OK Partizan - Niš 3:0 (play-off, quarter-final return match)

Quarter-final: check.
There isn’t much info about it, even the official report says less than usual. We were leading for the whole match, the final result wasn’t really a question. (First set: 25:21, second: 25:16, third: 25:19.) It also means that we are expected to clash with Crvena Zvezda in the semifinal.

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OK Partizan: Buša (11), Pantić (8), Nedeljković (2), Žugić, Lopar (8), Kostić (3), Rajković (libero), Jokanović (4), Veličković (9), Polomac (8), Popović, Perišić (1)
Vezetőedző: Vladimir Vasović

Niš: Rakić, Pejčić, Kuburović (4), Perović (9), Jelić (2), Stojković (5), Kostadinović (libero), Mijalković (5), Opačić (8), Ilić (4), Jović (2)
Vezetőedző: Saša Stefanović

Niš - OK Partizan 1:3 (play-off, quarterfinal)

This is the moment when I’m about to explode.
That’s one thing that I got informed belatedly about this game. But the fact that I knew NOTHING about the previous game, which was the last one in the regular season, that’s more than tragic, seriously. Sometimes I think we should demolish the entire volleyball association, then plough up the place where it was built and throw salt onto the soil. Afterwards we would start it over, based on professional principles, privatizing it from A to Z and I fucking don’t care about that vagina-mouthed idiot, who does not allow to enact the rule about the privatization of sport clubs.
As for the last game of the regular season, we got defeated from Spartak Ljig to 3:0, but we could still get into the play-off.

At the first game of the play-off we had a nice sight-seeing tour at Niš, including stepping over the home team easily. Niš played with surprisingly many mistakes, and we took advantage of them, as it has to be done. In the first set they kept themselves though, winning it to 25:23.

The official report says that we could have actually won even this first set, but at 23:23 we had an imprecise service and we paid the price for that.

Then they didn’t anymore.
They could have a significant collapse, because we won the second set to 15:25 (!!!) with Kostić’s brutal services. The third part wasn’t any better for them, but for us. Lopar too the team on his back and we won it to 19:25. The last set was a marching parade for us with a smooth 14:25.
The return match will be on Saturday starting at 17:00. Upon the rules of the play-off we have to win at least twice to be able to qualify to the next round.

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OK Niš: Pejčić, Kubrović, Perović (7), Jelić, Stojković (7), Kostadinović (libero), Pržić (8), Mijalković (7), Opačić (17), Angelovski (libero), Ilić, Jović
Head coach: Saša Stefanović

OK Partizan: Buša (13), Pantić (13), Nedeljković, Žugić, Lopar (10), Kostić (5), Rajković (libero), Jokanović, Veličković (18), Polomac (8), Popović, Perišić
Head coach: Vladimir Vasović

OK Partizan - Niš 3:0 (superliga, round 14)

This was a well-earned win, and the fact that Niš is ahead of us on the league table makes it even more precious.
Partizan practically jumped on Niš, grabbed them at their throat and didn’t let them go. Polomac did an especially great job, he is said to have an excellent performance. We won the first set to 25:20.
The second set was much closer, but even that was because we made quite a few mistakes.

You get it. The boys didn’t want the game to get too boring. They made it to be more exciting. All for the fans...

We still won it to 27:25.
The third part was a victorious march. We jumped to 8:3 in the beginning and we didn’t allow the guests any closer than 3 points (16:13) even later. We won this last set to 25:21 and earned another victory.

Aleksa Polomac

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OK Partizan: Buša (11), Pantić (15), Žugić, Kostić (3), Mulćan, Tasić, Rajković (libero), Jokanović, Veličković (9), Polomac (15), Popović, Perišić (6)
Head coach: Vladimir Vasović

Niš: Pejčić, Kuburović (4), Perović (7), Jelić, Stamenković, Stojković (6), Kostadinović (libero), Pržić (9), Mijalković, Opačić (11), Ilić, Jović (libero)
Head coach: Saša Stefanović

Current championship standings:
1. CZ 39 points
2. Vojvodina 36 points
3. Novi Pazar 27 points
4. Niš 23 points
5. Partizan 22 points
6. Spartak Ljig 18 points
7. Radnički 15 points
8. Klek 15 points
9. Ribnica 14 points
10. Inđija 1 point

Niš - OK Partizan 3:2 (superliga, round 5)

Isn’t it a fantastic feeling to get to know about a match that was played the day before. May the sky fall onto the entire lazy sports media for giving absolutely no damn on the volleyball superliga (among others).
In the first part we made a fantastic resurrection. The home team was leading to 16:9, finally we switched the standing and won to 25:27. In the second part the home team was leading constantly, always with 2-3 points, eventually winning it to 25:20, equalizing the standing to 1:1. Then came the third part, it was uncertain for the whole time who would win it. Finally we did, with blood and sweat, to 23:25, taking back the lead. For the fourth set (as reports say) Partizan started to get exhausted a bit. The home team kept on blocking all our attempts, which helped them winning it to 25:18. They equalized, so the decision about who’d win was left for the last game.
This last part was the drama of dramas as the official report says. There were 70 (!) fouls and mistakes counted, finally Niš won to 20:18, eventually winning the match itself after more than three and a half hours of battle.
The hero of the day was again Dimitrije Pantić with 20 points. He is followed by Boris Buša and Luka Veličković (15-15), Dušan Lopar (10) and Aleksa Polomac (8).

League table will be brought later.

Update: current championship standings
1. Vojvodina 12 points
2. Novi Pazar 10 points*
3. Niš 9 points
4. CZ 9 points*
5. Spartak Ljig 9 points
6. Klek 8 points
7. Partizan 7 points
8. Radnički 5 points
9. Ribnica 2 points
10. Inđija 1 point

Teams marked with * have played only 4 matches so far.