Before starting the competition for the bronze medal, the favorite was JSW Jastrzębski Węgiel, which as the winner of the PlusLiga's main round was tipped to defend gold. Only that the team Marcelo Mendez caught a crisis, which was also confirmed by the first game o bronze with PGE Project Warsawloser on your own floor smoothly 0: 3 (22:25, 22:25, 21:25). In the second meeting at Torwar, the Polish champions still wanted to bounce off the bottom and not only equalize the state of competition (up to 3 wins), but also start rebuilding the disposition before the Final Four of the Champions League in Łódź, which will take place in less than two weeks.
The Warsaw project is one step away from the bronze medal PlusLiga. Polish champion again on the shield
The clash of Jastrzębian with Warsaw was extremely fierce this time. The beginning of the meeting belonged to guests who quickly took the lead 8: 5. In the next part of the first set, their advantage increased to four points after Andrzej Wrona's car attack (8:12), and in the optimal moment the hawks even led by seven points after the error of Linus Weber (12:17).
At that time, however, the project started to work solidly. With Artur Szalpuk's service, he scored as many as six points in a row and after the attack Jakub Kochanowski In the counter he took the lead 18:17. Until the very end, the set was very even. Despite this, the guests managed to win two set balls at 22:24, but the effective attacks of Artur Szalpuk and Linus Weber led to the advantage. Guests kept more cold blood in it – after the block of Łukasz Kaczmarek on Weber won 30:28.
In the initial phase of the second set, none of the teams managed to win more than two points of advantage. This only changed after the unsuccessful attack of Tomasz Fornal, after which the hosts had result 15:12. Jakub Kochanowski's websites caused a lot of problems to visitors and the advantage of the Warsaw residents increased to five points (17:12) after the error of Luciano Vicentina.
Volleyballers Marcelo Mendez meticulously began to make up for the losses. First, they reduced them to 2-3 points, and then from 21:18 they scored three more points after three mistakes of their opponents in play and attack. After a while, however, the Fornal was also mistaken and it was 23:21. There was an analogous situation, which in the first party, because although the project had two set balls at 24:22, the effective attacks of Norbert Huber and Tomasz Fornal led to equalization after 24. Then Tobias Brand became the hero, who attacked effectively in two consecutive balls, thanks to which the hosts won 26:24.
Already then on the dance floor there was a reserve attacking PGE project – Bartłomiej Bołądź, whose great attitude in the attack allowed Warsaw to reverse the result of this meeting after defeat in the first set. The third party is a certain victory for Piotr Graban's team, who led from the first to the last ball with a difference of several points, at the optimal moment even 18:11 or 19:12. Ultimately, she won to 21 after a successful Linus Weber attack. However, it is impossible not to mention 67 percent. Effectiveness in the Bołdzia attack, which in the second and third sets ended up to 14 out of 21 fawn.
The fourth set is a very good and even fight on both sides for a long time. The project volleyballers included a higher run than 14:15, when they scored five more points when playing Jan Firlej, using rivals' mistakes and their own good counterattack. From 19:15 Polish champions have not risen anymore and did not return to the game. After an unsuccessful action with the Plasa in the Luciano Vicentina net, the fourth party ended with a result of 25:20 for the project that won in the entire meeting 3: 1.
MVP of the match was chosen Bartłomiej Bołądź, who scored 19 points (64 percent in the attack), even though he entered the game in the second set for good. As many as four other volleyballers of the project also added a two -digit number of points – Tobias Brand (15), Jakub Kochanowski (14), Artur Szalpuk (13) and Andrzej Wrona (11). Tomasz Fornal (19), Łukasz Kaczmarek (17) and Luciano Vicentin (14) scored the best for Jastrzębski Węgiel.
In the competition for the bronze medal to three wins PGE Projekt Warszawa is already leading 2: 0, and the third meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 7 at 17:30 in Jastrzębie-Zdrój.