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 »

The residents of Surgut were within arm's reach of repeating the scenario of the first round. Recall, that then “Fakel” managed to make a comeback with 0:2, this time the owners failed to escape.

On Sunday Gazprom-Yugra will play at the Premier Arena with Novy Urengoy Fakel. Now it is impossible to divide matches into key and not so important ones., each one holds the key to the playoffs for our team. In the first round we lost in Novy Urengoy 2:3, still without Alexey Rodichev, and Sergei Grankin and Vladislav Babkevich were absent from Fakel. Babkevich we never Read more »

The Surgut team failed the start of the match on Denis Schenkel’s gliders – 0:4, but returned on the serve of Vadim Ozhiganov, 5:5. Until the mark 10:10 it was an equal game, after which the hosts again scored four points in a row. Rajab could not beat the block on Ozhiganov’s passes, who gave way to Maxim Kirillov. But it was not possible to catch up with the opponent, the Dynamo block has become an insurmountable wall. Even two freeballs, mined from Rajab's feeds, failed to implement, as a result - 17:25.