The 2021 Men's Volleyball Asian Championship was played in the Chiba Prefectural Funabashi Gymnasium to the 3rd round of Focus Battle of Group C, and the Chinese men's volleyball team wasted two match points in five sets to be overturned by Australia 2-3, which was the first defeat after losing three straight sets to 3-0 clean sheets kuwait and Uzbekistan, due to 2 wins and 1 losses to give up the top of the list but still ranked second in the rankings. Beijing's former foreign aid received Edgar led Australia to win 3 consecutive wins to lock in the first place of Group C, and joined hands with the Chinese men's volleyball team to advance to the quarterfinals and wait for the top 2 of Group A.
In the first set, Peng Shikun intercepted the strong attack but was pulled apart by Staplesping, the Chinese men's volleyball team passed Yu Yaochen's second ball to 2-2 but Li Yongzhen blocked the net but was borrowed out of bounds, Jiang Chuan defended the back two and Zhang Jingyin countered the round of strong attack, Li Yongzhen blocked the counter-super 5-4. After losing 2 points in a row was reversed, Jiangchuan counter-wheel blocked Edgar to 8-7, the Chinese men's volleyball team in the technical suspension after Jiang Chuan vigorously jumped out of bounds, Zhang Jingyin was blocked after three from the buckle and then by Edgar after the second, Jiang Chuan strong attack was blocked, resulting in a 4 consecutive loss of 4 points was reversed to 8-11 forced Wu Sheng to suspend.
Yu Yuantaiping pulled away and was blocked until Peng Shikun short flat quickly stopped The Lenka 5 points, the Chinese men's volleyball team could not stop Edgar after two to 12-16 behind into the suspension, the main attack Zhang Binglong substituted Yu Yuantai but was short flat by Mott. Australia was forced to go nearly 17-16 due to Mo Qiping pulling out of bounds and Mott's back pass, and after the suspension, it was equalized by Jiang Chuan and Zhang Jingyin's repeated dunks to 19-19. Li Yongzhen short flat fast and Jiang Chuan jump serve reversed to 24-23, the Chinese men's volleyball team lost 2 points in a row after Jiang Chuan Shen defense and Peng Shikun short flat quick victory 27-25.
In the second set, Yu Yaochen adjusted the pass to touch the net, but Li Yongzhen short flat fast to 1-2, the Chinese men's volleyball team was blocked because Yu Yuantaiping pulled away and Li Yongzhen jumped off the net, 2-4 after Duo Sanjie jumped down the net to return the gift, but Peng Shikun blocked the net was borrowed out of bounds. Zhang Jingyin's pass to the net caused Yu Yaochen's pass to touch the net, and the Chinese men's volleyball team could not block Edgar's repeated two to 4-8. Yu Yuantaiping pulled away but unfortunately Peng Shikun jumped out of bounds, the Chinese men's volleyball team adjusted the strong attack to 7-10 through Jiangchuan's second two, and Murch's first attack broke through after Jiangchuan's counter-round strong attack borrowed his hand out of bounds.
Yang Tianyuan defended Staples and was then lightly suspended by Murch to 8-13, and the Chinese men's volleyball team relied on Jiang Chuan to jump and defend the rebound to chase 3 points, forcing Australia to attack Yu Yuantai after the 13-11 truce. Yang Tianyuan could not dodge and was hit by Edgar's counter-wheel heavy headhot, and the Chinese men's volleyball team reversed to 16-14 with Zhang Jingyin rushing in and Yu Yuantai jumping. Edgar fired and trailed by 3 points to make Wu Sheng happy to high-five Zhang Jingyin, Jiang Zhengyang served at 14-18 by Yu Yuantai to attack and defend to 24-18, after wasting 2 innings points Peng Shikun short flat quickly won 25-20.
In the third set, Yu Yuantai defended Moqi's light pat pad fly and Li Yongzhen short flat quickly fired, the Chinese men's volleyball team was attacked by Zhang Jingyin at 0-2 but was borrowed by Moqi out of bounds, Yu Yuantai defended the counter-attack and scored 2 points to surpass 4-3 Unfortunately, Li Yongzhen jumped off the net. Jiang Chuan lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground and Yu Yuantai played a 6-5 attack, the Chinese men's volleyball team was loaned out of bounds due to Peng Shikun blocking the net and lost 2 points in a row, Zhang Jingyin strongly attacked the ball but Jiang Chuan was blocked after the two were blocked and reversed 7-8, the Australian passing combo but Edgar questioned the referee yellow.
After 9-11, Yu Yaochen's defense was overturned by Edgar' buckle, and the Chinese men's volleyball team used Edgar's jump to make a mistake in the net, and Yu Yuantai self-deducted and then defended against nearly 12-13. Yu Yuantaiping pulled away but unfortunately Jiang Chuan fired two shots to 13-16, the Chinese men's volleyball team was attacked by Murch to 15-19 to force Wu Sheng to truce, Yu Yuantai made a mistake in the back three lines and Jiang Chuan fired another 2 points. Li Yongzhen short flat fast and Zhang Jingyin jumped to chase the score to 17-21, the Chinese men's volleyball team with Zhang Jingyin and Yu Yuantai to defend the rebound, but unfortunately Yu Yuantai was stopped and lost at 21-24.
In the fourth set, Yu Yuantaiping pulled away and Zhang Jingyin broke through the defense after three, the Chinese men's volleyball team used Duo Sanjie's passing combo to force Australia to truce 6-2, and Jiang Chuan's second was blocked in Peng Shikun's close body. After Yu Yuantai made a mistake in jumping, Zhang Jingyin did not pass in place but adjusted the strong attack to 8-4, and the Chinese men's volleyball team fired a strong attack through Staples but was attacked by Weir. Jiang Chuan counter-attacked and fired a cannon, but Gao Pulled open to make up for the merit to 11-7, and after being broken by Edgar, Weir pad passed out of bounds, and Li Yongzhen and Edgar served mistakes to 13-9.
Peng Shikun was quickly succeeded by Miao Ruantong at 15-12, and the Chinese men's volleyball team could not stop Edgar from borrowing the second hand out of bounds after Jiangchuan, and peng Shikun blocked Staples after 16-13. After Murch borrowed his hand out of bounds, Jiang Chuanbeiping was sentenced to shoot to 20-18, and Wu Sheng pulled away after the truce Yu Yuantaiping was pulled away but was second by Edgar. Peng Shikun short flat fast pity JiangChuan jumped out of bounds, the Chinese men's volleyball team was chased 22-22 by Wu Sheng truce, using Staples touched the net to 24-22, lost 3 points in a row was reversed by Jiang Chuan after the second to tie 25-25.
At the critical moment, Zhang Jingyin was defeated to 26-28 in the face of a transmission probe. In the decider Peng Shikun blocked the net and was borrowed out of bounds and Yu Yuantai made the ball 0-2, the Chinese men's volleyball team used Dosanje to jump down the net and Zhang Jingyin to block Edgar, Murch handled the ball out of bounds and Li Yongzhen intercepted Edgar's light hanging to score 4 consecutive points to win. Jiang Chuanbeiping was blocked and Zhang Jingyin was chased by a pad fly to exchange venues 5-8, and the Chinese men's volleyball team was unfortunately defeated by Edgar defense to 12-15 due to Zhang Jingyin's probe firing.