Russia: Fakel only team who managed to beat Dinamo Moscow in Superliga this season..and they did it again!

Dinamo Moscow failed to take revenge on Fakel, who became the only team that managed to beat the club from the Russian capital in the national championship this season!
Of course, the duel between leaders Dinamo Moscow and 5th-placed Fakel aroused particular interest among volleyball fans in Russia. And it was not only because both teams are title contenders in the 2020/21 Superliga Parimatch, but also because the team from the north of the country was the only one who inflicted a defeat to Dinamo Moscow in the championship so far. Dinamo had a desire to take revenge in a match valid for Round 22 but failed and thus suffered one more defeat against Fakel in the season: 1-3 (23:25, 23:25, 25:20, 23:25), and they broke the rival’s huge winning streak of 14 games in all competitions (10 games in the league).

On the other matches, sweeping Neftyanik by a 3-0, Zenit Saint Petersburg with 12 points by Ukrainian-Russian Dmytro Pashytskyy ended their own series of losses that consisted of 3 games and moved up to 3rd place in the standings.
A surprisingly long winning streak of ASK Nizhniy Novgorod of 8 games has been broken by Ural Ufa (1-3) for which Canadian John Gordon Perrin scored 22 points, Evgeniy Rybakov served 4 aces, and Dmitriy Kolenkovskiy made 4 blocks. Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk defeats on their home soil Dinamo LO 3:1, while Zenit Saint Petersburg defeats on the road Neftyanik Orenburg in straight sets

| 2020/21 Russian Superliga Parimatch regular season – Round 22:

| November 16
• Belogorie Belgorod – Zenit Kazan 3:2 (25:20, 17:25, 25:21, 21:25, 15:13)

| February 13
• Ural Ufa – ASK Nizhniy Novgorod 3:1 (25:23, 25:23, 24:26, 25:15)
Top Scorers: Perrin 22, Rybakov 18, Feoktistov 12, Kolenkovskiy 10; Vietskiy 26, Titich 11, Nikonenko 9, Pyatirkin 7.

• Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk – Dinamo LO 3:1 (31:33, 25:23, 25:18, 25:22)
Top Scorers: Masliev 19, Papazov 17, Tsepkov 14, Makarenko 12, Piun 10; Alekseev 20, Shpilev 19, Biryukov 13, Art. Melnikov 8.

• Dinamo Moscow – Fakel Novy Urengoy 1:3 (23:25, 23:25, 25:20, 23:25)
Top Scorers: Sokolov 17, Podlesnykh 12, Deroo 10, Vlasov 9, Shchkulyavichus 7; Volkov 23, Zhigalov 13, Bogdan 11, Gutsalyuk 6.

• Neftyanik Orenburg – Zenit Saint Petersburg 0:3 (13:25, 17:25, 16:25)
Top Scorers: Moroz 8, Ananiev 5, Purin 4; Pashytskyy 12, Kliuka 11, Poletaev 10, I. Iakovlev 7, Ursov 7.

| February 14
• Lokomotiv Novosibirsk – Gazprom Surgut 3:1 (19:25, 25:23, 25:21, 25:20)

| March 11
• Kuzbass Kemerovo – Yenisey Krasnoyarsk

| Standings (updated on February 13, 2021)
Dinamo Moscow 49
Kuzbass Kemerovo 45
Zenit Saint Petersburg 45
Fakel Novy Urengoy 43
Zenit Kazan 42
Ural Ufa 34
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 34
ASK Nizhniy Novgorod 27
Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk 29
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk 24
Gazprom Surgut 20
Dinamo LO 19
Belogorie Belgorod 17
Neftyanik Orenburg 13