Anderson-Dinamo Kazan
More fought is seen in the match of the other group between Belgorod and Krasnodar. The home team began committing many mistakes in attack (17-21), so despite a comeback in the final stages of the 1st set guests closed games with an attack and it was 25-27. The situation is even more complicated for the home side in the 2 nd set. On 10-14 Khtei, appeared far from the best condition, was replaced by Fomenko, but it’s still the Krasnodar is monitor the situation until 19-24. The good play of Fomenko, couple of mistakes on offense for guests and a Muserskiy active block and the Belgorod hits the comeback: 26-24. The Belogorie dominates in the 3rd set is never questioned (11-6, 20-11, 25-18), but returned to make effort in 4th set especially Grozer in the middle stages that launches guests on 13-16. The score varied 17-20 and 20-22. On 22-24 tie-break was in the air, instead at (23-24), Muserskiy‘s two powerful strokes caused errors in attack for Conte (24-24) and Nosenko (25-24) and then direct ace for 26-24.
Results and schedule
December 24
Group A: Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod — Zenit Kazan 0:3 (15:25, 23:25, 15:25)
Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod: Ostapenko 2, Nikic 5, M.Esko 0, Savin 9, N.Pavlov 6, Lyamin 1, Petropavlov (L); Dranishnikov (L), Egorov 0, Shulgin 1, O.Sychev 4, Tyurin 3.
Zenit Kazan: Anderson 15, Apalikov 6, Vermiglio, Abrosimov 8, Sivozhelez 12, Mikhaylov 12, Babichev (L); Demakov 1, Berezhko 2, Cheremisin 0, Kolodinskiy 0.
Group B: Belogorie Belgorod – Dinamo Krasnodar 3:1 (25:27, 26:24, 25:18, 26:24)
December 25
13.30: Group A: Dinamo Moscow – Gubernia Nizhny Novgorod
16.00: Group B: Lokomotiv Novosibirsk – Dinamo Krasnodar
December 26
13.30: Group A: Zenit Kazan – Dinamo Moscow
16.00: Group B: Belogorie Belgorod – Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
December 28
13.30: 1st semifinal
16.00: 2nd semifinal
December 29
13.30: Final 3rd-4th place
16.00: Final 1st and 2nd place
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