The game with the Association
On Wednesday, the "Gazprom-Ugra" will play on the platform with the Nizhny Novgorod ASK (Association of sports clubs). In the current "regular season" we have only nine home games - and each, Consequently, its weight in gold. especially those, in which we simply can not, and must score points.
Such is the "gold" game is obtained is not the easiest opponent. ASC's penultimate place is an indicator, sorry for the tautology, not indicative. The club played the first matches of the championship without declared foreign players, since the European Volleyball Confederation suspected a connection between ASC and its Nizhny Novgorod predecessors, "Province" and "Nizhny Novgorod", died in bankruptcy with numerous debts to the players.
Science doesn't know for sure, what they did in Nizhny Novgorod, to convince the ECV, but in fact, now both legionnaires - Latvian setter Denis Petrovs and French diagonal John Wendt - are in service. However, and without them the team looked pretty good, from match to match, getting on the nerves of the favorites.
If we play with ASK in the association, then our rival in three words, then this is experience, reliability, Igor Shulepov. The team consists of mostly experienced volleyball players, have seen everything in volleyball. Separately in this regard, we note the team captain, 39-year-old Viktor Nikonenko, which flew out of the Super League along with Nizhny Novgorod, so I returned to it - already with ASK. Commendable dedication to the club, which also brings considerable benefits on the site.
Reliability is a consequence of experience. Understanding, that every episode is important, that this is the only way to play on equal terms in the Super League. Igor Shulepov, who passed through two major leagues in three years as a head coach - a figure, significant for Surgut in its own way. Igor spent four seasons with Gazprom-Yugra, two of them were the captain of our team. And now, it seems, he quite successfully transfers his vast experience as a player to his work as a coach. Command in it, anyway, turned out to be manageable and effective.
Continuing personal analysis, Let's name the current team leader - Alexander Markin. He became one of the characters in the “Dynamo exodus”, when most of the players left the capital club, personified Dynamo in recent years. Markin quickly settled into his new position and became a core player.: he is now ninth in scoring in the Super League. His partner in the final game is most often Alexander Pyatyrkin, another experienced fighter, better known in the major league "A". what, however, does not prevent him from successfully gaining points in the Super League. Alexander Sadakov is Nikonenko’s partner in the center of the net, the same characteristics can be attributed to it, as for Pyatyrkin: not "star", but quite a reliable and experienced player, capable of causing a lot of trouble.
Denis Petrovs is well known in the Super League, - and again, describing his game, we have to resort to this term, like "reliability". What can't be said about the diagonal John Wendt, who in 2015 played for one of the French national teams at the European Games in Baku. Wendt is unstable, and his failure, in particular, did not allow ASK to compete on equal terms with Ugra-Samotlor in the last round. And for this, it seemed, everyone was there: and first victory, won the day before over Novaya, and home court, and general mood.
Now ASK will bring this attitude to Surgut - I’m sure, that the people of Nizhny Novgorod will not fight with the despair of the doomed, this has not been noticed about them at all, and with a cold-blooded desire to win. To beat them, It will not be enough for Gazprom-Yugra to present one or two trump cards - it is necessary to demonstrate a well-coordinated and, in some cases, even inspired team play. At least not to give in to that same reliability, and we should have enough purely gaming capabilities.
