The match turned out to be as strange as possible. "Dinamo-LO", finishing ninth, lost tournament motivation and put up libero Artem Barabash and young Nikita Lapin as a pair of finishers (2006 points were obtained by the birthday boy Kirillov -). His replacement Nikita Borchikov came out to pass instead of Tyushkevich.. All these disturbances actually equalized the “weight” of the playing teams, although our Korotaev-Skvortsov pair should have dominated.

The Surgut team rotated their players at the start, releasing Skvortsov instead of Korotaev, and “Nova” involved youth team setter Nikita Shaldybin in the case. The rest of the composition of the Novokuibyshevites spoke of, that they are going to fight for victory - sheer power and experience.

"Miners" (Soligorsk): Wrestling - Avdochenko, Kozitsyn – Safonov, Rich - Masko, Zaborovsky/Kovalev "Gazprom-Yugra" (Surgut): Kirillov – Rudnev, Shevlyakov – Kurbatov, Korotaev - Slobodyanuk, Nagaets Surgut residents arrived in Minsk in an even “lighter” composition, than we were two weeks ago in Sosnovy Bor, without Alexey Rodichev. In his absence, Maxim Kirillov took over the captain's powers.. IN Read more »

This coming weekend, Gazprom-Yugra will end the season with three matches in Minsk, we will play against Shakhtar again, "Novaya" and "Dynamo-LO". These games have virtually no effect on anything anymore: theoretically we can still bypass Nova, but the difference between 11th place and 12th cannot be called fundamental. Therefore, the Surgut team will continue, what did you do in the first round of the micro-tournament for 9-12 Read more »

There has been a curious change in the composition of the Surgut residents: captain Alexey Rodichev, who had previously played exclusively on the back line, played the game as a receiving libero this time, on his serve he was replaced by young Alexander Evseev, whose role, generally, also a finisher. And Nikita Nagaets was warming up in the uniform of a field player, but never showed up on the set.

Oleg Sogrin has noticeably refreshed Nova's lineup compared to the first game against the home team, and we don’t have much to change, We're already playing in experimental mode. Nevertheless, Gazprom-Yugra managed to break the series of defeats from Volga in the championship. It turns out, we are on the right path, albeit with obstacles.