In the 2023 World Men's Volleyball League, the Chinese men's volleyball team ushered in the third week of the schedule on July 4, moving from Rotterdam, the Netherlands to Pasay, Philippines. The opening match of the week is against the strong Japanese men's volleyball team. In this wonderful match, the Chinese men's volleyball team was full of hard work, but unfortunately the key opportunity was not grasped enough, and it lost to the Japanese team 2-3.
Chinese Male Exclusion 2-3 Japan Male Exclusion(26-24;23-25;25-21;23-25;12-15)
The current world ranking of the Chinese men's volleyball team is 22nd, and the world ranking of the Japanese men's volleyball team is 6th, which shows that the gap between the current world rankings of the two sides is still relatively large. The Chinese men's volleyball team won 2 wins and 6 losses in the first 8 games, of which 2 wins totaled 14.46 points, and 6 consecutive losses were deducted a total of 15.75 points, and the total number of points in the world ranking decreased by only 1.29 points. Therefore, after the first 2 weeks of competition, the world ranking of the Chinese men's volleyball team fell and rose back, returning to the original 22nd place. The Japanese men's volleyball team has won eight consecutive victories and climbed to sixth in the world rankings, and its overall performance is very strong.
In the first two weeks, the Chinese men's volleyball team did not perform well, narrowly defeating Bulgaria 3-2 in the first game, and then losing to Serbia, France, Iran, the Netherlands, the United States and Italy in a row, winning one win each against France and Iran in this wave of six consecutive defeats, and the remaining four games were swept by the opponent, but defeated Germany 3-1 in the future. The Japanese men's volleyball team has defeated Iran, Serbia, Bulgaria, France, Canada, Cuba, Brazil and Argentina in a row. The two sides have met 17 times in the FIVB, and the Chinese men's volleyball team has an advantage of 11 wins and 6 losses; In the World Men's Volleyball League 3 times, the Chinese men's volleyball team is not dominant in 1 win and 2 losses.
The Chinese national men's volleyball team is led by head coach Wu Sheng, and this week's 14-man roster is the same as last week, this game sent No. 22 Zhang Jingyin and No. 6 Yu Yuantai to partner the main attack, No. 15 Peng Shikun and No. 9 Li Yongzhen to partner the deputy attack, followed by the captain No. 2 Jiang Chuan, the second setter is No. 3 Wang Hebin, and the libero is No. 16 Qu Zongshuai. There are also No. 14 Zhai Dejun, No. 23 Wang Bin, No. 1 Wang Dongchen, No. 20 Rao Shuhan, No. 8 Guo Cheng, No. 18 Chen Leiqiao and No. 5 Yang Yiming on standby.
The coach of the Japanese men's volleyball team is French men's ranking leader Philippe Bryan, who turned from assistant coach in November 2021. In this match, Japan has 14-Yuki Ishikawa, 12-Blue Takahashi, 2-Taishi Onodera, 6-Akidai Yamauchi, 1-Yushi-Nishida, 8-Makoto Sekida starters, and substitutes such as 5-Tatsunobu Otsuka, 11-Masama Tomita, 10-Kentaro Takahashi, 28-Rad Ebad, 4-Kento Miyaura, 21-Motoki Nagaru, 13-Tomoya Ogawa, 20-Tomoya Yamamoto.
The Chinese men's volleyball team scored 54-63 behind on the smash and trailed 5-8 on serve, with 35 points more than the opponent's 32 points. Although the Chinese men's volleyball team has an absolute advantage of 17-5 in blocking the net, the first pass is not stable enough, and the adjustment level of the second pass is slightly inferior, which directly leads to insufficient efficiency on the offensive end. In addition, the Chinese team also has a relatively high error rate. Zhang Jingyin, the Chinese men's volleyball team, scored a game-high 21 points, but unfortunately it was reduced to an empty cut. In addition, Yu Yuantai scored 17 points and Li Yongzhen scored 16 points, of which Li Yongzhen scored 8 points alone. Yuki Ishikawa scored 19 points, the highest score for Japan.
Match Review
The first judge of the match was Kang Joo-hee from South Korea. The Chinese men's volleyball team started badly, directly trailing 2-6; Then Zhang Jingyin and Li Yongzhen Jiangong, the Chinese team bit the score to 6-10. After that, Japan stormed to lead 15-8 and maintained the advantage to 20-12; Then Wang Hebin and Li Yongzhen blocked the net to build merit, Jiang Chuan and Zhang Jingyin scored hard, and the Chinese team chased 18-22. After that, Japan won the set point 24-18, and the Chinese team then fought back strongly, scoring eight consecutive points to win the game. Zhang Jingyin scored 2 direct points in 7 consecutive runs + destroyed the opponent's pass in a row, thus staging a big reversal.
In the second game, the two sides continued to stalemate, Zhang Jingyin and Li Yongzhen attacked and scored, and the two sides glued to 8 draws; Then the Chinese team continued to make contributions at the end of the net to rewrite the score to 13-10. After that, the two sides pushed forward, Yu Yuantai and Li Yongzhen Jiangong led to 19-17; Then Japan scored four consecutive points to overcome, and the Chinese team scored three consecutive points after a timeout. Japan then scored three more points in a row to win the set point 24-22 and win 25-23. In this game, the Chinese men's volleyball team led 6-2, but the front block played well, and the key points behind could not be stopped. In addition, the smash 7-11 and the serve 1-4 show that the pass is not stable enough.
In the third game, the two sides held each other to 3 draws, and then continued to tug to 7 draws; Then the Japanese team made a mistake, and the Chinese team led 10-8; Then Yu Yuantai and Peng Shikun attacked and blocked Jiangong, and the Chinese team led 16-12. Since then, the Chinese men's volleyball team has held its lead, with Zhang Jingyin and Li Yongzhen scoring 20-16; Then Xiao Ri chased 21-23, Peng Shikun scored a fastball score, and the Chinese team won the game 24-21, and then Yu Yuantai served to score to end the game. The Chinese men's volleyball team led 3-1 in this game, led 14-12 in the smash, and it was very good to lose no points in one pass, and the error sent 8 points more than the opponent's 7 points.
In the fourth game, the two sides stalemated for multiple rounds, Zhai Dejun and Yu Yuantai made achievements in succession, and the Chinese team led 9-5; Then the two sides pushed forward and the Chinese team led 12-9. After that, the Japanese team chased 13 draws, and the Chinese team resisted at key moments, and the two sides advanced to 18 draws; Then Japan scored two points in a row, and China finally blocked the 22-21 rally. After that, Japan scored two consecutive points to win the set point and won 25-23. The Chinese men's volleyball team was reversed in this game, trailing 13-16 and leading 2-0 in the block, and the key loss was that the mistake sent 9 points was really too much.
The two sides alternately scored in the opening stage of the tiebreaker, Zhang Jingyin and Li Yongzhen made meritorious contributions to the Chinese team, and came round to 5 draws; Then the Japanese team scored three points in a row, and the Chinese team adjusted and finally scored, but then made a mistake and sent it back. After that, the Chinese team played a bit of confusion and failed to close the gap, so that the score was 9-12; Then Japan won the match point 14-11 and won the tiebreaker 15-12, and the Chinese men's volleyball team finally lost the match 2-3 on aggregate.
World Men's Volleyball League standings
The Chinese men's volleyball team only scored 1 point in this round, and the total score became 2 wins and 6 points, rising to 12th place. The Chinese men's volleyball team is far from the quarterfinals, but it is theoretically possible, but in practice it is still based on relegation. China are currently in a dangerous position and will play Slovenia, Brazil and Canada next, with the key match being the final round against Canada, as both sides are challengers, and the winner or defeat may directly determine the fate of relegation.
The Japanese men's volleyball team has a total of 9 wins and 24 points, five wins ahead of the ninth place, and it is clear that the Japanese team has enough results to seal the qualification for the quarterfinals in advance. At this point, two teams have been finalized for this season's quarterfinals, namely the Japanese men's volleyball team, which is the first to advance through the record of the tournament, and the Polish men's volleyball team, which automatically won the place of the host of the finals