2024 - 04
2024 - 04
2024 - 04
2024 - 02
2024 - 04
2024 - 03
previous arrow
next arrow

Zenit in Surgut

Zenit-Kazan in Surgut is always interesting. Take, eg, match of the last round of the preliminary part of the championship 2020 of the year. A pandemic was already looming, but nobody knew yet, that in connection with it, the playoffs and the Final Six will be canceled, and the champion will be announced based on the results of the regular season. And Kazan just fought with Novosibirsk Lokomotiv for the first line, as it turned out - and for the championship. And they missed him in Surgut, without even knowing it.

Then, by the way, Kazan residents were also led by Alexey Verbov. He spent the last season at Kuzbass, beating Zenit in the standings. Now, returning to Kazan and Surgut, it will surely remind the players (and will tell someone) about that match for a better mood for the upcoming fight.

But this meeting is already a new story. Gazprom-Ugra has diagonal problems instead of Machei Muzai, at Zenit, Maxim Mikhailov long ago returned to his usual position after the then unsuccessful experiment with the transition to the game. Comparing the squads of Kazan and Surgut is how to arrange a race between an elite BMW and a working Volkswagen. But, Fortunately, volleyball is not a race, here the power of the motor does not decide everything. So to speak: not always decides everything.

Nevertheless, so far, "Zenit-Kazan" looks like that very elite car, despite an important new detail - Mike Christenson as a binder. In theory, grinding in a ligament with a team takes some time, but it took Christenson a week, to understand, how does everything work here, and bring your own vision of the game. Vision is smart and fast, what the doctor prescribed to Bednozh and Dmitry Volkov, who was already playing with him in Modena, who came to the place of Erwin Ngapeth. There are still rough edges with Mikhailov, but two great masters will find each other, do not doubt.

Zenit sharpens its traditional weapon in the offseason: attacking trident sideplayers-diagonal, adding a powerful computer to the distribution. Basically, this knowledge about Kazan people is enough. Experience traditionally decides at Zenit's center: Artem Volvich - Alexander Volkov - Dmitry Shcherbinin, in rotation - master of filing Andrey Surmachevsky, left-handed Denis Zemchenok, experienced Yuri Berezhko. By the behest of the calendar, Gazprom-Yugra is playing the third match with the favorite in a row, and there is still a trip to Moscow to "Dynamo". But it, perhaps, for the better: the team is testing skills on the strongest. "Kuzbass" managed to gnaw off one batch - how will it come out with "Zenith"?

Last news
Kirill Nikiforov: "With great hope and faith in myself, I'm going to Surgut"
club news

Kirill Nikiforov: "With great hope and faith in myself, I'm going to Surgut"

Andrey Bobrov: “I want to prove to myself, what can I play in the top division "
club news

Andrey Bobrov: “I want to prove to myself, what can I play in the top division "

Alexander Chefranov: “There will be a different load, But all the more interesting "
club news

Alexander Chefranov: “There will be a different load, But all the more interesting "

Slavi Kostadinov: «No competition, And mutual assistance "
club news

Slavi Kostadinov: «No competition, And mutual assistance "

Goran Stamenkovic: "People on volleyball rejoice and suffer - this is life"
club news

Goran Stamenkovic: "People on volleyball rejoice and suffer - this is life"

Vladimir Kondusov: “I am a warrant officer, which is responsible for everything "
club news

Vladimir Kondusov: “I am a warrant officer, which is responsible for everything "

Forever with us
club news

Forever with us

Rafael Habibullin: "Changing the gait no longer can"
club news

Rafael Habibullin: "Changing the gait no longer can"

Our wings have grown!
club news

Our wings have grown!

Yukior ended the season in fifth place of the MVL Cup
club news

Yukior ended the season in fifth place of the MVL Cup

Yukior begins the struggle for the MVL Cup
Youth League club news

Yukior begins the struggle for the MVL Cup

80 years of great victory!
club news

80 years of great victory!

that we have come this way together and we will go through much more, Oleg Viktorovich!
club news

that we have come this way together and we will go through much more, Oleg Viktorovich!

Gazprom-Yugra VK phenomenon: Guinness records and chef Le Cordon Bleu
club news

Gazprom-Yugra VK phenomenon: Guinness records and chef Le Cordon Bleu

Yukior second in Russia!
club news

Yukior second in Russia!

Decisive games in MVL
Youth League club news

Decisive games in MVL

Made, what could
club news

Made, what could

Behind the cup
club news

Behind the cup

The finale of the six, DAY FIVE. Almost sensation and cummy
Youth League club news

The finale of the six, DAY FIVE. Almost sensation and cummy

The finale of the six, DAY FOUR. Three times by 3:1
Youth League club news

The finale of the six, DAY FOUR. Three times by 3:1