Korean Air Wins the First Ever Foreign Manager Head-to-Head Match

Korean Air wins the first ever foreign manager head-to-head match... Cup competition quarterfinals first come first served (overall)

Woori Card beats KB Insurance and wins first cup competition... Han Seong-jeong, 'sword' to former team

Korean Air laughed in the first foreign manager confrontation in professional volleyball history.

Korean Air scored a set score of 3-2 (25-21 21-25 24-26) to OK Financial Group in the second match of Group A of the men's group stage of the 2023 Gumi-Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament (Cup) held at Park Chung-hee Gymnasium in Gumi, Gyeongbuk on the 8th. 25-21 15-9) came from behind to win 스포츠토토

Korean Air coach Tommy Tillikainen and OK Financial Group coach Ogino Massage are the 2nd and 3rd foreign commanders in the men’s division of the V-League, respectively.

This is the first time that two foreign coaches exist at the same time, and the first confrontation took place in this cup competition.

Korean Air, whose key players such as Jung Ji-seok, Lim Dong-hyuk, and Kim Min-jae were selected for the national team, overcame the power vacuum and overpowered OK Financial Group following Woori Card, confirming their advance to the semifinals regardless of the results of the third game.

The 1st and 2nd placed teams from Groups A and B each of 4 teams advance to the semi-finals of the cup competition.

In the 5th set, which was exchanged with 2 sets each, OK Financial Group destroyed itself with 6 rooms.

In OK Financial Group's 2-3, Cha Ji-hwan's quick open was blocked by Jin Ji-wi's blocking, and Shin Ho-jin's back attack went off the court.

Korean Air didn't miss the opportunity and ran away to 8-2 with Jin Ji-wi's open, Cho Jae-young's blocking, and Kwak Seung-seok's quick open to solidify their victory.

On this day, Korean Air's Lee Joon, born in 1999, was responsible for scoring 22 points, the highest in the team, and revealed his prospects as a next-generation striker.

Veteran Kwak Seung-seok (15 points) and Cho Jae-young (13 points) provided support fire, while Lee Soo-hwang (13 points) and Jin Ji-wi (10 points) also scored in double digits.

OK Financial Group’s defeat was more bitter as Apposite Spiker Jeon Byeong-seon injured his left ankle in the process of landing after attempting a block in the third set 20-19.

In the previous game, Woori Card beat KB Insurance with a set score of 3-0 (25-19 25-19 25-19).

Woori Card, who suffered a shutout loss to Korean Air in the first game, saved the spark to advance to the semifinals by taking a valuable victory.

On the other hand, KB Insurance suffered two consecutive losses following the match against OK Financial Group and was eliminated from the group stage.

On this day, Kim Ji-han led the Woori Card attack with 18 points, and Song Myeong-geun (9 points) and Han Seong-jeong (8 points) helped.

Han Seong-jeong, who returned to Woori Card after a year and a half after a year and a half by trading with setter Hwang Seung-bin in May, boasted a high attack success rate (70%) and put a dagger into her former team, KB Insurance.

KB Insurance destroyed itself by pouring out twice as many rooms (29) than Woori Card (14).

Son Jun-young (22 points) struggled, but the light faded.

KB Insurance, which recorded 11 crime rooms in the first set, gave away the second set in a similar flow.

Woori Card took the lead first, and KB Insurance was unable to reverse the trend due to frequent mistakes (10) and low attack efficiency (26.32%).

KB Insurance seemed to have reorganized the front line only in the 3rd set, but it lacked a backbone.

Woori Card ran away with a 3-point lead from 15-15 thanks to Song Myeong-keun's quick open, serve ace, and opponent Son Jun-young's net touch.

Woori Card, who took the lead, took victory without allowing more than 20 points to KB Insurance in three consecutive sets.