In the two months since the opening, the Pepper Savings Bank volleyball team has not won a single victory.
Pepper Savings Bank lost with a set score of 0-3 (17-25, 26-28, 20-25) in the 2022-23 V-League Women’s Home Hyundai E&C match held at Pepper Stadium in Gwangju on the 18th. As a result, the V-League women’s division fell into a record 15 consecutive losses.
On this day, Hyundai Engineering & Construction was in a state where Yang Hyo-jin was missing. However, it was a very tough opponent for Pepper Savings Bank. Unlike Pepper Savings Bank, which is setting a new record for the most consecutive losses since the opening, Hyundai E&C is enjoying the most consecutive wins since the opening. Pepper Savings Bank gave up 7 consecutive points at the start of the first set, losing the match 17-25. In the second set, with 12-14 behind, they scored 6 points in a row, leading to a comfortable 18-14 following a reversal. However, at 20-17, he eventually allowed a turnaround, and after a close match of deuce, he knelt down 26-28. The third set was lost after being dragged around without taking a single lead.
The youngest club, Pepper Savings Bank, was founded last year and immediately jumped into the V-League. Weakening of team power is inevitable. Still, last season, it recorded its first win in the opening 6th game against IBK Industrial Bank, which suffered internal troubles. Then, in the 4th and 5th rounds, they defeated IBK Industrial Bank and Heungkuk Life Insurance once each, ending the season with 3 wins and 28 losses (11 points).
Pepper Savings Bank recruited setter Lee Go-eun as a free agent ahead of this season. In the draft of both new and foreign players, they exercised the right to pick the first pick, selecting middle blocker (center) Yeom Er-Hung and apositive spiker (right) Nia Reid, respectively. 토토
Former Pepper Savings Bank manager Kim Hyung-sil raised expectations prior to the opening, saying, “This season’s goal is 10 wins.” However, the team’s key players, such as outside hitter Ji Min-kyung and middle blocker Ha Hye-jin, left before the season due to a rope injury. Reed, a former U.S. national team player, cannot even make it to the top 10 in the overall offense. Due to the lack of skills of the backup players, they are exposed to a sharp decline in physical strength at the end of each game. A tough match was predicted in the second season of the V-League, but I didn’t know it would collapse so horribly.
In the end, coach Kim Hyeong-sil resigned voluntarily after losing 10 consecutive games, saying, “We need a reversal of the atmosphere.” Coach Kim, who led the 2012 London Olympics semifinal myth, said, “I thought that if I continued like this, 20 consecutive losses would come out and players would have an inferiority complex. He decided to change the team,” and left. Even in the system of acting manager Lee Kyung-soo, Pepper Savings Bank lost all five games.
Pepper Savings Bank’s only point this season came in a 2-3 loss against Ginseng Corporation on November 6th. It has already broken the disgraceful record of the most consecutive losses in the opening (previous 11 consecutive losses at Hyundai E&C). It is approaching the most consecutive losses in a season in the V-League (20 consecutive losses at KGC Ginseng Corporation in the 2012-13 season). Even before turning the halfway point, the difference between leading Hyundai Engineering & Construction (38 points) and Pepper Savings Bank widened by 37 points.
The future schedule is also not easy. It will face GS Caltex on the 23rd, IBK Industrial Bank of Korea on the 28th, and Korea Expressway Corporation on the 31st.