"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 »
«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 »
NOVA: Lukyanenko - Litvinov, Lyamin - Bloodless, Zhukov - Shpilev, Eremin. Gazprom-Yugra: Ozhiganov - Alekseev, Piun - Kurbatov, Makarenko - Katich, Nagaets/Dyakov. It's very hard to win a match, if there are obvious "holes" in the site, no heroic efforts of individual players will be enough. With all due respect to Nova, we gave the game ourselves. Let's start with the first set, in which they Read more »
The away game against Novaya is one of the key ones for Gazprom-Ugra. Looking at the league table, everything seems to be obvious: we are eighth, "Nova" with zero in the column of victories on the penultimate, fifteenth place. But numbers are numbers, but in essence we are waiting for a meeting with a very difficult and incredibly motivated opponent to win. The key to this meeting is Read more »
Gazprom: Ozhiganov - Alekseev, Piun - Kurbatov, Makarenko - Katich, Dyakov/Nagaets Yenisei: Osipov - Yakovlev, Maximov - Brazhnyuk, Dmitriev - Skrimov, Yanutov The teams gave out bright in drama, thrilling match, a real battle of Siberian characters. The Surgut team prepared a surprise - a debutant appeared in the starting lineup and played the entire match, central blocker Dmitry Kurbatov (212 cm). That's why Read more »
A trip to Krasnoyarsk for Gazprom-Ugra is a step into the unknown. That is, of course, understandably, with whom to play, but what exactly to expect on the site? Including from themselves. Let's start with ourselves. The game with Ural showed, what: Nikita Alekseev is fine; Double replacement is quite a working tool. Makes opponent's blockers twitch, Yes and Read more »
"Builder": Tomashevsky - Kuleshov, Korotaev - Konovalov, Fedorov - Minenkov, Ratutsky "Gazprom-Yugra": Ozhiganov - Alekseev, Makarenko - Katich, Piun - Ionov, Kabeshov/Nagayets "Gazprom-Yugra" is very cold-blooded, on experience, beat the young and explosive Stroitel in Minsk. The start of the match was even: Nikita Kuleshov and Ivan Korotaev took their toll on offense, we responded with patience, block, discounts and bonuses from Read more »
On Sunday, Gazprom-Ugra will make a walking tour, it would seem that, voyage to Minsk, to the rookie and outsider of the Superleague "Stroitel". Refraining from the beaten "there are no weak opponents in the Super League", nevertheless, I note - there will definitely not be an easy walk. Minskers got into the league, even without being the first team of Belarus - in last year's championship, Stroitel lost in the final to Soligorsk Shakhtar. G Read more »
