Native walls will help?

Gazprom-Ugra will play its last home match of the regular season tomorrow, 13 Martha, with another top club - Novosibirsk Lokomotiv. With Dynamo in Moscow, what is called, it almost happened. Will we be able to defeat the railway workers at home??

The statistics of games with Novosibirsk are somewhat more pleasant, than with Dynamo, But all successes have already a fairly serious statute of limitations. In recent years, we have been able to force the opponent to fight at times., but before victories there is always something missing. Which is understandable: Lokomotiv is one of the leaders of Russian volleyball, rarely misses medals. And let there be only one championship, and even that was obtained during the shortened Covid season - try it, as they say, repeat!

It is generally accepted, that Loko has the best pair of central blockers in the country - Ilyas Kurkaev and Dmitry Lyzik. In terms of blocks, they are currently 10th and 11th in the Super League, but the main threat lies in attacking actions. Konstantin Abaev is very comfortable having such an option in the center of the grid, from under which you can effectively use the edges of the mesh and connect the pipe.

But right from the edge, in the fourth zone, Lokomotiv has the main headache of this season. Having a wide choice, Plamen Konstantinov can’t rely on anything reliable there: Sergey Savin, Omar Kurbanov and two Bulgarian legionnaires - Martin Atanasov and Denis Karyagin - can rock, go ahead and swim. However, this does not greatly prevent the Novosibirsk team from churning out victories and going to the top of the standings, because finding the right combination of finishers for a specific match, usually, succeeds – if not in the starting version, then with the help of substitutions during the match.

A young and bright student of his own, Ilya Kazachenkov, plays in the diagonal for the railway workers., who is insured by the experienced Pavel Kruglov. The libero pair is Roman Martynyuk and Sergei Melkozerov. Plamen Konstantinov's team is, if not superstar, then very qualified, where each player makes a unique contribution to the big picture.

Beating Loko is a task with an asterisk, but Gazprom-Yugra decided not so, we need this victory and we will try to get it. One of the obvious advantages of Surgut residents is playing at home, where fans become virtually the seventh player on the court. Tomorrow is a working day, so supporting your favorite team requires a little more effort. But the more significant this support will be and the more grateful the team on the site will become. Come, income, let's help our team take a step into the playoffs!