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 »

Surgut center blocker Petar Krsmanovich suffered a serious hand injury during training and was out for an indefinite period.. Against this not the most rosy backdrop, the hosts started the match extremely poorly: with three aces from Alexander Markin and an ace from Denis Chereisky, 1:6. But Maxim Kirillov accepted the challenge to the micro-tournament of acemen (two tries straight) and Ivan Korotaev with one ace and a knocked out technique, which Shevlyakov closed, 7:8.

On Saturday at the Premier Arena we play with Kuzbass. Alexey Babeshin’s team is the most interesting: Super League record holder for five-set matches. The team has a total of ten of them, including a six-game series, in which Dynamo and St. Petersburg Zenit were beaten, and also there were two tiebreakers with Kazan and Novosibirsk. In the last round, the Kemerovo team lost to Yenisei on their site. 1:3. Conceded 0:2, Read more »

We stay in the race! I wrote in the preview, that the game will largely determine: Will we be able to stay in the hunt for the playoffs or will we fall into the fight for survival?? clear, that there is still a long way to go, but Gazprom-Yugra retained its chances in Nizhny, returning the favor to ASK for the defeat in the first round.

I think, that the match in Nizhny Novgorod will be a watershed: Will Gazprom-Yugra continue to cling to the playoffs or will it fall into the fight for survival?. In other words, the match is important, but I really wouldn't want to, so that the burden of responsibility weighs down our team. We have one objective difficulty: we don't play from a position of strength, we have no such experience. Cling, Read more »