The men’s volleyball champion “Levski” began the defense of its championship title with a decisive victory in the eternal derby with CSKA, which opened the 2024/2025 season.
In the “Levski Sofia” hall, the boys of head coach Nikolay Zhelyazkov repeated the exercise from the semi-final for the Super Cup 6 days ago, but were more convincing – 3:0 (25:19, 25:19, 25:14).
The success is the 9th in a row for the “blues” in the eternal derby.
The first game was tied at 5:5. After that, the leftists methodically built up an advance to take a 1:0 lead after 25:19.
In the second part, the offensive of the boys in blue started from 4:4 and at one point their lead became 9 points. The final score was again 25:19.
In the third game, the home team finally left no doubt who was better on the field – 25:14, and ignited the stands.
The winning point was scored by Levski Dimitar Peychinov, who turned 16 last week and made his debut for the men’s team.
Zhelyazkov rested Todor Skrimov, who had a mild virus, in this match, and Julius Firkal was the starter.
The captain Svetoslav Gotsev went wild in the derby. The center scored 15 points (1 ace, 5 blocks). Together with him, Venislav Antov was the top scorer – 15 points (1 ace, 4 blocks), and Gotsev was elected MVP. In total, the Blues scored 13 points from the block.
Vladi Gharkov and Firkal contributed 11 and 10 points to win the derby.
In the second round of the championship, “Levski” hosts “Neftokhimik” on October 26 at 7 p.m.