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Spain started with two succesful hits from the middle, but after that Russia's hard serve made middle play almost impossible. Andres Jesus Villena blocked Dmitri Volkov alone and tied the set at 9 - 9. This set the Spanish team on fire and forced Russia on a time-out at 11 - 9. Villena served an ace at 15 - 11. Russia gathered their rows and got 5 consecutive points (ace, three blocks and opponent error) and turned the situation 19 - 23. Iakovlev ended the set from the middle.

Spain was not going to give up and got a flash start. Russians tried to come up with new moves on time-out at 8 - 4 and 14 - 8. This helped, and Spain took time-out at 16 - 12 to calm their nerves. Ramon Ferragut was the character of the set with 8 points and led the team to victory 25 - 20.

Russians attacked effectively from all positions in third set. Time-outs at 6 -10 and 14 - 19 for Spain couldn't turn the tables and Russians cruised to set victory 16 - 25 with Egor Kliuka's strong performance with 6 points.

In fourth set Russia had a few point lead from the start. The closest Spain was able to get was one point difference. Kliukas's ace forced Spain for time out at 10 - 17 . Russia gave rest for some the starting six players and calmed the team on a timeout at 16 - 23. Outside hitter Fedor Voronkov presented himself well after entering the court in third set. Set to Russia 17 - 25 and game 1 - 3. Kliuka was yet again the top scorer (27 points) with good support from Volkov (16 points). Villena tallied 14 points, but his light was dimmed by several mistakes (14 / +1).