There is someone to win
On Friday, Gazprom-Ugra will play one of the most important matches of the season. The victory in Orenburg slightly moved the contenders for the playoffs from the bottom, but to consolidate the result, it is necessary to take revenge on Nova, in order to further increase the distance before a series of final games with leaders, where to look for victory will be much more difficult.
Basically, it's all, what you need to know about motivation before the upcoming fight. I will only add, that such a burden of responsibility is quite seriously pressing: it's always hard to play. hope, that our guys will be able to get rid of this load before going to the site, loosen up and show that volleyball, what they are capable of. Then the result will come.
To unload ourselves a little, I offer an interesting tour of the opponent's application list. There are so many familiar names! Starting with Nova captain Alexander Chefranov, who for many years faithfully played in Surgut. Moving on - Ivan Lukyanenko, our binder of last year's sample. Kirill Fialkovsky, moved from Gazprom-Ugra to Nova last season. Nikolay Beskrovny. Nikita Eremin. Gregory Dragunov. No other Superleague club has such a representation of our "former".
But that's not all! Vadim Ozhiganov entered the Super League with Novaya Gazeta last year, and the head coach Alexander Gorbatkov worked in the camp of our opponent as the head coach. Yes, and Nikita Alekseev probably remembers himself well in the Nova jersey. This is such an interesting thread, about which I, it seems, already said before the first round match. Then, unexpectedly for ourselves, we lost in four games, and this is a good reason to return from the "interesting facts" section to the realities of the upcoming battle.
«New», managed to change the head coach during the championship (instead of Igor Shulepov, she is now being coached by another volleyball player who played for Gazprom-Ugra, Oleg Sogrin), quite capable of causing sensation. Take at least her victory a month ago in Sosnovy Bor. Against this background, the victory over Samotlor no longer seems like a challenge, a, rather, pattern. And let Volga players lose most of the matches, this is not the team, to be underestimated. In addition to the above-mentioned “Surgutians”, it includes experienced Maxim Shpilev and Sergey Busel, strong Denis Litvinov, cunning Sergey Zhukov, that Gafarov's debut will take place at the Premier Arena.
It won't be easy, but who is warned, he is armed. I think, our guys will go to their native teraflex fully armed and will be able to get a much-needed victory, because we also have someone not just to play, a - win.
