Russia: Game 1 of preliminary round of playoffs with all home victories

All Game 1 of preliminary round of playoffs, the one that will define the four team which will join Zenit Kazan (regular season leaders and hosts of the event) and No.2 Novosibirsk in Final Six, were played today.
Prediction respected with home victories of Dinamo Moscow, with 16 points, 65% and 55% efficiency in attack, 1 block and 2 aces over young Fakel Novy Urengoy, Zenit
Saint Petersburg (who lose a set) still without Urnaut and Kliuka over ASK Nizhniy Novgorod, of Dinamo LO with a great performance on Serbian national team member Marko Ivovic, author of 19 points with 71% and 62% efficiency in attack, 2 blocks and 2 aces over Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk and, in supposedly more balanced duel, of Belogorie Belgorod (10 points and 71% in attack of young Tetyukhin) over Kuzbass Kemerovo.

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🏐| 2021/22 Superliga – Playoffs Preliminary Round

Game 1 | April 20

• Dinamo Moscow (3) – Fakel Novy
Urengoy (10) 3-0 (25:19, 25:16, 26:24)
Dinamo Moscow: Pankov 5, Bogdan 16, Likhosherstov 4, Sokolov 15, Podlesnykh 13, Belogortchev 8, Kerminen (L); Sventitskis O, Dmitriev 0. Not entered: Shchkulyavichus, Baranov (L), Zhuk, Busel, Semyshev. Coach: Bryanskiy.
Fakel: Zhukouski 0, Yutsevich 4, Al. Melnikova 3, Babkevich 12, Dineikin 7, Aleksey Safonov 3, Andreev (L); Krot 0, Vyshnikov 0, Morozov O, Ens O. Not entered: Mushenko, Chanchikov, Petrushov (L). Coach: Nikolaev.

• Zenit Saint Petersburg (4) – ASK
Nizhniy Novgorod (9) 3-1 (25:23, 21:25, 25:20, 25:23)
Saint Petersburg: Kobzar 3, Voronkov 17, Kosmin 7, Poletaev 17, Ursov 12, Iakovlev 12, Grebennikov (L); Melkozerov (L), Podrebinkin 0. Not entered: Machnev, Tarasenko, Kliuka, Urnaut, Kotov. Coach: Tolochkko.
ASK Nizhniy Novgorod: Khaibulov 7, Titich 16, Nikonenko 10, Antonov 15, Pyatirkin 11, Andreev 2, Nagaets (L); Kuhno 0, Dyachkov 0. Not entered: Lyamin, Zhelezhnyakov, Konovalov. Coach: Dranishnikov.

• Dinamo LO (5) – Yugra Samotlor
Nizhnevartovsk (8) 3-0 (25:16, 25:21, 25:21)
Dinamo LO: Jovovic 1, Ivovic 19,
Chervyakov 7, Pirainen 13, Biryukov 10, Kolenkovsky 4, Zelenkov (L); Vishnevetsky (L), Zhigalov 0, Strilchuk O. Not entered: Shenkel, Melnikov, Purin, Abrosimov. Coach: Klimkin.
Samotlor: Kreskin 0, Galimov 8, Shkredau 0, Sapozhkov 6, Shpilev O, Tsepkov 10, Krotkov (L); Pozdniakov 2, Pluzhnikov 6, Gafarov 0, Litvinenko 15. Not entered: Kuznetsov, Verniy, Davletshin (L). Coach: Pyaskovsky

• Belogorie Belgorod (6) – Kuzbass
Kemerovo (7) 3-0 (26:24, 25:18, 25:23)
Belgorod: Kovalev O, Tetyukhin 10, Filippov 8, Al Hachdadi 16, Masliev 13, Samoylenko 8, Bragin (L); Ananiev 0, Spodobets 1, Sidenko O. Not entered: Abramichev, Petric, Kirillov (L), Zabolotnikov. Coach: Kolchin.
Kemerovo: Krechetov 1, Pakshin 12,
Shcherbakov 2, Papazov 14, Sivozhelez 6, Krsmanovic 9, Obmochaev (L); Diachkov 0, Sieemshchikov O, Butko O. Not entered: Markin, Tavasiev, Moiseev (L). Coach: Juricic.

Game 2 | April 24, 2022
• Fakel Novy Urengoy (10) – Dinamo
Moscow (3) 0-3 (21:25, 20:25, 15:25) Serie: 0-2
• ASK Nizhniy Novgorod (9) – Zenit
Saint Petersburg (4) 0-3 (21:25, 19:25, 16:25) Serie: 0-2
• Yugra Samotlor Nizhnevartovsk (8) – Dinamo LO (5) 0-3 (19:25, 23:25, 24:26) Serie: 0-2
• Kuzbass Kemerovo (7) – Belogorie
• Belgorod (6) 1-3 (25:22, 20:25, 19:25, 13:25)

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Formula
Best-of-three. Game 2 on April 24, eventual Game 3 on April 27. Winners to final 6 (May 5-10, already qualified Zenit Kazan, hosts and regular season winners, and No.2 Lokomotiv Novosibirsk).

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