U-21 Men's Volleyball Championship: Losing To Argentina 2-3, Indonesia's Steps Are Getting Tough

JAKARTA - The U-21 Indonesian Men's Volleyball National Team (Timnas) lost when they met Argentina U-21 in the fourth match of Group D of the 2025 U-21 Volleyball World Championships (FIVB Volleyball Men's U-21 World Championship 2025), Monday, August 25, 2025, Jiangmen Sports Center, Jiangmen, China.

The Red-White team played tight before losing 2-3 with a score of 25-23, 25-27, 25-23, 20-25.

Indonesia struggled to carry out the Argentine attack at the start of the first set. However, they reversed the advantage when creating five consecutive points in the middle of the set and changed the position to 15-13.

In a superior position, the Garuda Muda Team played so stable that they finally closed the first set with 25-23.

In the second set, it was Argentina's turn to master the game from the start of the match. On the other hand, Indonesia has difficulty building attacks because they are often wrong in receiving the ball.

Entering the middle of the set, Argentina is five points ahead at 15-10. Even so, Anwar Sadat's team never gave up.

They finally turned things around until they equalized to 25-25. However, Argentina managed to control the situation at a critical point so that they equalized 1-1 after winning 27-25.

In the third set, Indonesia played more aggressively even though it had difficulty playing the Argentine fast attack.

The two teams were then equally strong 17-17 until entering the middle of the set. Bagas Wijanarko and his friends gained point by point at the end of the set until they then won 25-23.

In the fourth set, Argentina rose by launching variations of attacks to dismantle Indonesia's defenses.

Tango's team also took the lead 17-11 long before winning the fourth set with a fairly far margin, 25-20. The fourth set is the only set with a difference of more than two points.

The match continued to the fifth set. In this determination set, Indonesia tried to press and force a 10-10 draw.

However, Argentina was so solid that it closed the last set with a position of 15-13.

This result made Indonesia drop to fifth place with five points after winning once and losing twice.

Garuda Muda's steps to the round of 16 are increasingly difficult. They had to face France U-21 in the last match of Group D on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

Victory became a fixed price in that match if they wanted to enter the round of 16. If they fail, they will only participate in the classification fight ranked 17-24.

France is not an easy opponent. The reason is, their qualifying for the round of 16 has been guaranteed thanks to three wins and one defeat from four matches.