Thai volleyball creates seismic, Japan "Lonely Bridge" at AVC Cup 2022
The AVC Cup 2022 men's volleyball tournament is the tournament with the presence of the top 11 teams, including the host of Thailand, India, Australia, Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taipei China, Brahrain, Iran and Pakistan. The tournament was held at Nakhon Pathom Provincial Stadium 4,000 seats in central Thailand.
After the end of 3 days of competition, 8 teams continue to the final round, including 4 teams leading the groups A, B C and D are Thailand, Iran, Japan and China Quoc.
In Group A, after winning 3-0 against Hong Kong, the Thai home team made a big surprise when defeating Korea through 5 sets of competition. Despite being won by South Korea in the first two sets, but with the advantage of the host and the determination spirit, Thailand has successfully come back and won 3-2, thereby topping the head. Group A. In the match against Korea, Napadet Bhinijdee is the player who scored the most with a total of 27 points, this is also the foreigner of Nam Ha Tinh volleyball, which has just attended the Duc Giang Chemical Cup league.
Group B, because only Iran and Pakistan, these two teams entered the next round. In the match on August 8, Iran defeated Pakistan in 4 sets.
Earlier, Hong Kong China, Taipei China and India suffered two consecutive defeats in their group stage matches to have to go down to play in the ranking match for 9-11 positions. Therefore, the encounter on August 9 became decisive matches to determine the first and second position of each group.
In Group C, Japan is still the only team in this peak tournament, not losing a set before their opponents. Having just defeated India in 3 sets, Japan continued to repeat another victory yesterday (August 9) when they eliminated Australia, the team accumulated experience and expressed by attending VNL and Challenger Cup. .
Meanwhile in Group D, China-the team ranked 19th in the world, ranked 13th at VNL this year, struggled to defeat Bahrain in 4Set dramatic with a score of 27-29, 25-19, 25- 19, 25-22.
After three days of competition in the circle, the host of Thailand topped Group A with 5 points after two consecutive victories, followed by Korea with 4 points and Hong Kong had no points. Iran takes the top of Group B with 3 points, while Pakistan has no points to rank second.
The Undefeated Japan topped Group C with 6 points, while Australia and India have 3 points and no points respectively. The powerful China has wiped out in Group D with 6 points, Bahrain and Hong Kong are ranked 2nd and 3 with 3 points and no points.
The next round will be held in August 11, August 11, 8 teams will be divided to compete in a circle calculating the score in Table E and F. Table E includes hosts Thailand, Korea, Japan Ban and Australia. Group F includes Iran, Bahrain, China and Pakistan. The teams who met in the preliminary round will not play again, but must take into account the results achieved within the preliminary round. Only the top two teams from Group E and F will enter the semi -finals.
Meanwhile, the relegation teams in the 9-11 qualifying round will play at the sports complex of Rajamangla Rattanakosin University of Technology, 8 teams entering the next round will play the next round at Nakhon Provincial Stadium Pathom.
