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In their last match in pool A, Serbian players faced a so far winless Greece. A win would take Serbia to the top of the group, but with Poland still to play their last game it was not all in their control. At the other end of the standing was Greece who needed to win both of their last matches to stand any chance of being included in the four who will progress to the Eighth Finals in Gdansk.

The first set started with Slobodan Kovac’s players dominating across the net, and they immediately built a five point advantage (6-1). The Hellas seemed not to have any solution for the well-prepared Serbians (18-12), but quite unexpectedly in the end of the set the difference decreased to just two points (22-20). Eventually Serbia took the opening part with an attack from Petar Krsmanović (25-23). The increased competitiveness of Greece was a sign of things to come.

The second part was tight straight from the beginning. Greece even managed to lead the match for the first time (6-5) and then increased it to four points (12-8). Throughout this part Serbia was trying to chase the opponent (21-17), but without success and finally lost this set to 22 points.

After this set loss, the current champions were strongly motivated to fight back and successfully took revenge on the national team of Greece, among the others due to fantastic serves of the middle blocker Aleksandar Okolić (25-16).

The fourth part of this game was again a show of good rallies by both teams (16-16), Greece’s best scorer, Athanasios Protopsaltis, did his best to force the game into the tie-break and after a few failed attempts it happened – first forcing the ball through the Serbian block at the net, before producing an un-returned serve to make it 30-28.

The Serbians opened the fifth set of the match by securing a significant advantage (9-4), which in consequence drove them on to victory not only in this set, but in the whole game as well (15-5).