GAME Belgorod: STEP INTO “SPACE”
The Russian Championship in the Parimatch Super League for Gazprom-Yugra starts in Belgorod. Note, that the last championship for our team also began in Belgorod - then we lost 0:3, and they led for a long time and a lot in the third game, but did not maintain their advantage and lost 26:28. To restore peace of mind, I suggest you remember the first match of the championship 2012-2013 years, when the Surgut team beat the newly crowned Olympic champions in Belgorod with Georg Groser to boot - 3:0. Then - mysticism! – the score was also recorded 28:26, and in the last two sets.
But we, of course, much more interesting then, what will happen in "Cosmos" this Saturday. And Gazprom-Yugra, and Belogorye have radically updated their rosters this season. curious, that only three Surgut residents took part in last year’s match, remaining on the team - Artem Khabibullin, Artem Dovgan and Leonid Shchadilov. But in the Belogorye squad there is only one such player - Alexander Gutsalyuk, except for Pavel Tetyukhin, who appeared on set in only one episode.
This indicates the degree of renovation of rivals. And if the people of Surgut have an update, can say, took place as planned, then the Belgorod residents did not succeed, as intended. In particular, setter Konstantin Poroshin suddenly moved to Zenit St. Petersburg, and they were looking for a replacement for him until the last moment. Found in Kuzbass, where Alexander Voropaev moved from Yaroslavich and transited through Siberia to rent to Belogorya. Alexander had minimal time to establish connections with partners, so don't be surprised, if Azizbek Ismailov appears on the site, played in this position throughout the preseason and the preliminary part of the Russian Cup.
The current composition of Belgorod residents can safely be called experimental. Here is the honored and titled Alexander Gutsalyuk, and, as they say, strong middle peasant Sergei Chervyakov, and the second diagonal of the Serbian national team Drazen Luburic, and promising young Bulgarian Rosalin Penchev, and a whole flock of our own talented youth with the same Pavel Tetyukhin at the head. Let's not forget about the well-known Anton Semyshev, as well as Artem Zelenkov, who began preparations for the season in Surgut, but then moved to Belgorod.
Among other things, Belogorye has changed its coaching staff - Alexander Kosarev has returned to the place of European champion Slobodan Kovac. What to expect from a team with so many changes?, don't know, perhaps, до конца и сами белгородцы. Rare case, когда обновленный на 80 процентов «Газпром-Югра» с ни разу не сыгравшим еще Мацеем Музаем выглядит более цельным коллективом.
Generally, в предстоящем матче – тройная интрига: собственно старт чемпионата, уже в силу этого фактора несущий в себе большой заряд непредсказуемости, а также две команды-загадки, каждая из которых попытается раскрыться наилучшим образом. В этом смысле волейболисты обеих команд в субботнем матче – сродни космонавтам, выходящим навстречу неизвестности в старый добрый открытый «Космос».
