Victory is always valuable and desperate, but for them, victory is especially desperate now. The two teams, who are so desperate for victory, meet at the second half of the fourth round.
 
Heungkuk Life Insurance (47 points, 16 wins, 5 losses), the leading women's professional volleyball team, and IBK Industrial Bank (33 points, 11 wins, 10 losses) will face off in the fourth round of the 2024-2025 V-League at Samsan World Gymnasium in Incheon on the 21st.
 
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, which seeks to return to spring volleyball for the first time in four seasons after the 2020-2021 season, is in danger if it accumulates further losses. It lost all three games in the second half of the year, and is now in the midst of a four-game losing streak including the last game of the first half. The gap has widened to eight points with Chung Kwan-jang (41, 15 wins and 6 losses), the third-ranked team that has won 11 consecutive games in the second half. If the gap widens, it will be hard to see the semi-playoff (three points difference between the third and fourth-ranked teams), which is the final line of spring volleyball.

The match against Pepper Savings Bank (2-3 loss) on the 9th and the match against Jeong Kwan-jang (2-3 loss) on the 14th, which were the first games of the second half of the year, led to a close game in full set through internal strife, but the latest match against Hyundai Engineering & Construction on the 17th was a 0-3 shutdown defeat. It was the first shutdown match in the second half of the women's division, in which there was no absolute power or absolute weakness. It was such an inexcusable complete defeat.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea is the team that spent the biggest amount of money during the offseason for its first spring volleyball in four seasons. It was brought to outside heater Lee So-young, who is also an airman in the free agent market, with a guarantee of up to 2.1 billion won for three years, and Lee Ju-ah was also given a total of 1.2 billion won for three years to reinforce the middle blocker. Although it reinforced its disappointing position by burning 3.5 billion won, it is ranked fourth, only one notch higher than last season. 스포츠토토
 
Having suffered shoulder injury throughout the first half of the season and played only three rear positions, Lee made his first start of the season at the match against Jeonggwanjang, the second game in the second half of the second half, but his performance did not stand out. He displayed impressive defense capabilities, but he still had a lot of regrets in attack. He started again in the warm-up zone in the match against Hyundai Engineering and Construction on Wednesday, and started in the second set, but displayed negative impact with a single point and attack efficiency of -25 percent. He does not look like the highest paid person in his team.

IBK Industrial Bank of Korea's optimal line of both wings is for Lee So-young and Yuk Seo-young, who are fully skilled this season, to stand on the left diagonal, while Victoria (Ukraine) is firmly guarding the right side with an apogit. Most ideal is for Hwang Min-kyung to digest the three rear positions Lee So-young played in the first half. This structure can only win if Lee So-young scores more than 15 points and has a success rate of 40 percent or more.
 
Heungkuk Life Insurance, which seemed to have a hard time in the first two games of the second half, lost 2-3 to seventh-ranked GS Caltex and 2-3 to sixth-ranked Korea Expressway Corporation, caught Pepper Savings Bank 3-2 on the 16th and took a breather. After winning the first set, they lost two or three sets, and in the crisis of losing three consecutive sets, they were driven to 12-16 in the fourth set, and managed to win the victory through a fierce battle between Kim Yeon-kyung and Jung Yoon-joo.
 
Heungkuk Life Insurance is agonizing over the ups and downs of Matteiko (Poland), who was hired in lieu of Tutku (Turkiye), who left the team for an extended period due to ruptured tendons in his left knee. His RBI single, which is 197 centimeters tall, is powerful and powerful. The problem is that he cannot make full use of the RBI single. Since his poor performance (3 points) in the game against GS Caltex, which was his debut game, he scored 27 points in the game against Korea Expressway Corporation, but scored only five points in the last game against Pepper Savings Bank. When Matteiko, a big and slow player in Heungkuk Life who seeks low and fast play, is on the court, the entire team seems to be in disarray. The victory against Pepper Savings Bank was also possible by excluding Matteiko and using Jeong Yun-ju as an apogit, and Kim Da-eun as Kim Yeon-koung's outside heater partner to accelerate play.

Whether Heungkuk Life Insurance can easily solve the IBK Industrial Bank match is up to Matteiko. If Matteiko can score more than 15 points by easing the burden of attack on Kim Yeon-koung, she will be comfortable, but if she shows another success rate of 30 percent or less with her ridiculous offense, she will suffer.
 
Heungkuk Life Insurance is also facing a red light on top-ranked Mercury. The gap with second-ranked Hyundai Engineering & Construction (46 points, 15 wins and 6 losses) has narrowed to just one point. Chung is also concerned about the fact that the team has even caught up with the six-point gap. With one win and two losses against the fifth- and seventh-ranked teams, the team needs at least two wins and one loss against the second-ranked teams to secure the top spot. Furthermore, after the match against IBK, it will meet with Hyundai Engineering & Construction on Saturday and Chung on Sunday. If the team loses the match against IBK before facing off with burdensome opponents, it will have to worry that it will drop to the third place, let alone lead the team. As such, victory is desperately needed.