Visiting neighbors
On Wednesday we play in Nizhnevartovsk with Ugra-Samotlor. History of meetings with neighbors, as you understand, we have a long and mostly victorious. Though, of course, not without difficulties, especially when visiting. In Nizhnevartovsk in recent years, quite militant groups have been formed, capable of delivering surprises. Last season the Vartovites slowed down, ended up in the playout, and in the summer they almost completely reformatted the team.
In fact, There are three left from last year's lineup: finishers Alexander Militsky (native, by the way, from Surgut), Nikita Aksyutin and libero Danil Davletshin. The positions of setters were filled by the experienced Sergei Bagrey and the young Kazan graduate Denis Tolok, Gleb Radchenko from Tyumen and Mikhail Nikkel from the Zenit St. Petersburg system came into the diagonal, Alexander Popleteev joined the ranks of players, performed in recent years in Estonia, Egypt and Iraq and Sergei Kostrov, played for "Academy-Kazan" from the major league "A".
Ugra-Samotlor faced the greatest problems at the start of the season in the center of the grid: Mikhail Kulygin and Alexey Zemlyanko had to play virtually without replacements. But during the championship, Nizhnevartovsk added 33-year-old Stanislav Kassel from MSTU, who immediately took his place in the base. curious, that at different times he played with Kulygin, and with Zemlyanko for the Moscow team in the major league “A”. It remains to be added, that Davletshin was paired with libero German Mellis, transferred from Dynamo Chelyabinsk.
In the assets of "Ugra-Samotlor", like Gazprom-Yugra, two victories – over ASK and Ural. Which means, that after a head-to-head match between the Ugra teams, one of them will be able to go ahead. There is little point in talking about the importance of the upcoming match, all games in the Super League are important. Condition is more important, in which the residents of Surgut will take to the site, first of all – psychological. We believe in the guys and expect at least quality, meaningful volleyball, which will allow the team to return to their fighting strength.
