No upsets in last four matches scheduled this weekend and valid for 2021/22 Superliga Parimatch Round 17.
Zenit-Kazan record 24th consecutive win, Dinamo Moscow move up to 3rd place in charts.
Interestingly, the match against ASK Nizhniy Novgorod put an end to Zenit-Kazan’s series of matches played at home in the competition. In fact, the Tatarstan giants were hosts 6 times in a row!
Zenit achieved their 11th consecutive Superliga win and 24th consecutive win in all competitions. To defeat today’r rivals they didn’t even need Bednorz and Mikhaylov as they both left on the bench by the head coach Aleksey Verbov.
Andrey Surmachevskiy top-scored the winning side with 17 points, whilr Aleksey Kononov made 4 blocks and a 75% attack (9/12).
Zenit still have a comfortable point advantage over second-placed Lokomotiv, +11.
Three points also for Dinamo Moscow, who benefited from yesterday’s defeat of Zenit St. Petersburg. After they swept Gazprom-Yugra on the road by 0-3, the club from the Russian capital took over 3rd place in charts from Zenit St. Petersburg.
Straight sets win on the road also for Kuzbass Kemerovo and Belogorie Belgorod, who defeated Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk and Neftyanik Orenburg, respectively.
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🏐| 2021/22 Superliga Parimatch – Regular Season – Round 17
| February 11, 2022
• Ural Ufa – Fakel Novy Urengoy 3-0 (25:21, 25:19, 25:18)
| February 12
• Dinamo LO – Zenit St. Petersburg 3-2 (18:25, 25:21, 25:21, 22:25, 19:17)
👉🏼 February 13
• Gazprom Surgut – Dinamo Moscow 0-3 (22:25, 19:25, 23:25)
Top Scorers: Alekseev 11, Shakhbanmirzaev 10, Kovalov 6; Podlesnykh 16, Sokolov 15, Semyshev 9, Pankov 6, Likhosherstov 6.
• Zenit Kazan – ASK Nizhniy Novgorod
3-1 (25:11, 19:25, 25:18, 25:18)
Top Scorers: Surmachevskiy 17, Kononov 16, Zemchenok 15, Volkov 12; Andric 22, Kuhno 11, Nikonenko 7.
• Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk – Kuzbass Kemerovo 0-3 (18:25, 18:25, 22:25)
Top Scorers: Galimov 8, Tspekov 7,
Sapozhkov 7; Sivozhelez 15, Markin 12, Papazov 9.
• Neftyanik Orenburg – Belogorie Belgorod 0-3 (17:25, 17:25, 22:25)
Top Scorers: Nikitin 17, Iakovlev 10; Al Hachdadi 25, Masliev 10, Samoylenko 9, Filippov 8.
| March 29
• Lokomotiv Novosibirsk – Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day)
Zenit Kazan 49
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk 38
Dinamo Moscow 33
Zenit St. Petersburg 32
Dinamo LO 27
Kuzbass Kemerovo 27
Belogorie Belgorod 22
Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk 20
ASK Nizhniy Novgorod 19
Gazprom Surgut 14
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk 14
Fakel Novy Urengoy 10
Ural Ufa 12
Neftyanik Orenburg 4
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