Poland vs Germany Highlights Week 2 Men s VNL 2026

Poland and it's Poland serving in red. In front of a packed house here against Germany in white on the right. Slivka with the float serve. Brand. Overs his account nice and early. Looking on the pass. Slivka with the left hand just waits. Makes a little bit confusion for Germany. Swing comes off the tape and then gets put away by the left hand. Slivka. It's so important when Slivka is up front that Germany knows where he is. Because of that lefty swing the blockers have to line up just a little bit differently and this time he beats them inside. Zimmermann dropping this one short. Slivka also drops it short. Gets a touch off the block though. Brand up gets himself underneath this ball. Sends it across. Big chase coming in for Raws but it's too far away on the deflection. Catching for Bermes. He goes off to the switch off. Yearn off. Kubaschak won't want to watch that one back again. Go on. He'll be happy to watch that one. Many times he likes that angle with the left hand. Goes cross court. Brand coming unload a big serve in between him and his Libro. The opponent comes straight back. Shimon and Kubaschak puts it away. Rested today at the moment. You may see him at some point. Zimmermann brings the pipe attack into play. Leon does a really good job to keep that up. Free ball option. Ball to the opposite and it's a massive block coming in from the captain Slivka. That's all defense on Poland's side. Incredible rundown by the setter. Kamenda chases this one. Falls down and they're able to get that front court defense. Slivka. Big play to get a lot of momentum there. Varga for some trouble from the service line. Slivka's there. That's a good position on the block and it's Zimmermann. Zimmermann shutting out the sound. Dropping another one short onto the tape. Slivka. Lovely ball in. Leon off the hands. Chance for Germany to steal it and they do. The silence says all that has happened. 25-23. Germany take the first set. Let's go with set two. It's Germany getting us underway with Brand serving. Again another one. Clip of the tape. Middle end. Good reactions from Brand. Free ball though. Boanj on the angle. First really good swing from Boanj. This is something that Germany... 11-6. Just off the tape as well. Oh it's a monster block coming in from Wilfredo Leon. Huge play on Poland's side. Playing aggressive on both sides of the ball. Here's Leon in a great position. Hands in the right spot. Coming in with the serve here. That's a good side out coming in from Crick. Leon. Way too easy on him. You give him that freebie like that. Expectant of this game to be leveled at one set piece. Can't bring the middle into play. Goes off the block. Now the left hand. Down the line. Good touch. New chap. Leon with the gentle touch. Laws off the three meter line. Free ball. Lemanski goes to the left. He's close. Leon serving. Off tempo this one. Doesn't catch. Shot out. Good run through the middle but it is shut out by Władysław Lemanski. Leon to close the set out. To level the game at one set a piece. Pickles off the net. It roars into the hands. It's a big block. Good recovery. And then a big swing down the line. That ball sails into the crowd. Kushner comes in as the defensive specialist backcourt. Oh it's close to the line on the All quick reactions from Germany. Boanch to close it out. Not yet. Roars at full stretch. There it is. This game is leveled at one set a piece and Poland were dominant. Everything about that set went Poland's way. The way that they were able to run their offense. The stifling block. Good aggressive swing. Good take from Szalbuk. Boanch targets the set up. Left hand opposite goes long on the swing. No touch given. That's it. Lemanski rolls that one in. Crick comes in this time. Swing it across to one. More of Germany feeding the middle here. It takes a good pass to do that and they get a really good look at it. That middle is one on one. Good finish from Crick this time. Letting it pass his body. Yeah well that is a beautiful swing through the middle around the 27 year old. Good dance. Three places club volleyball. Forces an overpass this time put away. Nice ball in. Men has all the options available. Oh lovely touch coming in. Simplicity at its best. Overpass. Chance here. Well no roll shot there. Just a big swing deep to the center. Boanch. That has caught the line. Third ace of the set for Poland. Szalbuk deep serve to five. Big block coming in from Lemanski. He's up. Leon. Oh there it is. Set point coming in now for Poland. Reaching swing from Sasak. Jern on the angle has found it. Off tempo. Drops that short. Comes straight back to the middle. Great defensive work. Roars and it's a shutout block by Poland. Trying to find the rhythm. Germany then gets underway with set four. Short one in. Leon. He just waits and waits and still that right arm comes over the top of the ball. It's been targeted this five-five serve. He's got another one. Back-to-back aces. Subs in the fans in the first 10 rows know they're in danger zone here. Oh that block was all over Germany. But we'll see if they came down on it. Looks clean. Either player could have taken that. If you're going to take it away from there you've got to make sure you deliver on it as well. Exactly. Ace serve coming in. 15-11 now. Lemanski. He's got a license to swing for the service line today. Oh that's a commander. He's a top blocker in the game. Zoom up. Great touch from Slivka. Leon dodges the cameraman and Boaz gets the touch and whatever they touch turns to gold right now. Easy Red is coming to VNL halfway through the competition. You bet he is. Another big one. 122 kilometers an hour. Eric Rawls again drops that foot and fires that angle. Rawls tight. One-handed set. Good put away at the end by Germany. Oh he's fine there isn't he? He's absolutely fine. Two-point game now. 23-15. Oh it's another ace serve coming in to set up match points. It's another big one. High time for Zimmermann. Rijkaard into the hands. Lemanski turn provider. Schalke. Poland take it. Victory for Poland.