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10:17 – 24/07/2018
Manama, July 24 (BNA): Heavyweights Iran won a comfortable three-set victory over Korea last night to climb to the top of the 19th round of the 19th Asian Volleyball Men's Championship U20, held at Isa Sports City in Riffa.
This year's U20 Asian Championship follows for the first time a new, complicated competition format. The tournament was organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation in cooperation with the Bahrain Volleyball Association. He stands under the patronage of His Majesty the King Charity of Works and Youth Affairs, President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports and Chairman of the Olympic Committee of Bahrain, Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa
The Iranians outclassed their Korean rivals 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-19) to sweep Group A and secure first place overall at the end of the preliminary round.
Japan followed suit in Group B while outperforming Turkmenistan 3-0 (25-12, 25-12, 25-11) to secure fourth place.
Others joined Iran and Japan yesterday to finish their respective preliminary round campaigns as undefeated teams: Hong Kong and Macau. Hong Kong beat the UAE while Macao needed five sets to beat Malaysia.
In other matches, Iraq clinched its first win after beating Qatar, Saudi Arabia doing the same against Pakistan After the playoffs, the top eight ranked teams in the US. order were Iran, Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Sri Lanka and Australia. None of these teams will be preparing today as KOs will begin; they will be back in action on Wednesday.
Bahrain had a day of rest today but had already secured the number 10 ranking on Sunday night. They are now scheduled to face Malaysia in their first knockout game today.
The rankings at the end of the preliminaries determine the matches for the KOs.
In Pool A, Iran turned what was supposed to be closely contested affair in a walk in the park. They dominated their Korean counterparts and gave them no chance to get into the game.
"Korea is a very good team, and one of the highest quality teams in Asia, but today we are trying to put pressure on their service line, and if they will not play very fast, the quality of the match will be reduced, "said Iranian head coach Behrouz Ataei. "It's something we've seen today."
Of their upcoming matches in the knockouts, Ataei commented, "We do not want to predict anything Every day we do not I think we were thinking about Korea, I think we did very well in that sense.
"Overall, every game gets stronger and progresses towards our goals. Each team here has its own goals, we have ours, and I hope we will get there.
Morteza Sharifi was Iran's top scorer, finishing with 13 points, including 12 in attack, Porya Yali added 12 points and Captain Amirhossein Esfandiar had seven, both in attack, and Im Donghyeok, 10 points in the defeat.
In the Japan match, they won their second victory in as many trials, while handing Turkmenistan their second defeat. "I think we were just tired today because that we played Thailand in the tight five sets on Sunday. "
Ryuki Ban led the Japanese with 10 points In total, seven of them were in attack, skipper Kento Miyaura and Itaru Tashiro each finished with six points
Macau and Malaysia were engaged in a close battle tonight, Macao managing to take the victory in five sets (30- 28, 20-25, 25-23, 23-25, 15-13) There was little to separate from both sides in their match, q It lasted nearly two and a half hours.
Leong Ka Him led the winners with 29 points in total, including 25 in attack. Lester Siah was Malaysia's leading scorer with 33 total markers
The first pair of knockouts starts on Tuesday morning at 11:30 am and continues until late at night.
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BNA 0708 GMT 2018/07/24
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Last updated: 10: 17 AM – 24/07/2018
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