ADJUSTMENTS KEY TO KOREAN WIN - KIM YEON KOUNG | 2018/05/16

Ningbo, China, May 16, 2018 – Korea captain Kim Yeon Koung thought that the team’s change in tactics and learning from Tuesday’s defeat to Belgium helped them win their five-set match against the Dominican Republic at the Volleyball Nations League on Wednesday.

 

Korea coach Kim Haewon: Our blocking today was better than yesterday. Last night, we also discussed our performance on service, so today we will cover the other things. I think we did not really do well in the third set, but the Dominican Republic made more mistakes. Fortunately my players in great shape today. That was the winning factor.

 

Korean captain Kim Yeon Koung: We were not happy with the loss to Belgium yesterday, but today we made big adjustments. We analysed the attack-defence system so we made improvements.

 

It’s really difficult to win in five sets. After yesterday, we were a little bit upset. We lost to Belgium because we expected that we could win. Today we tried our best with our blocks and defence against the Dominican Republic.

 

We haven’t prepared against China yet. They are the best team in the world and the match will be played in their home court. It will be another difficult match, but for sure we will do our best to focus on our own game.

 

Dominican Republic coach Marcos Kwiek: I’m not happy with the way we played the game today. I was wishing our performance in this match would be better than yesterday. Our players made a lot of mistakes that we can’t afford to make especially in crucial moments.

 

Dominican Republic captain Niverka Dharlenis Marte Frica: Congratulations to the Korean team. It was a very difficult match. Of course we are not happy, being on the losing side, but what we can do is to forget about this match and move on to the next.

 

 

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