The focus of Volleyball Nations League 2022 today is the encounter between the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Dutch women's volleyball team. Before this match, Asian “great sister” was more appreciated than the opponent.
Japan has a series of 8 wins in this year's tournament with very impressive performance, while the Netherlands with the new squad constantly disappointed when losing to many weaker opponents.
However, the ending was very surprised when the Netherlands overtook Japan with a dramatic 3-2 score in a match that Koga alone could not pull his team.
This failure maybe the teachers and coach Manabe must blame themselves for not preserving the advantage. In the first Czech, despite leading to nearly a dozen points, Japan let the Netherlands overtake before waking up in time to win hard.
The script was once again repeated in the 4th Czech when Japan led August 15 and took the opportunity to decide to end this match quickly. However, once the female Asian girls let the opponent come back successfully.
No longer fortunate, Japan lost the fourth Czech and continued to lose in the fifth Czech. This defeat was the first defeat of Japan at VNL 2022 and ended the series of defeats of this team.
Failure also made the No. 1 position on the Japanese rankings threatened when the match later, the United States gently overcame Belgium with an easy victory. The race for the No. 1 position is more difficult than ever.
In the late match last night, the Thai women's volleyball team also gently surpassed Korea with a score of 3-0 to continue raising hope to reach its quarterfinals.