First home game with a difficult debutant

Gazprom-Yugra will play its first home game of the championship tomorrow against a Super League newcomer, "Yaroslavich" from, respectively, Yaroslavl. It would seem that there is every chance to rehabilitate yourself in front of your fans for the defeat in the first round in Krasnoyarsk. But it's not that simple.

At first, «Ярославич» – club with history. Once the base team of youth and youth teams, who gave Russian volleyball Maxim Mikhailov, Sergey Grankin, Yuri Berezhko, Alexey Ostapenko, Alexandra Sokolova, Igor Tisevich, his namesake Filippov, who has now returned to his native land and received the captain's badge. I'm sure I forgot someone.

Secondly, the current Yaroslavich - with ambitions, without a beginner's complex and with a clear intention of gaining a foothold in the elite. Head coach and head of the club Sergei Shlyapnikov has extensive experience, he gradually built an infrastructure corresponding to the Super League in Yaroslavl.

Thirdly, The composition of the team was selected for the task. In addition to the mentioned Igor Filippov, we will see two no less experienced, but diverse setters – Cheslav Sventitskis and Andrey Kurash, colorful Serbian diagonal Nikola Meljanac and passed the fire, water and foreign clubs of Maxim Zhigalov. In these lines, I would say, “Yaroslavich” has an “overabundance” of performers.

In the center, Filippov is assisted by Stanislav Cassel, known for his performances for Samotlor., 212-centimeter Yegor Potorchin, retrained from diagonal, and Vladimir Chivel of the same height. Libero - Grigory Dragunov and Alexander Laptev, who played for Gazprom-Yugra.

Perhaps, the most “modest” line could be called finishing the game, where most of the players come from the major league “A”: Andrey Bobrov, Matvey Kutlunin, Pavel Shustrov. But the attacking diagonal Mobin Nasrimastanabad came to their aid from Iran, whose last name, sure, they will learn no worse in the Super League, than "Shahbanmirzaev".

And about the debut match of “Yaroslavich”. At home, the debutants beat Dynamo-Ural Ufa in a tiebreaker. You can talk as much as you like about the gaps in the game of the Ufa team and the absence of the injured Potalyuk, but the result in any case is more than solid. Request, so to speak, of success.

So the match for Gazprom-Yugra will definitely not be an easy walk. But in order to formulate your claims to fight in the championship, we vitally need to win. It is the case, when there is nowhere to retreat in the second round. The result of the game is unpredictable, but I want to believe, that our guys will be able to show everything, what are you capable of, and even a little more. That we will see real fighters on the set, we'll see a battle for every ball. And then everything will work out.