Where’s the ‘Defending Champion’ Momentum… Korean Air loses 3 in a row, Doosan loses 5 in a row

Korean Air and Korea Express, the men’s and women’s teams that won the Professional Volleyball League V championships last season, are struggling. Both teams have fallen into a losing streak after suffering back-to-back defeats in their last three matches.

Korean Air lost to underdog KB Insurance in the third round of the 2023-2024 V League on Tuesday at the Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium, marking the third straight loss for the team. On the same day, 온라인카지노 Korea Expressway Corporation also suffered its fifth straight defeat with a shutout loss to IBK.

For Korean Air, the injury to their leading scorer, right winger Lincoln, proved fatal. Lincoln has been sidelined since this month after suffering a back injury in training ahead of a match against Woori Card on Nov. 7 that sent Korean Air into a losing streak.

Korean Air coach Tommi Tilikainen said on Tuesday that Lincoln’s condition is “still not very good”. Homegrown outside hitter Lim Dong-hyuk will have to fill the void. There is hope, of course. Im is at the peak of his powers, having scored a whopping 42 points in his last game against KB Insurance with a fierce diagonal offense, the most points in a single game in his career. However, the team was unable to break the losing streak due to a lack of scoring options outside of Lim and a lapse in concentration at the end of the game.

In the women’s division, Korea Expressway Corporation is losing its status as a powerhouse. They have lost five straight games since last month’s game against GS Caltex. In particular, in the previous match against IBK, they were helplessly defeated by the hand-in-hand Ponpun-Abecrombie combination and gave up the set.

The team has had a lot of changes in their starting lineup this season. After the departure of Park “Clutch Park” Jung-ah, who led the team to the championship last season, the team has been left without an offensive player who can score from the diagonal. Outside hitters Jeon Sae-yan, Ko Eui-jeong, and Apojit Tanacha have been rotating, but the team has yet to find an optimal combination. Rookie No. 1 draft pick Kim Se-bin is also playing as a middle blocker, but she still needs to grow, so it’s hard to expect any immediate results.

The team was also hampered by the loss of setter Lee Yoon-jung to a knee injury just before the start of the season. Lee returned at the end of the first round and has been improving her form, but she is still not at full strength. In the match against Hyundai E&C on July 7, she was criticized by Korea Expressway Corporation head coach Kim Jong-min for underutilizing the center hitter. Unable to rely solely on Lee Yoon-jung in the setter role, Kim is using rookie setter Park Eun-ji, born in 2004, as a backup.

Korean Air and Korea Express will look to turn things around in their upcoming away matches against KEPCO and Chungkwanjang, respectively, on Sept. 13.

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