THREE SMALL WARS
Gazprom-Ugra lost in three equal endings, respectively, and in the match as a whole. This is just the case, when one or two episodes could turn the game in the other direction, but this did not happen - the Surgut people did not have enough. Mainly, failed to avoid his own marriage.
At the beginning of the match, Chefranov and Bisset scored two aces with balls like a blueprint, falling from the rope to the opponent's side. Plus the touch of blockers during Bisset’s attack found by video review, plus block Titichu – 8:4 in favor of Gazprom-Yugra. However, almost immediately, on Titich's serve, the guests not only equalized the score, but also came forward - 10:11. The lion's share of Ural's innings goes to Bisset, and the Cuban does not always provide high-quality reception. Chefranov takes the floor: scores and scores two aces in a row - 16:14. A response series of gliders from Kovalev follows - Bisset again stalls in reception, and Ace Kovalev mines at Ursov, 18:20. Surgutyans, Nevertheless, again level the situation with a long play of the break ball and the opponents end up on equal terms, 20:20, 22:22, 23:23... At the decisive moment, Chefranov and Bisset fail to handle the serve, and when the score 24:25 Filippov waited for the attack through Krsmanovich and blocked his opponent with a block.
In the second set, Chefranov, who played the opening of the match qualitatively, begins to make mistakes out of the blue - his attacks into touch and block give Ural an advantage., 3:5. Dovgan catches Kovalev's discount, 5:5, but now on one block Bisset sends the ball into touch - 6:8. Instead of Jordan, Shchadilov comes onto the court and starts well - he scores the allotted ball after, how the team fought off Ural attacks from all zones in turn, 9:9. Kovalev, meanwhile, reveals Feoktistov’s potential in the fourth zone, The hosts have a good attacking Dovgan, and Chefranov again does not fit into the platform, 13:13.
The hosts managed to take the lead at the 18:17 – Chefranov is rehabilitated with an excellent serve, and Feoktistov hits the net from the middle of the court. The Surgut team had chances to increase their lead, but Troinin, who came out to strengthen the block, left the team without a link, and on high balls neither Shchadilov, neither Chefranov achieved results - unlike Miskevich. And Filippov’s ace – Shchadilov couldn’t cope with the glider – brought the score to dangerous levels 18:20. Bisset reappears on the court and immediately tears off the hands of the blocker., but the confident actions of Feoktistov in the attack and Abrosimov on the block preserve Ural’s strategic superiority in the end, 20:23. And then a set point is just around the corner. However, Ursov came out to serve and became the hero of the ending: three of his sharp serves led to an ace, Dovgan’s pre-game discount and Titich’s attack on a difficult ball into space - Andrey laid such a high trajectory, that I did not find the desired connection with the block - 24:24. Another knocked out technique, the hosts have another chance - but Makarov did not fully calculate the situation and sent the ball to Chefranov, forced to attack from a place - into a block. Titich corrects himself by attacking the line, and in the decisive play, Makarov again tries to surprise the opponent with an attack through Krsmanovic - he is softened by a block and the ball is returned with a discount, 25:27.
In the third game, the coaching staff of Gazprom-Yugra started a reshuffle - Bisset took the diagonal, Chefranov appeared in the center of the net, to give way to Dovgan after serving, and a couple of finishers were Ursov and Shchadilov. Abrosimov immediately marked the advantage of Ural with his ace, 3:5. On Kovalev’s serves, the gap increased to four points – 4:8. Shchadilov is replaced by Ivanov, but the score continues to grow in favor of the guests – 7:12 after another successful attack by Feoktistov.
The hosts, however, They didn’t give up and pulled themselves towards their opponent with a strong-willed jerk. Ursov scores, he knocks Feoktistov out of the move - Ivanov converts the passing ball, 14:16. Dovgan catches Filippov one on one, 15:16. Filippov immediately takes revenge, and Ivanov twists two difficult balls in his style - 17:18. Makarov catches Kovalev's discount through experience, 18:18 - the game is moving into a completely equal direction, where it's all about the little things and luck. Miskevich played the end flawlessly as part of Ural, scored literally everything. Nevertheless, the hosts were the first to score a set point (24:23) through Bisset's efforts, they didn’t convert another one – and then the Cuban didn’t get into tempo with Makarov and Abrosimov gave the guests an advantage on the balance sheet, 25:26. Two errors on the serve of Feoktistov and Abrosimov leave chances for Gazprom-Yugra, and Titichu’s block from Makarov again pulls Fortune to the side of Surgut - 29:28. Miskevich is being removed, Ursov hits out - 29:30. In the next play, the block covers Bisset and the Ufa residents are already starting to celebrate, but the insurance saves the ball and the same Bisset scores a point through touching the block, 30:30. Feoktistov throws it with both hands - into a block, 31:31. Shchadilov returning to the court scores a difficult goal, 32:32. But his next two attacks decide the outcome of the match in favor of Ural – block and out, 32:34.
Both opponents, despite the score 0:3, were worthy of victory. Only Ural played more collectedly and cleanly, allowing less of your own marriage, which decided the outcome of the fight at the end of each set.
6 February, Surgut. Gazprom-Yugra - Ural. 0:3 (24:26, 25:27, 32:34) (match stats)
Head coach of VC "Ural" Konstantin Sidenko:
– In Surgut, few people manage to come and win 3:0. We did it, although you saw it yourself, what were these three parties?, everything is more or less. Won through character, through discipline, confident play: withstood the reception, Only in the first game two or three aces were thrown out, plus Bissetou line was opened, but then we figured it out. Otherwise there was solid team play. Teams are equal, we are next to each other in the standings, but the ball is round, unpredictable - somewhere one team fell into a hole, other, vice versa, on the rise.
Captain of VC "Ural" Andrey Titich:
– We won maybe because, that Surgut did not expect such agility from us. We are now playing with swings - we can beat Belgorod, and then lose at home to Nova. Can, they were out of tune somewhere, although we should have - we are neighbors and the game was for six points. Now they need to catch up, and we should move on, don't lose it, what they made.
We won, because they played better. On the pitch, I think, we had fewer errors, usually there are a large number of them. They played more clearly at the reception, although at first the opponent served well. We have a lot of childish mistakes in every game., that prevent us from playing. Today, Feels, there was less of this and this too is in our piggy bank.
Senior coach of Gazprom-Ugra Yuri Melnichuk:
– This is a disappointing defeat - all games lost on balance, two points. Something went wrong somewhere, there was a lack of skill somewhere, somewhere there was no composure. There was more of a war of nerves, Today two equal teams met, but luck turned more towards the Ufa team. Everything was decided in the little things - somewhere in the end the ball was unsuccessfully added, inconvenient for attackers, the attackers made the wrong decisions, the binder made a mistake somewhere. It's these little things that make up the game.. Nothing is lost in the fight for the playoffs yet, eight matches ahead, we will fight.
