Atai: Nothing is over for Iran/ Japan had an average game – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr reporter, Iran’s national volleyball team head coach Behrouz Atai said after his team’s 3-0 loss against Japan in the first week of the Volleyball Nations League: We expected to have a tough match. Given that Japan was playing at home, it gave an acceptable performance. Nothing is over for Iran’s national volleyball team.
He added: “Usually, we start the League of Nations badly.” On a day where we weren’t particularly good offensively, we conceded the result. Japan was not great today and showed an average game with few errors. We try to forget this game. We will have at least 11 more matches ahead of us, for which we have plans tiny we do. Definitely, the performance you will see from Iranian children in the next games will be different from this one. We don’t care much about this loss and we try to continue the way ahead in the best way.
The head coach of the national volleyball team clarified about Iran’s mistakes in the second set of the match against Japan: In the second set, a series of simple and somewhat childish mistakes happened. We were three or four points ahead and could manage the situation. an error elbow Bad and two attack errors happened worse. Japan had absolutely few mistakes and made optimal use of the mistakes of the Iranian team. They were great on the ball but not great on the serve and attack. In front of a team like Japan, you have to play with all your strength, make few mistakes and be patient.
In the end, Atai said: Japan plays the ball very well and this should not cause the players to lose focus. Especially in the first set, my players lost their concentration and could not manage the rest of the game. You will definitely see more changes in the Iranian team in the course of the matches, and of course the League of Nations continues for us.
According to Mehr reporter, Iran’s national volleyball team will line up against Poland at 12:30 on Thursday, June 18, in their second match in the first week of the League of Nations.