On August 12, the 2022 Men's Volleyball Asian Cup launched the final round of the second stage of the rematch in Fo Thong Province, Thailand, and the Chinese men's volleyball team played against the Iranian national youth team, and finally won 3-1, ranking first with a record of three consecutive wins, and advancing to the top 4 again after 6 years. Bahrain, on the other hand, finished second with 2 wins and 1 loss, advancing to the top 4 of the Asian Cup for the first time in history. Although the Iranian team did not send the main force of the national team in this competition, but played as a youth team, the Chinese team achieved the breakthrough of defeating the Iranian team in the international competition for the first time in nearly a decade, which was quite morale-boosting.
This year's Men's Volleyball Asian Cup, after experiencing a series of twists and turns of postponement and relocation, finally started in Thailand, and the Chinese men's volleyball team from the beginning of not participating, to make up for the competition, sent the national team to participate in the full force, for the World Championships to train. In the group stage, they defeated Chinese Taipei and Bahrain 3-1 respectively, and the first team in the group advanced to the top 8, and in the rematch stage, they were in the same group as Iran and Pakistan to compete for the final four places. In yesterday's showdown with Pakistan, the Chinese team performed normally, swept smoothly 3-0, won the promotion initiative, and basically locked in the top 4 seats.
Today's showdown with the Iranian team, although not the Iranian national team in the World Men's Volleyball League before, replaced by an Iranian national youth team composed of all post-00s. The Chinese team is still prepared for difficulties, in the best state to meet the battle, the first two sets 25-19, 25-22 successfully won, the third set appeared to fluctuate, lost 21-25, the fourth set was completely controlled by the Chinese team, easily won 25-16, and finally won the big score 3-1, won the asian cup four consecutive wins, as the first in the group to advance to the top 4.
It should be known that the last time the Chinese men's volleyball team defeated the Iranian team in an international competition, it goes back to ten years ago, in the 2012 Asian Cup, the Chinese team led by Xie Guochen at the time defeated the Iranian team 3-1 in the final and won the Asian Cup for the first time. But in the following ten years, the Chinese men's volleyball team fell into the spell of Iran's winless, even if the national team changed a few stubble people, it is still unable to rewrite the history of consecutive defeats, this year the two teams met in the World Men's Volleyball League, and the Chinese team lost 1-3. Now, in the Asian Cup, the Chinese team faced the Iranian national youth team, broke the spell, and finally won a precious victory.
Strong promotion to the top 4 of the Chinese men's volleyball team, will meet the second place of the rematch E group in the semifinals, after yesterday's second round of duels, the four teams Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Australia are 1 win and 1 loss record, there is a possibility of promotion, today's final round of showdown will become a life and death battle, who wins who qualifies! With Japan sweeping Thailand 3-1 and locking in the first place in Group E, South Korea will compete with Australia for the last promotion place, from the overall strength point of view, South Korea is better, not surprisingly, can defeat Australia, take the last top 4 seats, at that time, they will play against the Chinese team, compete for a final seat.