Woori Card Kim Ji-han’s Roar
Men's volleyball Woori Card beat Korean Air and regained the league lead.
Woori Card won against Korean Air with a set score of 3-0 (25-19 25-23 26-24) in the Dodram 2023-2024 V-League men's visit match held at Gyeyang Gymnasium in Incheon on the 30th.
Woori Card, which had been leading the league all along but lost first place to Korean Air for a while due to two consecutive losses, leapt back to the lead, overtaking Korean Air with this win.
The two teams have the same number of points at 25, but Woori Card (9 wins, 3 losses) is ahead of Korean Air (8 wins, 4 losses) in terms of wins.
Woori Card, who won the first round match after a fierce battle with a set score of 3-2 in 2 hours and 45 minutes, the longest time ever in the men's division, had an easy time in the second round rematch.
What decided the flow of the game was Woori Card's first set upset.
They were down 16-19, but then scored 9 consecutive points to beat Korean Air without mercy.
The main character was Han Tae-jun, a 19-year-old setter from Woori Card.
At 16-19, Han Tae-jun blocked Jeong Han-yong's attack and won the right to serve with a blocking score, then broke down Korean Air's boasting receiving with a variety of serves.
At 17-19, when Taejun Han started serving, Woori Card scored 8 consecutive points, along with 3 errors and 3 blocking points for Korean Air.
Woori Card maintained its advantage even after Korean Air reorganized its battle line in the second set.
At 23-20, he was chased by one point with two errors, but Matei Kok (registered name Matei) ended the second set with two hard hits.
Woori Card had a huge comeback drama in the 3rd set as well.
It was pulled to 21-23, but two hard hits from Matei and an ace from one-point server Jeong Seong-gyu made it 24-23, a match point.
At 24-24 deuce, Mattei's hard hit hit the court, and at the end, Korean Air's Lim Dong-hyuk committed a back-attacker foul, giving Woori Card 3 points.
Woori Card had an absolute advantage in blocking with 13-5, and Matei and Ji-han Kim played well with 18 points each.
For Korean Air, Lim Dong-hyuk, who replaced the underperforming foreign player Lincoln Williams, scored the most points on the team with 17 points, but Lim Dong-hyuk made a fatal mistake at the last minute. 19가이드03