Stars will converge at Sibur-Arena
By agreement between Zenit St. Petersburg and Gazprom-Yugra, the match of the last round of the regular part of the national championship is scheduled for Friday. From a tournament point of view, the game is important for the hosts - they must not lose points in the fight against the "Torch" for the fifth place. Surgut residents won't lose, nothing to acquire, but as the head coach of Gazprom-Ugra Anton Malyshev said after the match with Dynamo, every game is important for the further development of the team.
It is this process of formation that we observe at Gazprom-Yugra this season.. Progress is evident, so it won't be easy even for Zenit St. Petersburg at Sibur-Arena. Thomas Sammelvuo's team is the best equipped in the Russian championship, but the current fourth place seems to hint, that there is a long distance from the equipment to the game.
In fairness it should be noted, that Zenit is traditionally unlucky with injuries, or vice versa - lucky for them. Most of the season, a Cuban spiker with a Russian passport Oreol Camejo was treated, Yegor Klyuka still hasn't really recovered, flew out of the clip Victor Poletaev, Dmitry Pashitsky was recently commissioned. For another team, such losses could be fatal., but the margin of safety for St. Petersburg residents is such, that even without these performers, the fourth place is perceived as a relative failure.
However, playoffs ahead and can still be fixed. There are two main questions before the match with Gazprom-Yugra: will Camejo finally return and will Poletaev take part in the game. In recent matches, we regularly saw Kirill Ursov as an outplayer, I'd love to meet him at the site. Unshakable positions of French setter Antoine Brizard and central blocker Ivan Yakovlev, a pair of liberos are Sergey Melkozerov and our well-known Evgeny Andreev.
Will it be able to oppose something to the stellar team "Gazprom-Yugra"? Sure, Yes! Your game. If it goes, St. Petersburg residents may have serious problems, which were recently experienced by the players of "Kuzbass" and, on certain segments, capital Dynamo. Today the people of Surgut do not surrender to anyone without a fight, and they don't give up at all - our team is tenacious and corrosive, able to get under the skin of anyone. In the current season 12 March we will play the last regular season match against one of the grandees of national volleyball and the guys will certainly try to arrange a holiday for all their fans - at least with a beautiful game and a fascinating plot.
