IBK Pyo Seung-ju (right) is attacking with Heungkuk Life Insurance in the second leg of the pro volleyball V-League women’s playoffs held at the Hwaseong Indoor Gymnasium in Gyeonggi-do on the 22nd. yunhap news.
IBK left Pyo Seung-ju (30) played a completely different look from the first game of the playoffs, leading the team to win the second game.
IBK defeated Heungkuk Life Insurance with a set score of 3-1 (25-6 25-14 20-25 27-25) in the 2020-21 V-League Women’s PO 2nd round home game held at the Hwaseong Sports Complex in Gyeonggi-do on the 22nd. As a result, the two teams exchanged 1 win and 1 loss and played the final 3rd round of the PO at the Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium, the home stadium of Heungkuk Life Insurance, at 7 pm on the 24th.
Main striker Lazareva scored the most in the team with 31 points (46.7% attack success rate). However, Pyo Seung-ju, who showed a regrettable appearance in the first game of the ball and hand, stood out with 16 points (36.8%) on this day. In the receive, the efficiency was 24.1% and a receive error was recorded. It looked completely different from the first game’s sluggishness (Siege Rate 13.8%, Receive Efficiency 18.2%, Receive Errors 2).
In an interview after the game that day, Pyo Seung-ju confessed, “After the first game, the stress was difficult to express in words.” At the same time, he said, “I thought it was my share to overcome anyway,” and “I thought positively and went on to the second game.”
At Media Day before the postseason, director Park Mi-hee and Heungkuk Life Insurance said, “I will focus on serving Pyo Seung-ju,” but Pyo Seung-ju said, “It was really nothing.” He explained that it was the part that he had already expected, saying, “I served me from the beginning of the season to the end of the season.” He said, “It’s true that at the beginning of the regular season (as the subs were concentrated), it was a lot of contraction.”
Pyo Seung-ju injured his left ankle in the final game of the regular league. Regarding the extent of the injury, he said, “The other party shouldn’t know… I laughed and said, “I’m going to hold on to the end” and saved my words.
He also revealed his determination for the 3rd game, the final game of the playoffs. Seung-ju Pyo said, “Maybe it will be the last game of the season, or it could go further. But I want to play volleyball a little longer.” He said, “It’s spring volleyball that came in a difficult way. I will prepare well so that I will not play the same game in the first game.”
On the other hand, the 25-6, which came out of the first set of the match, was the minimum score for one set in the previous postseason, and broke after 13 years. The previous record was 25-9 from the 4th set of the 2nd leg of the 2007~08 season championship match against GS Caltex and Heungkuk Life Insurance.
Also, on this day, the first set ended in 17 minutes, and this is also the second place in the postseason in the shortest time set. The record for the first place in history came from the 3rd set (25-14) of the 4th leg of the 2005-06 season when Heungkuk Life Insurance and the Korea Highway Corporation confronted it, and it ended in 13 minutes.
Heungkuk Life Insurance coach Park Mi-hee said, “It would have been difficult to relieve the burden of an important game because there were many young players.” He said, “But in the 3rd and 4th sets, he showed a regained performance. It will help us prepare for the third game.”
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