Compliments to "Torch"
"Gazprom-Ugra" (Surgut): Kirillov - Nikiforov, Demakov - Andreev, Panov – Serov, Eremin/Moiseev
Torch" (New Urengoy): I. Ivanov – Yurinsky, Mole - Sidorenko, Enin – Kvochko, Kazarinov/Bekhterev
The start mirrored the previous match with Loko for the Surgut team - then the hosts rushed 5:0, have now flown away 1:5 I handed Enina over. Vladislav handed over the glider, and Panov, kicker, failed the reception twice in a row.
Reception from the hosts and did not think about recovering, so all attempts to win back resulted in additional chances for the guests. Good, that the Surgut residents did not forget the block at home, it helped somewhat.
Blok stopped Yenin (7:10), Serov hit a clean ace (8:10), Enin was on pace with the ball, 10:11. Andreev bends in defense, I run into a pillar, the team fights, but... reception again, rather, his absence. This time Serov can’t cope with Enin’s serves, Yurinsky finishes the game, 11:15.
Bobrov comes out to save the serve and it turns out tight, which gives two realized pre-game chances to Nikiforov. Another excellent serve and Kvochko hits the ball into touch, evening the score, 16:16.
Nikiforov folds - technical error, 16:18. Out of frustration he throws out, 16:19. Yurinsky's feed into the line, 16:20. Nikiforov still snaps back with an ace, 18:20 and has the opportunity to score on his own serve, but steps beyond the three-meter line. And again the reception fails, not letting you catch on to the elusive set, 18:22. Toward the end, Yurinsky successfully throws a low pass, and Nikiforov hits out, 19:25.
Rodichev replaced Serov for the second set, and on the court and the scoreboard - an equal fight and the same score. Yurinsky hits out without blocking, then runs into Panov’s hands and gives way to Enns (9:8). Surgut residents chew on teraflex, Panov ends a protracted rally, and the view taken by Fakel records the contact of the antenna from their side, 11:8. But the reception continues to float, but Kirillov doesn’t correct. Rodichev past, but the review records the contact of the lower rope with the Mole. Roman Empolov takes a review - Kirillov from the back line touched the ball above the rope, 12:11.
Battle of views leads to two Enns mistakes, Yurinsky is in the clearing again, 15:12. Kvochko pulls up the “Fakel” with a confident ace. 17:16, and the block to Bobrov, who came out instead of Panov, equals the chances, 18:18. Surgut residents give preference to their marriage: Nikiforov past the field, Kirillov guides Demakov with a low pass into a double block, 18:20. Denis Bystrov, who came out to serve, continues to undermine the reception, but Yurinsky sends the end game into touch, 19:20.
Artem Ivanov passes for the Surgut team, and his namesake Ilya makes a rare mistake - he unsuccessfully tries to throw off the rebound from the block, 20:20. The ending went to the exchange of the first tempos, and the outcome of the set was decided by two mistakes by the guests: first, Sidorenko took the passing ball from his libero and sent it under the rope, and then Enin blocked Kazarinov in the move - Andreev scored an ace, 27:25.
In the opening of the third game, the serve of “Fakel” decides, ace from Yurinsky and series from Kvochko, 5:10. Artem Ivanov, who replaced Kirillov again, sends the ball past Andreev, Rodichev passes the passing ball back to the opponent, 7:12. Ilya Ivanov played a little with Sidorenko, he is wrong twice, 12:14. Serov replaces Rodichev on serve and fires a great shot, but Kazarinov flawless, like Enin in the final game, 14:17. Returning Kirillov earns a second technical “mustard plaster” for a two-handed discount, two aces from Enin bury the hosts' hopes, 16:22.
However, The owners unit continues to work from time to time: Kvochko stopped, Demakov forces guests to throw away the glider, 20:23. Gahlot, who came out at the end of the curtain, withdrew confidently at first on set points, then made a great serve and scored the end of the game, 22:24. But at that moment Yurinsky did not flinch, 22:25.
Gazprom-Yugra went to the fourth set with the pair Ivanov - Galota. Ace by Ivanov, but Ilya - 1:4, Panov again “distinguished himself” and gave way to Serov. Kazarinov continues to bring everything to his setter’s nose, even a wonderful serving of Galote, fortunately Rodichev blocks Yurinsky one on one, 5:6. Protracted rally, chance to level, but Galota does not fit into the field. But it works a little later: Enin gets stuck in a block twice in a row, the hosts take the lead, 10:9. And immediately fail on the submissions of Ilya Ivanov: reception sucks again, Yurinsky again, and then there's ace, torn from the cable, 10:13.
“Fakel” drags this advantage right to the end. And there... A typical episode: Mushenko, who came out to strengthen his serve, does an excellent job, the visitors don't score on a high ball, Kirillov passes Serov somewhere behind the antenna, Georgy barely manages to catch the projectile, who jumps into the antenna at the hands of blockers, 17:19. But Surgut residents are rarely lucky today: another powerful serve, however, Enin skillfully transfers the ball into the empty first zone. Responsive action of "Fakel" – strengthening of serve by Denis Bystrov. Blok Serov, ace, knocked out reception, 17:23. Gahlota earns the last point for the team, for Kirillov to throw out, and Pavel himself failed to cope with a block on the first match point.
Compliments for the beautiful play of the Fakel youth. Well, Gazprom-Yugra was not able to pull out the game either by experience, no patience: not catching, primarily, accepts. Links didn't fix anything, the attackers didn’t show miracles either. Defeat in the case.
Match comments:
Head coach of VC Fakel Roman Empolov: I asked the boys to play boldly, don't look at past games. It's always difficult to play in Surgut, good fans, the hall is almost full, shouting, support. Prepared the guys, what will happen somewhere can’t be heard, somewhere we will be slowed down. We always go to Surgut, knowing, that there is good support here and it will be hard, there are no simple games here. Doubly nice, what everyone played today, it's hard to tag someone, played good team volleyball. There were situations, when you made a lot of mistakes, but we came out of this situation well. Congratulations Urengoy, all the guys, team with first win of the season. This was important to us.
In the second game we started with four failures to serve., then they compensated with the release of Denis Bystrov, I want to celebrate it today - I served it in cold blood, on his serves we went ahead. Lacked composure at the end of the game, how is this, basically, was also in Ufa, there, too, in the end we lost two points. Here we still have to study and study, hope, that this experience will come. Good, that today the opponent allowed us to return to the game.
Binder of VK Fakel Ilya Ivanov: It was very loud today, there were a lot of fans in the hall and I wanted to show a good game. I think, we believed in ourselves, that we can win, what we get here is, what happened in training.
Coach of VC Gazprom-Yugra Alexander Chefranov: Commentary on the game, probably, it won't be that interesting, normally. A lot of things didn't work out. Compared to the previous game, we served poorly today, plus some kind of nervousness affected everything: made some stupid mistakes in simple situations, and these were break balls. Pick up 2-3 such a ball in every game - and the score would have been completely different. When you play such a phenomenal fiery match against a top team (I mean the game with Lokomotiv – ca.. order.), you always expect, that there will be a slight decline. But we didn't count on it, that it will be so noticeable, so much. So far our games are happening in waves.: we either fail, or we give out some incredible game. Will be working, so that we still have some kind of stability. First of all, this is psychology. It's OK, basically, didn't happen, the main thing is to draw the right conclusions and move forward.
Libero VC Gazprom-Yugra Alexander Moiseev: Today we lacked the quality of the game. If we take the game with Lokomotiv – such a feeling, that in our performance there were two different teams. Failed at the reception, made a lot of mistakes on serve, in attack. The only thing, can, played well on the block. You can say, that they gave away the game themselves. Yes, "Fakel" played well, but, if we had imposed a fight in the third game, may be, would turn the game in our favor. Maybe somewhere there was not enough emotion, but it will look like an excuse now. We need to look for some positive moments, get off your game, and not look at the other side.
1: 3 
Torch Yamal (New Urengoy)Details
| Date | Time | Championship |
|---|---|---|
| 25.10.2026 | 19:00 | CR 2026-2027 |
Results
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | GENERAL. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra) | 19 | 27 | 22 | 18 | 1 |
| Torch Yamal (New Urengoy) | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
Gazprom-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | S | K | E | FACING | B | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Torch Yamal (New Urengoy)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | S | K | E | FACING | B | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
