Derby is never easy

"Gazprom-Ugra" (Surgut): Ozhiganov - Shakhbanmirzaev, Shevlyakov – Kurbatov, Rodichev – Krasikov, Nagaets/Obmochaev

Yugra-Samotlor (Nizhnevartovsk): Bagrey – Radchenko, Kassel – Kulygin, Aksyutin - Militsky, Mellis/Davletshin

at level 6:8 in the first set, visiting captain Nikita Aksyutin, blocking, twisted his ankle and left the court. His place was taken by Anatoly Volodin, and the detachment did not notice the loss of a fighter - the guests played with passion and a lot worked out for them, starting from filing. The hosts also responded with good shots from behind the baseline, but in other elements everything was not so rosy. Kurbatov leaves Surgut residents in business with an ace, 9:11, then comes a series of knockout serves from Rodichev, 14:15. But Radchenko and Militsky don’t seem to notice the block, and fortune favors Bagrey - after his serve, the ball catches the rope and falls into the uninsurable zone, 14:18.

Rudnev comes on as a substitute with a special mission and puts an ace in the first zone, 16:18. A worthy answer from Militsky - a deceptive blow and an ace, 16:20. Militsky and Volodin didn’t figure it out at first, who should take it, and then - who to attack, as a result, the Surgut team again crept into the working distance in the end, 19:21. But Radchenko is filming, and Rodichev gets stuck in the block, 19:23. Shakhbanmirzaev, in turn, turns on the serve, but it's too late, 22:24. After Samotlor's time-out, the diagonal Surgutian is stopped by a block.

In the opening of the second game, the hosts behave like masters on Rajab's serves: Shevlyakov makes a freeball, Rajab draws up an ace, and Rodichev gets back from the block on the second attempt, 5:1. After a series of mutual mistakes, Volodin gives another break point to Gazprom-Yugra with a shot into the net on an emergency ball, 10:5. Nagaets cope with another cannon serve from Radchenko, Rajab thanks the libero with an attack, 11:6.

Nevertheless, the guests impose a tight pursuit: Militsky emerges from a protracted rally with honor, Shevlyakov rests on Kulagin's block, then the same fate overtakes Shakhbanmirzaev (12:10) and instead of Ozhiganov Maxim Kirillov appears on the court. Militsky bears the main load in the attack for Ugra-Samotlor - and quite successfully, but his colleague Volodin hits out, 16:12. Denis Tolok comes on for Bagrey., Radchenko, who went into the shadows in the attack, gets his ace, 17:16. The hosts carefully maintained their minimal advantage until the very end and almost lost it in a protracted rally, which Rajab still solves on the second try, 22:20. And then it burst: Kurbatov covers Kulygin, Kirillov places an ace in the gap between the receivers, 24:20. Militsky is filmed through a pipe, but Rajab is also convincing in the fourth zone, rolling the ball over a block, 25:21.

Most of the third set went with the guests' advantage, and it all started with a mark 9:9. Kirillov lost the quality of his pass and gave way to Ozhiganov, 10:12. Immediately Bagrey, after defending, throws the ball into the empty fifth zone, 10:13. The visiting attack gradually begins to dominate: Volodin adapted, Zemlyanko, who replaced Kulygin, scores, and then the car mode turns on Militsky, scoring from both ends of the net, 19:22. Exchange of service errors in favor of Samotlor, 20:23, Surgut residents have less and less chances to change the course of the game.

Kostrov, who was released for this mission, does not serve, and Rajab realizes a quick finish after that, how Nagaets pulled out Volodin’s attack, 22:23. Rodichev scores a passing ball after Krasikov's clearing serve, 23:23. Another powerful serve flies and Bagray, pulling the outgoing ball from behind the antenna, doesn't do it very cleanly. The judges are silent, the owners are indignant, but a set-ball by Vartov residents. maybe, this episode touched a nerve among the Gazprom-Yugra players, especially Rodichev and Nagayts. The libero in the buckle leaves the ball in play after Radchenko's killer serve, Rodichev is accurate in emergency mode. And another successful attack by Alexey on a triple block after that, how we managed to fight off Radchenko’s attacks twice. The third hero of the ending is Dmitry Kurbatov, who gave the final ace, 26:24.

The final of the third game psychologically broke the guests. Errors started pouring in, Militsky was tired and only Radchenko tried to keep the team afloat. Although he also hit into touch between two attacks in Militsky’s block, 10:7. Valery Pyaskovsky tried to shake up the team by replacing Bagrey with Tolok, but Denis twice made a mistake in his passing technique - you don’t often see this in the Super League, 13:8. Militsky puts in the serve - Rodichev throws the emergency ball. Rajab serves – Rodichev scores a passing ball, 15:9. Kostrov replaces Militsky, but the game rolls towards its logical conclusion due to inertia, Even the marriage of Surgut residents does not “work”: Rodichev takes with one hand from above (!), Radchenko does not use the gift and throws out. May be, Volodin? Auth, 17:10. Rajab takes the serve, flying out of bounds - Kurbatov disassembles on the net, 19:12. The guests are trying to fix something, taking risks and making mistakes on serve, 24:17. Apotheosis on match ball: Kirillov passes to the opponent's side, and they don’t know there, what to do with the ball, 25:17.

Comments after the game:

"Gazprom-Ugra" fought as best he could: It was a good match, the audience had fun on this festive day, no regrets, that you came to volleyball. As for the game - somewhere in the endings there is a lack of quality in the execution of certain elements. Surgut caught up in the end and took advantage of their chance. We played quite loosely, Yes, there were some mistakes, but the game continued, there were some interesting drawn-out pranks, Both teams showed good moments in defense. We had a certain tactic and we stuck to it, but with the loss of Aksyutin, adjustments had to be made. the main thing, so that the player recovers as quickly as possible.

Binder of VK "Yugra-Samotlor" Sergey Bagrey: The first batch is never an indicator. Apparently we were in a more serious mood, your guys took a long time to get into the game, then the game became even. Second... To be honest, I don't remember the second game anymore, I remember, that the third one was so good, fenced. In the fourth game, one episode for some reason broke us so much and it turned out that, what happened. Submission is an indicator, what state is the player in?, and once a series of mistakes began, apparently, fatigue took its toll. Somewhere and psychologically hooked. The loss of Aksyutin did not bring fundamental changes, we have one path. All players are interchangeable, the game drawing does not suffer. Sure, sorry - leader, team captain. But now we’ll quickly heal him and move on.. We are fighting, we are working, don't be discouraged.

Senior coach of VC "Gazprom-Yugra" Denys Harkushenko: Ugra derby is never simple. We are fighting for the playoffs, today the first game was very nervous on our part, and Samotlor always plays at risk. They take risks on the serve, in the first game we won due to this, plus risk on play balls. What do they have, yet again, went well today. Our guys endured, on my nerves, Yes, but they could. In the third game the key moment was, when Nikita Nagaets raised his lethal serve to “minus” in a dead jump, they scored this hard ball and took the set.

Libero of VC Gazprom-Yugra Nikita Nagaets: Now every victory is very important and the result weighed heavily on us. But we were able to cope with our emotions. In the first set, “Samotlor” served well, we, respectively, sagged in reception and gave difficult balls. I would like to mention Gleb Radchenko, who showed a good game today, couldn't cope with it for a long time. But it’s hard to maintain this level throughout the game., then Samotlor started making mistakes somewhere, somewhere we endured and endured and added, on the same serve. This is where the result came from. Now there are no weak teams in the Super League, Samotlor has a very good overall game, their balls don't just fall. Very hard, in fact, play with them. awesome, that won, thank you very much to the fans, this is our seventh player on the court.

Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra) 3: 1 Ugra-Samotlor (Nizhnevartovsk)

match stats

Details

Date	Time	Championship
23.02.2024	19:00	CR 2023-2024

Results

Team	1	2	3	4	GENERAL.
Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)	22	25	26	25	3
Ugra-Samotlor (Nizhnevartovsk)	25	21	24	17	1

Venue

g. Surgut / SC "Premier Arena"

Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)

1	2	3	4	5	S	K	E	FACING	B	PTS
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ugra-Samotlor (Nizhnevartovsk)

1	2	3	4	5	S	K	E	FACING	B	PTS
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0