"Zenith" (St. Petersburg): Kovalev - Nikkel, Gossip - Voronkov, Yakutin - Kosmin, Grebennikov "Gazprom-Ugra": Kirillov - Alekseev, Makarenko - Katich, Piun - Kurbatov, Nagaets / Kabeshov In a match with St. Petersburg "Zenith" Rafael Khabibullin tried as the main setter 19-year-old Maxim Kirillov. Well, if this is a story about "how the steel was tempered", then the crucible for the young player turned out to be noble. It is forbidden Read more »

The fourteenth round turned out to be "torn", and making its announcement does not make much sense - half of the matches have already ended. Therefore, let's focus on the Gazprom-Ugra game in St. Petersburg - do we have a chance of success? Viktor Poletaev and Ivan Yakovlev left Zenit due to injuries, back problems returned to Egor Klyuka, whose participation in the match under Read more »

"Gazprom-Ugra": Ozhiganov - Alekseev, Piun - Kurbatov, Makarenko - Katich, Nagaets/Kabeshov "Dynamo-LO": Jovovich – Pirainen, Kayumov - Safonov, Biryukov - Ivovich, Vishnevetsky Surgut residents suffered an insult, but well deserved defeat. Nikita Alekseev and Dmitry Makarenko have not fully recovered from their illness, which ultimately affected the outcome. And Dynamo-LO played just great in the second half of the match, Read more »

On Wednesday we are waiting for the rescheduled match of the 15th round, at the "Premier Arena" "Gazprom-Yugra" to fight with "Dynamo-LO". Postponement of the match 4 January due to several factors. At first, the presence of a "window" in the championship calendar, scheduled for the Final Four of the Cup of Russia. Surgutians, no sosnovobortsy play in the final, therefore, it was decided to avoid downtime and unload the New Year's schedule. If not Read more »

"Gazprom-Ugra": Ozhiganov - Shakhbanmirzaev, Piun - Ionov, Katich - Botin, Nagaets/Vlaskov "Zenith-Kazan": Christenson - Mikhailov, Volkov - Shcherbynin, Deru - Surmachevsky, Golubev This time, Alexei Verbov decided to give Dmitry Volkov a rest, and the Surgutians have a whole clip of players and even coaches left out of the game for medical reasons. Rajab Shakhbanmirzaev replaced Nikita Alekseev diagonally, instead Read more »

The game with Zenit-Kazan is one of the most serious tests in the PARI Super League, if not the most serious. For some time after the end of the era of Leon in Kazan, they groped for ways to compensate, missing out on titles even with Erwin Ngapeth, but now, it seems, found a new path to greatness. He relies on the triangle, only in a slightly different interpretation. If earlier this Read more »

Paradoxes of transfers - the thirteenth round has not started yet, and right now the match of the fourteenth round begins, in which "Locom" takes "Yenisei". This game, apparently, will have to miss and return to events, starting on Friday. This is the last tour before the break, related to the Final Four of the Cup of Russia, and penultimate in the past year. Kemerovo residents shouldn't have problems Read more »

«Lokomotiv»: Abayev - Luburic, Kurkaev - Lyzik, Berezhko - Kurbanov, Martynyuk/Krivitchenko Gazprom-Yugra: Ozhiganov - Alekseev, Piun - Ionov, Makarenko - Katich, Nagaets / Dyachkov "Gazprom-Yugra" almost ruined the 300th match at the helm of Lokomotiv for Plamen Konstantinov, having arranged a hot battle in Novosibirsk. At first, as they say, nothing foretold: in the first game, the hosts at the expense of Abaev's aces (2:0), Luburica (7:3), Read more »

There are few chances for Gazprom-Ugra to win in the match with Lokomotiv, but they have. There would be more, play at home. In Novosibirsk, you need to have a clear superiority, to convince the local aura of the validity of the claims. Lokomotiv likes to play at home, can play at home, can win here. Even with the infirmary full. At the moment, the opponent is a little strange: face Read more »