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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. Woori Card's Kim Ji-han is cheering after scoring. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. Woori Card's Nikolic is cheering after scoring. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. Woori Card's Park Jin-woo is cheering after scoring. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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Woori Card marked the last day of 2024, which was difficult, with a pleasant victory.
Woori Card won the set score 3-1 (24-26, 25-22, 25-18, 25-21) in the third round of the men's V-League at Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul on the 31st.
It was a clash between two teams that experienced sluggishness in the third round. With the victory, Woori Card jumped to fourth place with 9 wins and 9 losses and 24 points, beating Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (23 points). Choi Seok-ki, who held his retirement ceremony on this day, also became a winning fairy and was able to say goodbye in a good mood.
Kim Ji-han (17 points), Nikolic (17 points), Ali (15 points) Triangular squads performed evenly, and Park Jin-woo (10 points, 5 blocks) and Lee Sang-hyun (10 points, 4 blocks) overwhelmed the blocking fight 17-7. Mateus (22 points) struggled for KEPCO, but it was not enough to turn the game around.
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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. Choi Seok-ki, who has a retirement ceremony, is taking a commemorative photo. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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For Woori Card, it is a season that started enthusiastically by recruiting Mauricio Paes, a Brazilian-French coach. Despite the bad news of foreign player Ahi's injury season out, he washed away the sluggishness of his last three consecutive losses and finished the first half with a 50% win rate with the performances of Asian quarter Ali and native ace Kim Ji-han. It also followed KB Insurance, which ranked third, by two points.
Korea Electric Power Corp. is the same team with foreign players out of the season. He won the opening five consecutive games under coach Kwon Young-min's direction, but it subsided with the injury of foreign player Elian. He faced the disastrous reality of 3-10 losses after Elian's season out. The situation is getting worse with two wins and four losses in the second round and one win and five losses in the third round. The new foreign player Matheus has yet to change the trend.
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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. KEPCO Mateus cheers after scoring. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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Coach Paes Woori Card, who met before the game, said "It's an important game for both teams. We have to show our players as confident and free play as they used to."
In the end, foreign players playing in Apogit are important leagues. "Our Nikolic, KEPCO Mateusz, and Korean Air's Maxim and Yosvani are all in the same position. "However, Nikolic is a young player. I look forward to getting back to my true self. In particular, he emphasized blocking and serve.
Kwon Young-min, the coach of KEPCO, said, `I can see what the players want to do from the match against Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (one win after four consecutive losses). You can win or lose volleyball, but you also have to lose well when you lose. I think that kind of mind became a medicine."
Then "Everyone has a crisis. We'll think it's good that we're here at the beginning of the season. "In the All-Star break, we're trying to give players a break to get injured and take care of their physical strength. While there were no foreign players, there was a lot of pressure on domestic players such as Seo Jae-deok and Lim Sung-jin." Seo Jae-deok was still in pain, so rookie Yoon Ha-joon was hired instead.
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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. Woori Card manager Mauricio Paes is giving operational instructions. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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Woori Card suffered an unexpected upset at the end of the first set. In the middle of the set, he tied the opponent's mistake, Park Jin-woo's blocking, and Lee Sang-hyun's serve ace to turn it over 12-11, and then continued his momentum and led 22-19.
Here, Korea Electric Power Corporation's Shin Young-seok's fastball, two serve aces, and Lim Sung-jin's blockings were handed down one after another to allow the 22-23 reversal, and gave up the first set as it was.
Still, it didn't shake. Kim Ji-han led the lead early in the second set, and Nikolic and Lee Sang-hyun kept the score gap strong. At the end of the set, Kim Ji-han scored again, bringing the game back to square one.
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| V League match between Woori Card and KEPCO at Jangchung Gymnasium on the 31st. Woori Card Ali is cheering after scoring. Jangchung = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.12.31/ |
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Even in the third set, Woori Card's momentum did not subside. At the beginning of the set, Nikolic and Kim Ji-han led the atmosphere by hitting a series of serve aces. Ali survived and won the set without hesitation.
Woori Card, which was leading 8-2 at one point in the fourth set, slowed down, trailing 10-8 by KEPCO's counterattack. However, the defensive organization was revived, and Nikolic and Kim Ji-han blocked the atmosphere. In the second half of the set, serve and blockings came to life at once, overwhelming the court. In the end, Woori Card, which did not miss the victory, broke its three-game losing streak and won the last night of the year.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
