It's only begining
25.08.2024 / 21:53
Gazprom-Yugra played the first round of the preliminary part of the Russian Cup. Our guys return from Sosnovy Bor with one victory in three matches. We already wrote about the first game with Dynamo-Ural, the next day, the Surgut team lost to the home team from Dynamo-LO in three games - 22:25, 24:26, 14:25.
note, that in this game Alexey Rudakov tried the setter Artem Ivanov and the diagonal Vyacheslav Rudnev. And the best player in the Surgut team was Ivan Skvortsov, showing academic statistics: 16 points, 50% positive reception, 52% efficiency in attack, two blocks, two aces. Unfortunately, partners did not support, and the hosts scored the lion's share of points from diagonal Nazar Litvinenko (14) and a couple of finishers Fedor Voronkov (13) – Hernandez Melgarejo (10). We again lost the block devastatingly (3-11) and lost in a duel with aces (2-6).
On the final day, our guys were able to demonstrate, that progress in the game is inevitable: Zenith is in a similar position. 3:0 was beaten by MSTU (25:22, 29:27, 25:21). There is already a slight advantage on the block (8:6), and the reception is maintained at its best (54% Torch timeout - and Dineikin confidently withdraws in the fourth zone 47%), and the attack did not disappoint (50% on 43%). Yesterday's achievement of Skvortsov in terms of points was repeated by Vitaly Papazov (16), 12 and 11 Artem Masko and Alexander Slobodyanyuk scored points, also stood up well to the reception (48% and 58% respectively, under heavy load).
The center of the grid in the person of two Dmitrievs - Shevlyakov and Kurbatov - began to wake up, although on block all our middle blockers looked rather pale throughout all three matches. Here, as they say, endless work and huge reserves. Otherwise, repeat, the first round is like the first pancake: the team gets involved and plays connections. During all the matches we saw a large rotation of the squad, everyone got practice.
Now the teams are moving together to Surgut, where at the hospitable Premier Arena with 30 August to 1 Second round games will take place in September. And already 4 September, at the same Premier Arena, the start of the Russian Championship awaits us - Gazprom-Yugra will open the tournament with a match against MSTU. The fun is just beginning!
Gazprom-Yugra / Dynamo-Ural
Dinamo-LO / Gazprom-Yugra
Gazprom-Yugra / MSTU (Moscow)
3: 0 
Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)
MSTU (Moscow)
