First tie-break win
Gazprom-Yugra scored its first two-point victory, and Neftyanik lost for the second time in a row in a tie-break with the score 13:15. It all started quite academically - the teams slowly rolled into the game: the people of Surgut attacked better, the guests made up for it with aces. Nikitin's attack out-of-bounds on Lukyanenko's single block and Botin's subsequent mistake on the pipe marked the hosts' first significant advantage - Read more »