▲ Professional volleyball KB Insurance’s foreign striker Keita Nomori ⓒ Korea Volleyball Federation
The men’s professional volleyball team, Korean Air and KB Insurance, will face off against each other for the last time this season.
On the afternoon of the 9th, Korean Air and KB Insurance will play the third match of the Dodram 2021-2022 V-League Men’s Championship at Gyeyang Gymnasium in Incheon. If you win in the 3rd while having 1 win and 1 loss in the previous 1st and 2nd matches, you can win the long-awaited championship match.
If Korean Air wins, it will achieve the club’s first combined championship (regular league and postseason) for the first two years in a row. KB Insurance, which is the first to compete in the championship game, is aiming to win the first championship since its founding.
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Korean Air, the winning team in the regular league, showed a stronger player base and stable organization than KB Insurance. However, I realized that everything would be of no use if I couldn’t stop Keita Noumori, the Mali Express who leads KB Insurance.
KB Insurance was put into crisis due to the loss in the first game, but in the second game, Keita, the top scorer in the regular league (1285 points), took the lead in an explosive attack and won a thrilling comeback victory with a set score of 3-1, leading the game to the third game.
Keita, who was sluggish with only 27 points (attack success rate 48.21%) in the first leg, came back to life with 35 points (attack success rate 58.93%) in the second game.
His unique high RBI attack is so powerful that the opponent cannot stop it without even knowing it. In the second game, KB Insurance threw the ball to Keita in every match, and Korean Air couldn’t stop it even though three players blocked it.
In the end, it is no exaggeration to say that the fate of KB Insurance rests on Keita’s shoulders. The key is what kind of countermeasures Korean Air will come up with, which was severely attacked by Keita in the second leg.
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▲ Professional volleyball Korean Air foreign striker Lincoln Williams ⓒ Korea Volleyball Federation
The hot topic of Korean Air, which is challenging for the combined championship for the second year in a row, is serving. In Korean Air, almost all of the strikers delivered strong and sharp serve and broke the opponent’s receiving line.
But there were also many failures. In the regular league, he had the disgrace of being overwhelmingly first with 638 sub offenses. In the first leg of the championship game, he succeeded with 6 sub-aces, but he had to pay a whopping 19 sub-crimes.
The second round was also serious. He provided an excuse for a comeback defeat with 6 serve aces and 22 sub accusations. If you score hard and concede easily, you will never take the lead. On the other hand, KB Insurance showed a more efficient serve attack than Korean Air with 7 sub-aces and 17 sub-criminals.
In particular, KB Insurance’s Keita led the lead by blocking Korean Air’s attack in advance with a strong serve even in a crisis that was pushed to the brink by 20-24 in the third set, which was the biggest match.
On the other hand, Korean Air made a absurd mistake in the 4th set that even misunderstood the sub-rotation, showing that they were not like the regular league champions. It is interesting to see how Korean Air’s serve will change in the third game.
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