of 54%. He scored the most in a game against the USA (30 times) and the least – against Mexico (4). He attacked Semeniuk 38 times, and the result is 25 points, which gives a cosmic efficiency of 66%! Other statistics of the Polish representatives: Śliwka – 34 attacks, 16 points. – 47 percent, Bieniek – 30 – 19 points. – 63 percent, Fornal – 22 – 14 points. – 64%, Kochanowski – 19 – 13 points. – 68%, Kaczmarek – 15 – 9 points. – 60 percent, Kwolek – 6 – 3 points, Poręba – 4 – 2 points, Kłos – 3 – 1 points, Łomacz – 1 – 1 points. In total, Polish volleyball players made 222 attacks, scoring 130 points, an efficiency of 58%.

Semeniuk has the most aces in the Polish team – 7-7, followed by Kurek – 6 and Bieniek – 4. Serve was also scored by Janusz, Poręba (2 each), Śliwka and Fornal (1 each). Semeniuk has made the most games – 42 – of which only five have failed. Kurek served 38 times – (11 errors), Bieniek – 36 (5), Janusz – 28 (3), Kochanowski (26 (7), Śliwka – 24 (3), Fornal – 15 (5), Kaczmarek 10 (0 ), Poręba – 7 (2), Kwolek – 6 (0), Łomacz – 5 (0).

Poland scored 27 points with one block. In this ranking, Bieniek is the leader – 7 points, followed by: Kochanowski, Kłos – 4 each, Kurek, Fornal – 3 each, Semeniuk, Poręba – 2 each, Janusz, Kaczmarek – 1 each.

Accepting the serve (146 in total), Semeniuk is the most loaded, in which his rivals have sent 45 serves. Following are Śliwka and Zatorski – 29 each, Fornal – 18, Popiwczak – 10 and Kwolek 8. Kurek received servos three times, Bieniek twice, then Kochanowski and Łomacz. After bad games, the Poles lost 14 points.

Finally, the defense and counterattack statistics. During the Nations League, it was not a strong point of the Polish national team, but in the championship, our volleyball players have surpassed all their rivals so far. With Bulgaria, the Poles had 27 defenses, and the effectiveness of counterattacks reached 59%, with Mexico – 26 defenses – 50%, respectively. efficiency, and the biggest difference came from the United States – 43 balls conquered and 53%. occasions used for points. The rivals had only 30 defenses and 33% success rate in counterattacks.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE POLISH OPPONENT IN THE WORLD?

However, all that is history, and the Polish national team now faces the match against Tunisia (Sunday at 9 p.m. in Gliwice), whose stake is promotion to the quarter-finals.

* Data from Polish national team scout Marcin Nowakowski stats