New Year we start with Zenit
First match in the new, 2019-m year, Gazprom-Ugra will play at its home Premier Arena against the silver medalist of the last national championship, St. Petersburg "Zenith". Team, who is not even two years old, was immediately created for victories - its slogan “Born to Champions” speaks about this, and instant entry into the Super League, and immediately won second place.
clear, that the composition of St. Petersburg residents is replete with surnames recognizable in the volleyball world - here and the German diagonal Georg Grozer, and a Cuban with a Russian passport Halo Camejo, and Olympic champion Alexander Volkov, and experienced Evgeniy Sivozhelez from Andrey Ashchev, another foreigner of Russian citizenship, Lukash Divish, yesterday's resident of Surgut Alexey Safonov... We can talk separately and at length about Zenit’s setters – and Pavel Pankoin and Sergey Antypkin are among the candidates for the Russian national team, both played for Gazprom-Yugra at different times.
Regarding Zenit’s performance in the current championship, then it is still ambiguous. Claiming the championship, the team managed to lose to almost all of its main competitors - and Zenit Kazan, and "Kuzbass", and "Torch", and "Locomotive". Nevertheless, with seven victories, the St. Petersburg team is not far from the leading group, in sixth place, one victory behind fourth-placed Belogorye. which they, of course, will try to get it in Surgut.
However, Gazprom-Yugra already has winning experience in games with Zenit - in the last championship on our site we beat our opponent by a score 3:2. There are also chances this season, we will fight. 29 December, in the previous round, Zenit almost missed winning the St. Petersburg derby with Dynamo-LO, defeating their fellow countrymen only in a tiebreaker. the same Egor Feoktistov, closer to the end, failed in this element, as we all remember, defeated Dynamo-LO a week before with a score 3:0.
However, Such layouts do not make much sense - it is much more important to correctly analyze the opponent and set up the game. What tactics our coaching staff will develop is a matter for the internal team kitchen, we'll celebrate, that Zenit is betting on two powerful players - Grozer and Camejo. Groser is generally the best striker in the Super League in terms of points scored, and also the best server. obviously, that the statistics of Georg and Halo could be decisive, therefore, we will have to work separately on reducing their attack performance. Alternatively, load Camejo in reception, Groser attacks more successfully on fast balls - hence it is even more worth loading Camejo in the technique. This is all pretty obvious, but in practice, as they say, possible options.
To see with your own eyes, what options are possible on the site, income 4 January at the Premier Arena. While we were celebrating the New Year, volleyball players were intensively preparing for the upcoming game - let's support them in the upcoming difficult match!
