Return to the throne?
Cup of Russia left for the outside observer, the two main impressions. The first - a slight deja vu, from the category of "somewhere we have this" Zenit-Kazan "have seen ...". The second - at least a little disappointed. We kind of become accustomed, that we fight during the interregnum, but no. All three matches - in the dry.
disappointed, mainly, "Kuzbass". Poletaev not played, but that is no excuse. He would still alone will not beat Kazan, and no one from kemerovchan the game really well and are not included. What is the reason? Yes, with anything. burned. tired. It does not matter. Kobzar was nezateyliv, doigrovschika on ternary block not rescued, first ran the pace in warm-up mode ... All tools, allowed the "Kuzbass" play and win even without Poletaeva, collapsed. Since reception.
In the "Zenith", by the way, reception went even a bit worse. But this did not prevent Bucko & Co. show class game in the allotted balls, strangled by the same opponents and supply unit. Sit here and think - whether to "Zenith" returned the former, whether the "Kuzbass" was so bad? Probably, and that, and other. Against the background of the fallen champion in the functional pit exhausted Cup World Cup winner looked fresh, as a young radish.
To confirm the thesis was to wait for the final, and in the second semi-final, meanwhile, pulled Sam Deru "Dynamo" by the collar, catching Petrograd. In general, the game was livelier and more interesting, the inhabitants of the cultural capital - posobrannee at crucial moments. Maar had eaten in the reception and leveled the expected balance in doigrovku, Shkulyavichus bombed less heap, than Grozer, Punks with Svintitskisom tried to keep momentum, but they falter - and tactical, and a technical. "Zenith" has played more smoothly, adding at the right moments, and doge challenger, rebounding from an account 13:16 in the third set.
The composition of the finalists looked naturally, in the main match it is expected more or less equal fight. As a result, the St. Petersburg group only in the third set showed teeth, maintain a high level of the proposed volleyball, and in the rest ... About Ostap Bender wrote in the newspaper: "I fell under the horse". St. Petersburg "Zenith" has got under Kazan supply. How can you beat "Zenit-Kazan", if they always have a joker up his sleeve in the form of Surmachevskogo or Zemchenkov - people, who go out and snap decision, like pins in a bowling alley?
While, the overall level of the game was a respectable Kazan, more than ever, at least, in this format. it seems, finally settled into doigrovku Mikhailov, He took away his Sokolov, stir centers, I frolicked on torn Ngapet block. plus block, plus Butko, Remember the best years. Generally, in the New Year Russian volleyball comes to the idea of ??the return of the Kazan "Zenith" on the throne - at least, currently there are all preconditions.
What we congratulate Kazan, not just with a record, the sixth consecutive Cup of Russia.
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