The Japanese men's volleyball team has made history for themselves and the Asian volleyball when winning the Volleyball Nations League. Achievements that no team can do.
Ending the defending champion of Italy in the third battle, not many people can be optimistic in a good result for the No. 1 Men's Men's Volleyball team today.
However, the Japanese boys were in jubilantly when they took the lead soon and did not face any difficulties to be able to win against their opponents.
Losing a set, Italy played better when leading Japan in most of the time of Set 2. However, Yuki Ishikawa and his teammates were firmly chasing before the dramatic victory in the final scores.
Being cornered in the foot of the wall, Italy played awake in the next two sets and easily imposed the gameplay on Japan. It can be seen the superiority of the European team and the easy victory for this team.
Unable to determine the winning in the first 4 sets, Japan vs Italy had to bring each other to the 5 decisions. The defending world champions made a mistake while Japan played too uplifting.
Creating a gap early, Japan played firmly and effectively to get the final victory thereby winning the Volleyball Nations League 2023 and ended the unexpected success season.
As for Italy, the defending world champions after the power in the quarterfinals against Argentina were no longer themselves. The only 4th place can be considered as the failure of this team.
Japanese male volleyball results 3-2 Italia (25-18, 25-23, 17-25, 17-25, 15-9)