After catching up with their rival’s lead in sets twice, Jastrzębski Węgiel prevailed over Grupa Azoty ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle to win their second consecutive Polish Men’s Volleyball Super Cup.
After over two and a half hours of excitement in front of nearly 4,000 spectators at the Hala Globus in Lublin, Jastrzębski won the 2022 Polish Men’s Super Cup (AL-KO Superpuchar Polski). Marcelo Méndez’s team defeated ZAKSA after the tie-break: 3-2 (24-26, 25-23, 18-25, 25-20, 15-13).
Last season, ZAKSA won all possible trophies – both domestically and in Europe – except one, the Super Cup, which they lost exactly to Jastrzębski. History repeated this season. Before the match, the team from Jastrzębie-Zdrój, the Polish vice-champions, started the PlusLiga season with a complete set of victories in the first five rounds and it was them who seemed to be the favorites in the match for the Super Cup against the team that had already suffered two losses in the league.
Aside from a defeat, there’s another bad news for ZAKSA, In the middle of the tie-break, their setter (also the Poland National Team setter), Marcin Janusz, twisted his ankle joint and didn’t come back until the end of the match. Frenchman Stéphen Boyer top-scored for Jastrzębski with 22 points. Ukrainian-Polish Jurij Gladyr made 6 blocks. Łukasz Kaczmarek put down 23 points on the losing side. Wojciech Żaliński made 5 blocks.
