Technique vs Strength
This coming Sunday, Gazprom-Yugra will play its last away match in the regular part of the championship, next – a series of eight home games. But for now – Ufa, "Dynamo-Ural", who definitely has a grudge against the Surgut team for losing in the first round.
Then Dynamo, Putting at home the St. Petersburg "Zenith", We arrived in Surgut for victory, he says 2:0, had a couple of match points in the third set, but lost the tie-break. clear, that now there will be no underestimation, but no one is stopping Gazprom-Yugra from showing its best fighting qualities.
It’s quite difficult to surprise your opponent and surprise yourself in the 21st round, so let's go over the obvious facts. Ufa residents have a set of highly qualified performers, beyond the starting six. So, the last match in St. Petersburg in the square was played by finisher Kirill Ursov, diagonal Romanas Shkulevicius, middle blocker Egor Yakutin. With Sergei Savin fully recovered, Boris Kolchin now has a full-fledged rotation in the final game, same story diagonally, where Roman Potalyuk restored resources. The center also has a choice of couples for Petar Krsmanovich - or Artem Melnikov, or the same Yakutin. Setter Andrei Ushkov is pressed by Slavi Kostadinov, who transferred from Zenit St. Petersburg. Generally, excellent choice plus a “secret” weapon in the form of Andrei Surmachevsky’s serve, regularly bringing points in approximately every game. Well, Andrey’s overall performance is very impressive, It’s no wonder that Zenit Kazan is going to return the player to his hometown next season.
As for the "Gazprom-Ugra", then the game of the Surgut team with Lokomotiv left a more pleasant and complete impression, than the post-New Year's torment in Sosnovy Bor a round earlier. The team values the ball, tries to get maximum benefit from the overall game, although bottlenecks have not gone away. We lack power in attacking from the edges of the net, and smart volleyball performed by Rodichev and Masko, yes and Papazova, very demanding on the quality of transmissions, which Maxim Kirillov cannot yet fully provide, at least due to his youth. His creative solutions sometimes make you applaud, but maintaining a stable quality of pass is not for Maxim yet. Artem Ivanov is able to provide this quality, but he has obvious disadvantages when playing on the front line.
These shortcomings can be partially overcome through rotation, and also through block protection, providing a sufficient number of pre-game goals with their implementation in the European manner - not at the expense of height and strength, and work on the hands of blockers. Obvious things, they are well understood in Surgut, and in Ufa. The question is, How will this path be implemented in practice?, what counterarguments will the opponent offer?. Taking into account the presence of powerful Potalyuk and Surmachevsky, the same Krsmanovich, we will certainly face forceful pressure. clear, that such a designation smacks of a journalistic cliche: and in Ufa everything is fine with the technique, and in Surgut players can hit the third meter, but the general trend is this: technique vs force. We will see, who will win.
