PLAY OFF DEFENDER DAY
On the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland, Gazprom-Ugra is waiting for, perhaps, defining match of the entire championship. In case of victory over Dynamo-LO, we retain real chances of getting into the playoffs, despite the hardest remaining calendar, where to get at least one victory will be akin to a feat (we are waiting for the game against two "Zenith", and away fights in Novy Urengoy and Moscow). If we lose, then with a high degree of probability the Ural will overtake us, and the same “Dynamo-LO”, and, perhaps, “Nova” - such is the density of the fight.
Match at the Academy. Platonov will not just be difficult, and very difficult - but, at least, we can and should count on ultimate success. Dynamo are on the move now - in the last two away matches they beat those, to whom we recently lost - “Ural” and “Yenisei”. The scenarios of these fights were similar - volleyball players from Sosnovy Bor ran ahead 2:0, then they allowed us to equalize the score and snatched victory in a tiebreaker.
This says three things at once. At first, "Dynamo-LO" goes into matches with utmost concentration, trying to immediately create the necessary groundwork. So rock with them, as it was with Gazprom-Yugra in Yaroslavl, extremely dangerous. Secondly, Dynamo do not have an inexhaustible resource, they are quite susceptible to downturns in the game and can succumb to counter pressure. G, finally, thirdly, they learned how to play tiebreakers. This year they lost four of them - and, apparently, made appropriate conclusions. We also have four lost tiebreakers to our credit., but at the same time there is only one victory in the fifth set against the opponent’s three.
The main characters in Dynamo-LO – this is taking full advantage of the disqualification Pavlo Moroz diagonal But Volzhanin has gathered a very combat squad this season, finishers Denis Biryukov and Maxim Purin, central blockers Leonid Kuznetsov and Sergey Rokhin, ousted a legionnaire from the starting line-up Svetoslava Gotseva. Both binders - Denis Petrov and Igor Tisevich – can equally appear on the site. The second echelon of the team is also good: besides Gotseva here and experienced Denis Shipotko from Maxim Shpilev, and young Artem Melnikov and Dmitry Yakovlev. Libero pair – qualified Evgeniy Galatov and Vladimir Shishkin.
curious, what's wrong Denis Biryukov We have already crossed paths twice on the court in this championship - first in the first round match against Nova, and then in the game with Dynamo-LO in Surgut, where Denis had managed to move by that time. By that time he was already playing in our team Jordan Bissett, coming out with Biryukov as part of Nova against Gazprom-Yugra...
It remains to be reminded, that the first round match in Surgut ended in a dry victory for the Surgut team. However, let's forget about it right away, because now it all starts with 0:0.
