SECOND DAY: KAMBEK "UNIVERA", THE POWER OF ZENITH, EXPERIMENTS OF SURGUT
The first match of the second day called, perhaps, the greatest interest - after all, the silver medalist of the last championship and the two-time winner of the Russian Cup met. Petersburgers, playing (unlike Novosibirsk) at full strength, won - in the fight, but in three parts. Georg Groser woke up at Zenit, showing 58 percent effectiveness in the attack and built four blocks, his counterpart Bakun was also quite good, but lost a little - and in points scored, and as a percentage. Like this, a little, all the railway workers gave in, which is what resulted in the final result.
The real intrigue was again presented by the Barnaul “University”. Losing the first two sets to Samotlor, The Altai people bit the bit and did not just return to the fight, but also snatched victory in a tiebreaker - 15:13. Noteworthy is the even number of points scored by Univer’s starting six players., and their noticeable advantage on the block, which brought the final success.
The program of the day was completed by Gazprom-Yugra and Tyumen. The Surgut team is experimenting with the lineup – almost a different starting six took to the court, with Bagray, Glivenko, Ivanov, Malyshev and Troinin instead of Habibullin, Chefranova, Ursova, Dovganya and Shchadylova, who started yesterday's match with Samotlor. After spending some time mastering your home space, the hosts took the first set, 26:24, and then no longer experienced problems - 25:20, 25:15.
Thus, after two days ahead of Gazprom-Yugra, Zenit is a point behind – these rivals will decide among themselves in tomorrow's match, who will remain the leader. Come to "Prime-Arena", it will be interesting!
Head coach of VC Tyumen Sergey Shulga: The first game was played well, and then fell apart. It happens, when you are leading the score for the entire game, and in the end you give in. It's hard to get back together. In general, it’s still difficult for us to play, team in the process of recruiting, we still need to find three more people. Looking for, We're trying to fix the game somehow., we bypass the topic with resources, which are currently available. I'm not so upset about the result, like a game, I would like to see better volleyball.
Senior trainer of VC Gazprom-Yugra Alexey Babeshin: I want everything at once, but that doesn't happen. I am satisfied with the quality of the game only in the third game, in the first two - absolutely dissatisfied. The game plan didn't work out today, which Volodya and I (coach Vladimir Kondusov - head coach.) we are trying to record the players on the cerebral cortex. We will continue to work, preparing for the start of the national championship.
Final player of VC Gazprom-Yugra Vladimir Ivanov: Our team is half renewed, Now we're playing around - a new team, new interactions. Something's not working out, but all the guys are trying. There is, so to speak, what to strive for. Two games passed without any problems from the opponents, but we had our problems, personal mistakes, which we need to get rid of.
