Wet volleyball

"Bitter" (Nizhny Novgorod): Filippov – Zheleznyakov, Dovgan - Kayumov, Savin – Dmitriev, Konev/Kashtanov

"Gazprom-Ugra" (Surgut): Ivanov – Nikiforov, Demakov - Andreev, Rodichev – Panov, Moiseev/Eremin

There is such a concept: raw volleyball. The team is not ready, plays with marriage, the mechanism is not assembled. In the first round, the Surgut team showed not even raw, and a completely wet volleyball. The game, with a sane reception, began to be undermined by poor quality (aimed at the block, given out of tempo) transfers Artem Ivanov. The initiative was taken up by Alexey Rodichev, scored approximately zero points in attack. His counterpart and long-time partner at Lokomotiv Sergei Savin, in front of, was unstoppable in the fourth zone. This and the tight serve of Fannur Kayumov were enough, to turn the score around in the first set with 6:5 in favor of Surgut residents 6:9.

Ivanov tried to correct himself with an ace (10:11), but his main weapon - passing - continued to hit his own. It seemed like a good idea to pass to Nikiforov across the entire net for one block - but straight into the hands of Savin, 11:14. Savin continued to burn: Rodichev tries to score three times in difficult situations, Sergey effectively folds in a similar game, 13:17. In the end, the hosts shook up the reliable reception of our captain, scoring two aces on it - from Kayumov and Tselishchev, who came on instead of Filippov, 16:24. And for a snack, Dovgan sent Demakov on guard.

The second game began with Ivanov and Nikiforov completely out of sync, спас Андреев, closing Zheleznyakov, 2:2. The extravaganza with the programs did not end: Ivanov scored a deuce, where there was no one - or it was an unsuccessful pass to the same Nikiforov in the first zone, 4:7. Another diagonal pass out of tempo and Kirillov appears on the court, and Bobrov comes out instead of Rodichev. Fire on the board (8:15) begins to rapidly fade thanks to the mistakes of the owners and the suddenly grown bloc of Surgut residents, 13:15.

Dranishnikov's time-out changes the emerging trend: Savin corrects himself on a difficult ball, but Bobrov does not complete the efforts of his comrades in defense and insurance. Immediately Kayumov scores an ace on Bobrov, and Savin scores with one foot, 13:19. At the end, Pavel Galota comes out to serve and scores an ace with the ball breaking off the rope., Dovgan answers with an ace, 17:24. The quintessence of set point play: Zheleznyakov hits touch, but we kindly hook up the net.

For the third set, Gazprom-Yugra entered with Kirillov instead of Ivanov, Serov instead of Rodichev and Galota instead of Nikiforov, who ate tasteless programs. We've been balancing for a while, but then Dmitriev scores the end of the game, and Savin draws up an ace, 5:9. Demakov finds the corner of the site with his glider, Galota is played out by hand, 9:10. Instead of Dmitriev, who floated in the technique, Pyatyrkin appears and immediately scores. Zheleznyakov confidently climbs into the block, 13:14. it seems, we can get hooked at least now, but Filippov removes his hands on the block and Panov shoots out in a protracted rally, 13:16. Savin decides again, 13:17. Ace again, this time from Zheleznyakov, 13:18.

There are risks in the supply, leading to mass marriage - with this difference, that the owners were relaxed, and we were looking for the last chance of hope. The exchange in favor of Gorky ended with a double substitution of 17:22, after which Ivanov again ruined the transmission, and Zheleznyakov found the correct angle of interaction with the hands of blockers, 17:23. Pyatyrkin closed the list of Gorky aces with an ace, where I missed, it seems, only Filippov, and Artem Dovgan scored the point in the match.

Without looking at the statistics, we can state a terrible percentage of efficiency in attack. But the quality of broadcasts cannot be included in the statistics.. Forwards usually correct at least some percentage of setter defects, but this time it didn’t work out either. Reception, I think, was equally unstable on both sides, with that difference, that the hosts had the resources to correct the situation on the grid. Plus feed, of course, the Gorky flew much more accurately and efficiently. Generally, everything is still very wet. The only ray of sunshine, drying up the situation a little, Pavel Galota appeared, winning several goals at speed. But he is not yet able to change the course of such a game..