An impressive victory in the hit of the PlusLiga round! The great return of Bartosz Kwolek

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The Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie team had been facing major health problems since the beginning of the season and was still missing one of the key players in the starting six. Their center and captain, Mateusz Bieniek, waited over a month to return to the game, because he had to be sidelined for several weeks due to a foot injury he suffered during the Olympic Games. Later, after three rounds, the receiver Bartosz Kwolek was dropped due to health problems, and coach Michał Winiarski will not be able to use Miłosz Zniszczoł for about a month.

Now the Jurassic Knights are slowly returning to balance in terms of composition, and excellent proof of this is their convincing victory over PGE GiEK Skra Bełchatów 3-0 on Saturday.

The Zawiercie team allowed their rivals from Bełchatów to score a maximum of 21 points in one set, and the good news could have been not only the great play by setter Miguel Atavares, but also an important comeback. Bartosz Kwolek was in the starting six for the Aluron match for the first time in almost five weeks. It is true that the 27-year-old receiver appeared as a substitute last weekend in the lost match against Trefl Gdańsk (2:3), but it was only on Saturday that he got a chance from the very beginning.

The match in Zawiercie was called the 10th round of PlusLiga, but it lasted extremely short, although this does not mean that the hosts crushed their rivals in every aspect. The Bełchatów team did not have so many arguments on their side, because in the PGE GiEK Skra team the main driving force was the attacker Amin Esmaeilnezhad (12 points), but there was no equal distribution of power in the offensive.

On the Jurassic Knights’ side, Tavares led the game very well, using the strength of the wingers, the second-line attack, and the potential of the midfielders, as evidenced by Mateusz Bieniek’s 100% attack effectiveness.

Immediately after the match, he admitted on Polsat Sport that although it was not his debut this season, but another match after the break, he only now felt his rhythm regained.

— I felt great on the pitch. We played with great commitment. And the defeat in Gdańsk was a stick in the nose for us and acted a bit like a rag to a bull – admitted Bieniek in an interview with Polsat Sport.

The Zawiercie team took a big risk in the service field, and Tavares had the most aces (3 points with a serve). The team from Bełchatów had a very difficult task to perform effective actions after receiving these difficult balls. Skra only got closer to their rivals in points at times, especially in the second and third sets. In the second part, after a long action full of impressive defenses, including one by Aluron’s libero Luke Perry (he subdued Amin’s short attack), Kwolek scored an important point for his team at 19:18. Later, Karol Butryn broke his rivals not only with an effective attack, but also with his serve. Two sets were finished with point attacks by the duo of the league’s leading receivers, Kwolek and Aaron Russell.

Mateusz Bieniek was chosen MVP of the match.

ALURON CMC WARTA ZAWIERCIE – PGE GiEK Skra BEŁCHATÓW 3:0 (25:17, 25:21, 25:20)