Stuff the corset
St. Petersburg “Zenith” is the most under-titled giant of Russian volleyball. This is due to the short history of the club and a kind of karma, saying, that everyone, who will go straight to the Super League, this “jump” will work out.
"Working off", seem to be, the club is coming to an end, headed by Vladimir Alekno, wants and, the main thing, can climb to the very top. The team is staffed so smoothly, that the results of training “two-way matches” with the participation of the conditionally first and conditionally second squads are of particular interest.
I would risk comparing the level of the conditionally second team of St. Petersburg players (Tisevich, Poletaev, Ananiev, Chereiskaya, Pakshin, Bochanov, Shishkin) with base, eg, "Dinamo-LO". That is, these are people, capable of pressing the pedestal. Well, at the core are absolute monsters Babkevich, Yant, station wagon Dineikin, Dikarev, Kosmin, the best libero in the world Grebennikov and our Kobzar, passed almost everything in volleyball.
Yenisei, of course, He showed, that you can not only fight them, but also to win on a good day, but... an exception to the rule only confirms the rule. And that's how it is: It is impossible to jump over Babkevich. You can try to minimize losses, making him uncomfortable. The problem is, that the bread of the diagonal is high balls, that's exactly what happens, if you make it difficult for your opponent to receive. On an organized block, on shots taken away from the net - you can try to catch something. But in Grebennikov’s reception, we need to target Yant. Plus something surprising in attack. Generally, playing against Zenit will be as interesting as possible both creatively and tactically, as well as in applied.
Here I remember the practice of contact karate styles, when athletes fill the striking surfaces and the entire muscle corset, to reduce sensitivity to pain. The match with Zenit could become such a filler for Gazprom-Yugra, which can subsequently numb contact with those opponents, whose nose bleeds need to win. It’s not that Zenit doesn’t need it, trying is not torture, but this is somewhere on the edge of the possible.
I think, Our guys will go to the match without interfering thoughts and emotions, which is already good. You need to concentrate on your actions, "Neftyanik" is finally coming out of a long downtime - but you won't envy them, and then - come what may. Zenit will give chances - we must use them. If he doesn’t give it up, let him at least tinker. And for us - corset stuffing. by the way, about him: interesting, will Vladimir Alekno come to Surgut? If he doesn't come, we, just like Enisey will have an additional chance. The head coach of St. Petersburg knows how to keep the team in good shape, in the same “corset”.
