Manama, Bahrain, May 20, 2023 – Suntory Sunbirds of Japan smashed Shahdab Yazd’ candy goals of advancing to their unprecedented ultimate after edging previous the Iranians in hard-fought four-set thriller to safe a ultimate berth within the Sunday’s showdown of the 2023 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship at Isa Bin Rashid Hall 1.
The dramatic 3-1 (25-22, 23-25, 34-32, 25-17) win was the same feat Suntory Sunbirds had repeated of their back-to-back wins in opposition to Shahdab Yazd. At the earlier version final 12 months in Tehran, Suntory Sunbirds outplayed the Iranian outfits 3-1 within the semifinals. The Japanese facet did it once more 3-1 within the semifinals right here in Bahrain.
The win additionally earned Suntory Sunbirds a spot within the ultimate of the eight-day championship. The unbeaten Japanese will battle it out for the eventual title with the winners of the opposite semifinal match between Qatar’s Police Sports Team and Indonesia’s Jakarta Bhayangkara Presisi.
Since the event inception in 1999 in China, no membership staff from Japan have captured gold medal within the Asian Men’s Club Championship, however they got here inside a whisker of claiming gold for 4 instances, solely dropping all of them in ultimate showdowns. This would be the third time for Suntory Sunbirds to make it to the ultimate. They had already entered the ultimate in 2001 and 2022, however misplaced in each events.
It was the second loss on this topflight championship for Shahdab Yazd, bronze medalists on the earlier version in Iran. Earlier within the quarterfinal match Pool F the day gone by, Shahdab Yazd suffered their first setback following their nail-biting 2-3 loss to Qatar’s Police and on Saturday, they went down 1-3 to Suntory Sunbirds.
In the Saturday’s match, Mohammad Valizadeh chipped in with 20 factors for Shahdab Yazd together with 16 assaults from 19 makes an attempt. Russian Dmitriy Muserskiy led Suntory Sunbirds with 29 factors together with 26 assaults from 46 makes an attempt.
Suntory Sunbirds, spearheaded by highly effective and towering Muserskiy, made a stable begin and caught fireplace shortly after that. With Kenji Sato and Alain De Armas Berrios attacking spectacularly on the wing, the Japanese staff clinched the primary set 25-22.
Conceding one set, Shahdab Yazd got here again a lot stronger originally of the second set. Amir Ghafour and Masoud Gholami had been devastatingas they joined forces in penetrating the Japanese defence with their highly effective assaults to assist the Iranians clinch the hard-fought set 25-23.
With the Iranians riddled with a number of unforced attacking errors within the third and fourth units, Suntory Sunbirds grabbed the prospect to counter-attack and block successfully to win the following two units 34-32, 25-17, match and a ultimate berth.
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