WAITING FOR THE DERBY
On the first day of December, the first part of the Ugra derby awaits us - that, what will happen in Nizhnevartovsk. Beyond symbolic status, the match between Gazprom-Yugra and Yugra-Samotlor has a very specific applied value. In case of victory, the hosts will break away from Surgut by two victories and strengthen their standings, if the guests win, then they will be able to beat their neighbors due to more points. The fact that, that the senior coach of Gazprom-Yugra Yuriy Melnychuk For many years he worked as the head coach of Ugra-Samotlor..
Volleyball played by our team becomes more meaningful and harmonious with each round., and with the advent Jordana Bissetta you can feel the increase in power. maybe, it was Bisset who was not enough for Nova, to win in Nizhnevartovsk two rounds earlier. Anyway, Jordan will still appear in the International Meetings Hall - only as part of Gazprom-Yugra. Our team won its first victory in the championship a week ago and threw off certain psychological shackles - one must assume, This doesn’t make the desire to win in Nizhnevartovsk any less.
As for Samotlor, then this team, returned to the Super League thanks to a refusal to be promoted to the Lokomotiv-Izumrud class, managed to win two tiebreakers on the home court - against Ural and the already mentioned Nova. The news about, that this season there will be no need to play in the major league “A”, took the Nizhnevartovsk coaching staff by surprise, therefore, experienced players were recruited right at the start of the championship - this is how the team appeared Alexander Krivets, Dmitry Leontiev, Vladimir Yakimov, who played for Samotlor for part of the last season returned Evgeny Bannov. The weather along with them in the current “Samotlor” is made by binders Yuri Sinitsa and Igor Kovalikov, finisher Maxim Novgorodov, center blocker Vladimir Chivel, Let's also mention someone we know well Alexandra Platonova.
But the “trick” of this team is, that almost any player can enter the game, what is called, "from the bench", and become the hero of the day. This is about Kirill Kostylenko, and about Yuri Tsepkov, and about others. With Samotlor, especially in Nizhnevartovsk, you can’t relax even for a minute - your opponent will fight to the last, cling to every chance - especially, if he gets these chances. There is no doubt, that we are waiting for a match in the format of a real derby.
