Round three: dynamo at its zenith?
Dynamo, As you know, this is a DC generator. Zenith - the highest point of a celestial body. Electro-astronomical confrontation in Moscow will become, certainly, not only the main event of the tour, but also one of the most interesting confrontations in the championship. Duel Mikhailov - Sokolov, Pankov – Christensen, Deru vs former team, etc.. Lots of personal intrigue., but volleyball is still a team game, and here the functional readiness of the opponents as a whole will come to the fore.
"Zenit-Kazan", as known, completes the cycle of physical loading, and if with Neftyanik and Novaya this background did not particularly interfere, then in Moscow it is critically important, how much the coaching staff calculated the way out from under these very loads, How close can Zenith get to its zenith? (clear, that the peak of form is still far away). In Dynamo, the situation is similar - the team is just starting to gain momentum, generate the same current.
Muscovites serve seems to promise them some points reserve, but known, that Christensen is able to turn a minus in a technique into an attacking plus. At the same time, Kazan also has someone to shoot from behind nine meters. You can continue to compare these two teams in a similar spirit.: for each argument of the opponent, the opponent has no less weighty. The decisive factor in such equal fights is usually the purity of the game., willingness of leaders to lead.
I dare to guess, that other things being equal, the balance can shift in one direction or another through the efforts of Dmitry Volkov or Yaroslav Podlesny - these two players take responsibility at key moments. The coaching duel between Konstantin Bryansky and Alexei Verbov will also be very interesting., professing slightly different approaches to volleyball ("war" against "game"), their tactical ideas and situational decisions. Generally, tour match, anyway, and even the battle for the first trophy of the season, super bowl.
There will be another fundamental confrontation in the third round, but since Gazprom-Ugra is a member, let's talk about it separately. In the rest - again a lot of obvious results. Dynamo-LO is unlikely to allow Neftyanik to get hold of points in Sosnovy Bor, like the Novosibirsk "Locomotive" at home - to Minskers. St. Petersburg "Zenith" may experience local difficulties in the match with a well-organized "New", but this is not the case, when order beats class, rather the opposite. "Belogorye" after the defeat in Ufa is eager to rehabilitate, and Yenisei is quite a suitable opponent for this.
Intrigue can be predicted in Nizhny Novgorod and Kemerovo. ASC is a kind of "hard nut" of the Superleague, which is not easy to gnaw even for top teams. "Torch" is only striving for the "tops", but he needs to prove his worth just in such matches: through stubborn resistance, through tension. Grankin and Sivozhelez do I now update it, what they lacked last season – experience and resilience at key moments. "Torch" is more of a favorite, but the match will be interesting, possible precipitation in the form of meatballs.
Updated "Ural" will arrive in Kemerovo, which looked very solid in the game against Belogorye with its towers, Esfandiar (209) and Potaluk (210). And if Potaluk is power in its purest form, then the Iranian player, with his height, looks like a real station wagon. Serious buff, which transformed the face of the Bashkir squad and gave them hope to swing at William our Shakespeare. Plus the Argentinian Cavanna, in no way inferior to Poroshin as a game. At Kuzbass, everything is still not very clear: Klets alternates great stretches with pounding outs, there are questions on the position of the binder, Obmochaev, Moiseev and Karpukhov in the infirmary. Opponents are equal in this match, that is, we will see another exciting duel. The Russian Championship in the PARI Super League is gaining momentum and the third round should already be that tuning fork, by which one can judge the true level of the tournament.
