Second round: the same in profile

Results of the first round in most matches predict it was not difficult - due to the obvious difference in class between rivals. We hoped, that we will fight in Belgorod, but didn't work out. What is the second tour preparing for us? Roughly the same: we have a lot of obvious and a little bit incredible.

Obvious

"Yenisei" will move from St. Petersburg in the neighborhood to Sosnovy Bor, but that doesn't make him very happy.: local Dynamo are still toothy. One set, perhaps, may yield, but not more. And it's not even about Biryukov, Pirainene and Serbs, but in, that Dmitry Yakovlev is not yet Kirill Klets. Yenisei always had a bet on a striking diagonal plus a couple of reliable players. Now this scheme has gone downhill., and there are no alternative solutions.

Neftyanik had no luck at the start - the second game and Zenit again, Petersburg this time. On the other hand, sometime you still need to play with the leaders - so why not at the start? Then it will be easier, yes, and the game will be restored. In the meantime, we are waiting for another demonstration of air superiority from Poletaev, Gossip and Co.

Kazan got "Nova". Novokuibyshevites also make a protracted tour of the debutant in the "places of power": after Novosibirsk and Kazan, Peter is waiting for them, Sosnovy Bor and Belgorod. But something tells, that this route is unlikely to become Via Dolorosa for Igor Shulepov's wards: points they, can, and will not collect, but the nerves of the opponent will be shaken, and their, vice versa, strengthen. Denis Tolok is very good, but with him, Nova still has a chance, if not for a set, then for self-affirmation. With Mike Christenson, which may appear on the site, these chances will be less.

Fakel in Novy Urengoy, probably, will beat Yugra-Samotlor. It's just that the "local" boys are more talented, and Grankin with Sivozhelez and Andreev give them the necessary confidence.

Incredible

In Minsk, Stroitel after the championship Dynamo will play with ASK. Strengthened just by the Dynamo youth, Belarusians are able to give battle in their native walls. Another thing, that ASK is not afraid of battle, feels like a fish in water in difficult conditions. Even the loss of two diagonals did not take Nizhny Novgorod by surprise, and a lesson will surely be learned from unclenched jaws in Nizhnevartovsk. will win, probably, experience, but the unbelievable.

"Ural" will try its best to rehabilitate at home, but "Belogoriya", like that snake, does not matter. The match fell into the incredible section, because Rybakov, Feoktistov, Nikitin and Gutsalyuk may be on a roll, and there is also Samoylenko, speaking in Belgorod. There is also a joker in the form of Roman Potaluk. "Belogorye" looks like a single harmonious organism, in which al-Khachdadi is just beginning to gain power, but the rest of the "cogs" in place. If the guests play just as cleanly, as in the first round at home, then everything will be obvious.

Well, the most incredible match of the tour - Dynamo against Lokomotiv. Plamen Konstantinov has half of the squad unavailable due to injuries, including the main binder and diagonal. Paradoxically, this can play in favor of the guests: no moral burden, but there is potential. In the center of "Loco" in order, Kazachenkov has something to prove, like the veteran Berezhko against the "former". Another thing, that the champions are in perfect order and will surely put pressure there, where "loco" hurts: they will beat through Tisevich and serve to Savin. It is generally difficult to overestimate the phenomenon of the Dynamo branded presentation - the same Pankov, in principle, does not care, which area to apply.