‘Leo Scores 38 Points’ OK Financial Group Men’s Volleyball Regains Third Place in Three Days
Cha Ji-hwan scored a season-high 14 points.
Professional volleyball OK Financial Group regained third place, breaking away from two consecutive losses.
OK Financial Group won against KB Insurance with a set score of 3-1 (25-21 20-25 27-25 25-23) in the Dodram 2023-2024 V-League men’s visiting match held at Uijeongbu Gymnasium on the 18th.
OK Financial Group, which recorded 47 points (16 wins, 13 losses), pushed Korea Electric Power Corporation (15 wins, 14 losses, 44 points) to 4th place and returned to 3rd place three days after the 15th.
KB Insurance, which is playing the remainder of the season under Kim Hak-min as acting manager after coach Hu In-jeong voluntarily handed in the baton on the 14th, has not been able to escape from a swamp of 7 consecutive losses.
KB Insurance finished in last place this season with 4 wins, 25 losses, and 19 points. 카지노사이트킹
Even if KB Insurance wins the remaining 7 games and is tied with 6th place Hyundai Capital (40 points, 13 wins, 16 losses), it cannot go up further as it is behind in the number of wins.
OK Financial Group’s main gun, Leonardo Leiva Martinez (registered name Leo), took charge of the attack with 38 points, while Cha Ji-hwan also supported the team with 14 points, the most in a game this season.
For KB Insurance, Andres Viyena (registered name Viyena) scored 31 points and Hwang Gyeong-min and Hong Sang-hyuk scored 16 and 11 points, respectively, but could not prevent the loss.
OK Financial Group gained a lot of points thanks to the goddess of luck in the third set with the set score of 1-1.
At 23-23, KB Insurance’s Hwang Kyeong-min violated the spike serve line, and at 25-24, after reaching deuce, he won the set due to an opponent’s error.
When Shin Ho-jin put his hand on Viyena’s back attack, the ball went over the net without any help, and KB Insurance libero Jeong Min-soo stepped back to the court to catch it, but collided with a teammate and fell to the ground.
At the end of the 4th set, several unexpected situations occurred, making it impossible to take your eyes off the game until the end.
At 20-20, OK Financial Group took a two-point lead thanks to Leo’s hard hit and serve ace, and Leo and Viena each exchanged serve errors to make it 23-21.
Here, Park Won-bin blocked Viena’s back attack, and the ball deflected to the side and fell near the KB Insurance camp line.
The referee recognized OK Financial Group’s blocking score, and KB Insurance, which had already used up all of its opportunities for a video review in the fourth set, protested strongly and requested a video review at the referee’s discretion, and Hwang Kyung-min received a warning.
OK Financial Group, which made the match point at 24-21, gave up one point and then Leo’s rear attack hit the opposing blocker and went outside the line, seemingly putting an end to the game.
However, it was revealed that Leo’s foot committed a line over that invaded the opponent’s court before the ball hit the blocker and landed on the ground, and the score was narrowed to 1 point.
In the end, Leo ended the match with a back attack at 24-23, giving OK Financial Group 3 points.