Japanese men's volleyball cannot be surprised by the reigning Olympic champion

Before the quarterfinals of VNL 2022, the Japanese team encountered disadvantages when captain Yuki Ishikawa was injured and could not play. The absence of Yuki Ishikawa will be a difficulty for the Japanese team in the quarterfinal match tonight, especially when they do not have the best form in the last days of the group stage.

Both France and Japan are somewhat embarrassing in the first set and make a lot of mistakes. The weapon of the Japanese team is an unpleasant ball that has not been promoted, causing them to be led in most of the competition time. However, the problems in step 1 of France have facilitated the opponent to catch up with the score. Fortunately for France, coach Andrea Giani made reasonable adjustments for the reigning Olympic championship in the last minutes and won with a score of 26-24.

After taking the lead, France caught up with the match and played very stable, while Japan was confused. Nishida and his teammates could only hold the first few minutes before being lagged behind by a weak play. Set 2 quickly closed with a 25-15 destruction victory for France.

Entering the set to win, Japan has put a lot of balls in the position of Nishida, but the French barrier has followed very well and disabled many attacks of the world's No. 1 pass. When the brightest star could not shine, the efforts of the team of the land of the rising sun became meaningless. Japan failed with a score of 20-25 and officially stopped in the quarterfinals.

Today's quarterfinal match is also the most disappointing match of Yuji Nishida at VNL 2022. He can only score 8 points (efficiency of 15.79%, 2 times the ball to eat on the next point). In the opposite direction, the first owner of the French team, Earvin Ngapeth, did not score any points, but his teammates had an extremely effective competition day, the most prominent of which was Jean Patry. The number 4 shirt is the player who scored the most points of the quarterfinals 3 (16 points, 61.9%efficiency).

The 3-0 victory (26-24, 25-15, 25-20) helps France to win the right to the quarterfinals. Here, the reigning Olympic champion will face the home team, the team is ranked 5 in the world. The winning team in this match not only won the final right to the final, but also took Brazil's second place on the world rankings.