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Heungkuk Life’s goal is to win the championship match. There is a limit to the’one-man team’. This is why foreign players’ propaganda is desperate.
Heungkuk Life Insurance was awarded a set score of 3-1 (25-20, 23-25, 25-18, 25-) to IBK Industrial Bank in the first game of the 2020~21 Dodram V League Women’s Playoff (PO) held at Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium on the 20th. 21).
‘Ace’ Kim Yeon-kyung’s dominance in the economy was demonstrated. Kim Yeon-kyung recorded an attack success rate of 60% and scored 29 points. Joo-ah Lee and Chae-yeon Kim, the young centers, recorded 4 and 3 blocking, respectively, and won the decision in the confrontation with the national centers Kim Hee-jin and Kim Soo-ji. Now, if you add one win, you advance to the championship match.
Heungkuk Life Insurance lost 1-4 in the 6th round and gave GS Caltex the regular season championship. The team’s power and atmosphere sharply deteriorated after the lead setters Lee Da-young and left Lee Jae-young were suspended from business trips for an “indefinitely” situation due to a school violence (school violence). Therefore, IBK was also expected to be inferior. Heungkuk Life Insurance also lost 0-3 in the 6th round confrontation with IBK on February 24th.
In this game, IBK was shaken by Jo Song-hwa at the main battle center, but backup Kim Ha-kyung showed a change of atmosphere and led the victory of the Heungkuk Lifetime War. It has the strongest scorer in the league (Lazareva), and the backing layer is thicker. This is why IBK is expected to win the PO as well.
However, Heungkuk Life has long become a’one team’. Kim Yeon-kyung led the team with a success rate in the 60% range for the second time since November 27 last year. The concentration of scoring with the left hand was outstanding even on an unstable set. The potential of Kim Yeon-kyung and Heung-kuk’s life began to be displayed again.
There is also an anxiety factor. It is the ups and downs of the foreign player Bruna. Bruna supported 19 points in the first leg of the PO, but the attack success rate was only 28.57%. It also recorded 13 crimes, which is 50% of the team’s overalls. Bruna recorded an attack success rate of 19.61% in two regular seasons against IBK. In his first appearance on February 16, he only scored 1 goal after playing three sets.
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Heungkuk Life Insurance Director Park Mi-hee said, “Bruna is not particularly weak in the IBK war” after the IBK war on February 24. However, all three games up to the PO were sluggish. Originally, he was a player who could not show the attack power expected of a foreign player. Considering that PO has short-term variables that take place after a day’s break, Bruna needs to show more stable performance. Even if you win the second round of PO on the 22nd and advance to the championship match for GS Caltex, the homework will still remain.
IBK’s sub-receiving was shaken in the first round of PO. Left Pyo Seung-joo could not overcome the’objective hit’ (a strategy to intensively serve a specific player). IBK is the team with the lowest team receive efficiency (30.07%) this season. Heungkuk Life Insurance’s receive efficiency is only 29.58%.
However, in the final matchup of the regular season on February 24, the receive efficiency recorded 36.92%. Even in this game, Pyo Seung-ju had a hard time, but Kim Joo-hyang (33.33%) and Libero Shin Yeon-kyung (54.55%) showed not bad defense.
Even in the second game, if the receive shakes, the bench is likely to respond quickly. From the perspective of Heungkuk Life Insurance, the second game should be prepared on the premise that IBK can show better performance than the first game. You can’t ignore the regular season average. That’s why Bruna’s propaganda is needed. The same goes for sub-left Kim Mi-yeon. IBK also lost in the first game because it was a one-man team of Lazarev. Heungkuk Life’s PO game 2, the biggest topic of the remaining spring volleyball is clear. Kim Yeon-gyeong’s reinforcements are needed.
Reporter Ahn Hee-soo
