On Friday we play with MSTU, who has only two victories and the last place in the championship. I declare responsibly - this is the most important game. There are several reasons for this. Tournament situation. We need more than just a playoff spot, and the place, allowing you to fight in the qualifying round for reaching the quarterfinals. Now we have 11 victories, at Gorky, following - Read more »
The Surgut team almost repeated the scenario of the last match with Fakel, but this time we managed to take the victory in a tiebreaker. In the first set, and in the match as a whole, the decisive factor was the presentation. The visitors tried to create aggression when putting the ball into play, but were wrong seven times. The hosts made four mistakes, but at the same time they made three aces and hit a bunch of freeballs. The first “race” from Rodichev – freeball, an error in the transmission on a knocked out reception and a clean ace, 11:8. Second from Slavi – freeball, knocked out technique with an error on the second touch, more freeball, but Nikiforov ended up under Piskarev’s block in the final game, 15:11. Kuzbass made a double substitution, on his birthday, Tyumen’s diagonal Pavel Yurinsky made his debut as a pitcher in the Super League, and in the end Slavi hit a clean ace plus a freeball (23:16), his brother got a reception on his side on a set point and Nikiforov finished, 25:16.
From the 25th round the finish of the regular season is already quite visible. And in this look you can see, that Gazprom-Yugra can complete all its current tasks - to stay in the playoff zone and climb as high as possible in it - in the next series of three home games. The first of them is with Kemerovo Kuzbass. Once national champion and team, in Read more »
At the start of each set (except the fifth) Ugra residents used Daniil Golovanov to serve, releasing him at the "old" middle blocker position. Now Daniil plays in the MVL for YUKIOR in the position of a diagonal, which does not in any way affect his skills as an excellent pitcher. And the hosts took the first set largely due to this element - but the more experienced masters distinguished themselves.
On Friday, at their home Premier Arena, Gazprom-Yugra will hold a mini-battle for ninth place with Novy Urengoy Fakel.. Why "mini"? Well, At first, the battle for ninth place is such a sign, if you don't know all the components. Doesn't sound. Secondly, it's just a game during the regular season, everything could still change nine times before the playoffs. But there are several important “buts”. First Read more »
Two games within one match: the first two sets were fought by equal opponents, in the third and fourth the visitors' advantage was much more noticeable. The watershed was the end of the second game, protracted to the point of an “indecent” bill: missing several story opportunities 2:0, the owners fell into a psychological hole and were unable to climb out of it.
After three victories in a row, the most serious test awaits us in the new year - a match with one of the grandees of Russian volleyball, Novosibirsk "Locomotive". This game is interesting for several reasons.. At first, grand grand, but we are quite capable of competing with the guests, "drag" a set or two, and then - who knows?. MSTU, an outsider, split with Loko in the last round in five Read more »
And at home the Yugra residents beat the Ufa team dry, repeating the away success of the first round. The debut of the match turned out to be abundant in mutual marriage during the serve, in this atmosphere, Alexander Kostadinov decided - with an attack and an ace, as well as Kuklinsky with an effective discount in a protracted draw, 5:2. Blok evened out the situation for the same Kuklinsky, 6:5, and then the rivals kept pace, exchanging breaks from time to time. At the same time, the Yugra residents continued to sin in serving, having accumulated as many as nine errors from this category by the end (20:20 after a goal from Aleksandar Kostadinov).
The January calendar continues its gallop, but we are still in the saddle! Already on Monday, a new test awaits us - Dynamo-Ural from Ufa will come to Surgut. The most, perhaps, "Surgut" Super League team, not to mention, properly, "Gazprom-Yugry". Count for yourself: The place of the second central was taken by a native of Nizhnevartovsk Maxim Kosmin, Krsmanovich, Chanchikov, Yakutin, Skvortsov, Pirainen - they all played for us. Ursov and Krsmanovich - in general, can say, team Read more »
The hosts supported the trend of the tour, with a clean home win. This time the Gazprom-Ugra game was led by Rafael Khabibullin and it was impossible not to notice, that the team played collectedly and purposefully. What cannot be said about Krasnoyarsk residents, who had obvious problems in taking and, Consequently, in attack.
