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23 February Gazprom-Yugra hosts Ugra-Samotlor at the Premier Arena. Meetings between neighbors are usually called Ugra derby, and a derby is when principled rivals fight to the bone, regardless of the tournament position and other situations. That's pretty much how it will be. Last place in the standings in this case means literally nothing, “Samotlor” is not the Minsk “Builder” of last season. Read more »

The Surgut team took full revenge for their defeat in the first round, although the game, despite the "dry" score, it wasn't easy. It all started with two strikes from Kurbatov and Radjab into touch. The situation was quickly corrected: Rajab starred, Tkachev hit the rope, 2:2. Our diagonal serve caught the passing ball., implemented by Rodichev - 4:3, first break. The second break was taken with a block by Spodobets, who had recovered from an injury., 9:7, Pavel Borsch immediately reacts with a time-out.

The time for decisive battles for the playoffs is coming for Gazprom-Yugra. Sure, the championship is still far from over, but right now, in matches with direct competitors, there will be a so-called battle for six points. The first such match is in Orenburg with Neftyanik on Monday, 19 February. State, in which our team will take to the court, difficult to predict. Last game with Shakhtar Read more »

After a recent game in Surgut, the Enisey coach complained, that the team’s batteries were “dead”. Now, seem to be, It's the turn of Surgut residents to recharge: the cheerful beginning of the game slipped to a joyless ending.

Last season, seven wins were enough for us, to get into the playoffs. Nowadays everything is much more complicated and interesting.: we, “Ural” and “Nova” have won eight matches each and the whole struggle for the coveted place in the sun lies ahead. Our next opponent is a very difficult one (and others are in the Super League?) – Shakhtar Soligorsk. Belarusians seven times in a row Read more »

Swing game, where a lot was decided by the first set - the only one, passed in a close fight on the court and on the scoreboard. However, the initiative in the opening was predominantly on the side of the hosts: Kirillov issues a single block to Dmitriev (5:3), Murashko from the fourth zone does not place the ball on the line (8:5), Kurbatov draws up the first, but not the last ace for the game (10:7).

After a series of victories from three matches, the Surgutians are waiting for home, perhaps, the most difficult of the current opponents. The winning streak of Krasnoyarsk “Enisey” in the last round increased to five games, Moreover, they beat “familiar faces” from ASC, "Kuzbass", "Ural", as well as Fakel and Shakhtar. The main character in “Yenisei” is the diagonal Roman Murashko, top scorer and aceman of the Super League, contributing Read more »

In the first set, Gazprom-Yugra took the lead quite confidently, despite the abundance of defective servings. Our guys took risks and made six mistakes in the first half of the game, but thanks to the efforts on the grid, where can we distinguish Korotaev’s attacks from the four, maintained control. A block on Kovacevic in a long rally led to the score 13:10 and replacing Ushkov with Butko. Kovacevic redeemed himself with an excellent serve and a completed finish from the back line., 13:12.

Tomorrow Gazprom-Yugra will meet Ural in Ufa. Our opponent is no longer the same, whom we beat in the first round. The names are the same, the performance has changed. After the castling of Andrei Voronkov to Igor Shulepov on the coaching bridge, the team started playing that volleyball, which everyone expected from her. After all, by those very names “Ural” – very, very strong team. Read more »