Let's continue to learn from mistakes
"Gazprom-Ugra" (Surgut): M.Kirillov – Papazov, Fedorov – Beskrovny, Rodychev is Masko, Vishnevetsky/I.Kirillov
"Dinamo-LO" (Pinery): Kavanna – Avdochenko, Renters – Barilo, Biryukov – Voronkov, Shishkin
In the opening of the match, the opponents exchanged a couple of breaks and reached the mark neck to neck 10:11. This is where it all started – the hosts didn’t serve twice, and Avdochenko began to variably knock the Surgutians out of the reception. An important psychological draw happened at the mark 11:14, when Gazprom-Yugra blocked Dynamo-LO’s finishers twice – from the back line and in the fourth zone, but the Sosnovoborians did a great job in insurance, and Rodichev ran into a block with no options. After that, Avdochenko twice more decided the out-games on his own serves., 11:17.
Artem Ivanov appeared on the court for the Surgut team and scored with a single block on Biryukov on Kavanna’s adventurously “flat” pass, but it didn't change the trend of the game. Guests purposefully looked for Masko at the reception, and in not the most convenient gears, neither the Surgut players, neither Papazov could win anything with the center of the grid turned off. Toward the end, Ivanov decorated the ace with a high glider in Biryukova, but the seven mistakes of the Surgut team when putting the ball into play are also not in vain - Masko’s serve into the net set the final verdict, 16:25.
The second batch began with Ace Shomshchikov with a glider in Masko. Nevertheless, having received a digestible reception, Ivanov, who remained on the site, began to actively feed the center of the net, which bore fruit – and in points scored, and more freedom at the edges of the mesh. This time it was an even game down to the numbers 15:15, the opponents played several long, beautiful rallies, but the Surgut team again failed in the formation with the setter leaving the first zone, 15:18.
Masko finally starred in the deuce and scored an ace, 17:18. But Biryukov showed class in the reception, and Voronkov is in attack, then Papazov did not score the passing goal, Voronkov knocked out Vishnevetsky with a short serve and Biryukov beautifully executed a freeball entry into the zone, 17:21. Rodichev, correcting a difficult ball, hit the net, Papazov differed in tempo with the setter, 17:23. Surgut residents again began to make serial mistakes, guests only had to wait for the number “25”.
In the third set, Kirillov came out to pass, Rudnev appeared diagonally. And almost immediately he made two aces in a row, 5:4. There is balance on the site again for a while, and then fail again: Rodichev cannot realize himself in the fourth zone, Skvortsov appears instead, and the account is already 10:13. Skvortsov, with a daring attack under the skin of the emergency ball, tries to keep his distance, 12:15, but then he doesn’t submit it himself and passes on this “infection” to his partners: in the end they also fail in this element Kirillov, Masko (after ace) and Fedorov. And here mathematics is in favor of the guests: three errors accounted for two aces by Litvinenko who left the square, 17:23. All diseases come out again: an unsuccessful pass on a downed technique and Rudnev falls under the “roof”, 17:24. Bloodless hits wide, but Tenants is hurt by the sect, and on the second match point, Avdochenko, with experience at the pace, rolls the ball behind the descending block, 18:25.
Senior coach of VC Dynamo-LO Anton Astashenkov:
Surgut is a very good team, always comes out to play with a good attitude. Today it turned out like this, that we played cleaner – in defense, in attack, and it made a difference in key moments. The guys completed the installations completely and it gave results. Maximiliano is an experienced setter, he knows, what does he do. In the third set, something needed to be changed and he used some adventurous situations, but they were more aimed at that, to confuse your blockers.
Diagonal VC "Dynamo-LO" Pavel Avdochenko:
We won the wrong thing, so that with a reserve, there were certain problems. But we prepared seriously for our opponents, he shouldn't be underestimated. Over the past games, Surgut showed, which can handle very heavy games. Outperformed your opponent in overall play, helped each other, tried to play defense, make fewer mistakes. The coaching staff emphasizes defense, for insurance, at some point we succeeded.
Senior trainer of VC Gazprom-Yugra Alexey Rudakov:
It turns out, that all three of our games were carbon copies. We play evenly in the first half., then in some arrangement we start to slip, we fail to cope with this and lose. We failed to score on high balls a lot, plus we had some small moments, playoffs, which could have been implemented - and it would have been different. Plus a huge number of my mistakes, especially on the serve. They shouldn't serve it like that in their hall.. Dynamo-LO has skilled players, higher class, more targeted and variable presentation - respectively, we are having problems. The guys are trying to show themselves in front of their fans., but it happens - something went wrong, and I don’t have enough courage to turn the game around, we can't lift a heavy ball, to get a boost of support from viewers. We're a little short on skill, people there are more experienced, strong. If we don't turn on our emotions, it's very difficult for us to play.