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The match began with a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria.

The beginning was highlighted by mistakes by both teams on the serve. The two-point advantage of the guests eliminate the attacks, including the service ace of Bartosz Bednorz (5-5) effective challenge of coach Sammelvuo). 

The point-for-point fight lasted until 15-15 (7-:7,10010, 13-13,). Zaksa gained a two-point lead after Kovacevic's spoilt attack (17015). Although Warta Zawiercie equalized at 20-20 and took over the initiative after Patryk Łaba's service ace (23-22), the fight for the win lasted many more minutes. Finally, after 31 minutes of the game and the action of Aleksander Śliwka, ZAKSA won the opening set 28:26. In the first set, both teams risked serving and committed a total of 15 errors in this element of the game.

Warta Zawiercie did not give up the risky service and after Michał Szałacha's service ace they jumped ahead to 12-9 and after a mistake in the defence of the hosts started leading at 15-10. 

Aluron maintained the point-lead despite the fact that the hosts bounced back diminishing the advantage to two points (19-21, 21-23) and thanks to Patryk Łaba's service ace, they won the second set 25-21 levelling the score to 1-1.

The third set was a "volleyball battle". Powerful serves and short and quick attacks pleased more than two thousand fans gathered in the Azoty hall. Until 20-18 none of the teams managed to gain more than 1-2 point lead. This was changed by two blocks on Kwolek performed by Marcin Janusz and Dawid Smith. Zaksa managed to make bigger the advantage to 22-18. Kwolek, however, rehabilitated himself a moment later and recorded a service ace, and the loss of the visiting team decreased to one point (22-23). 

The experienced ZAKSA, however, did not let the victory and promotion to the CEV CL quarter-finals be snatched away and won the set 25-23 with a successful counterattack. 

In the fourth set, the coaches gave a chance to enter the court to the players from the so-called “second sixes”. Aluron's substitutes were better from the beginning and managed to take the lead 7-5 after Patryk Łaba's service ace and increased the advantage to six points by blocking Wojciech Żaliński on the wing (17-11). A rather bizarre situation took place at 14-19. ZAKSA coach asked for a challenge by reporting touching a block what was not confirmed. The challenge was lost even though the visitors made a mistake in this action because they touched the net at the block. The team from Zawiercie confidently won the fourth set 25-19 and brought the game into a tiebreak.

It was a close call in the beginning of the fifth set. Mistakes in ZAKSA's defence gave Aluron an 8-5 lead and a moment later Łaba's service ace (9-5) and finally a "pyrrhic victory' 15-11 in the tie break.