Gorkiy vs. Belogorie | SuperLeague 2025-2026 Highlights 🏐

In the first round of the Russian Super League, the revamped Gorky team hosted the bronze medalists of the previous championship from Belgorod. Before the start of the season, Belogory had already made a name for themselves in the Victory Cup, defeating Zenit Kazan in the bronze medal match.

The opening set was the most intense and longest of the entire match. The close game led to a battle for a two-ball advantage. At the score of 24:24, the hosts' диагональный Павел Железняков first managed to score a point for his team with a powerful attack. In the next episode, the Belgorod team had two attempts to score, but failed to do so, but Zheleznyakov was again accurate in the overhand, having recouped from the opponent's block – 26:24, the Nizhny Novgorod team took the lead..

In the next two sets, the Belgorod players showed their class. They started with a strong serve, repeatedly breaking Gorky's blocks and then covering the Nizhny Novgorod attackers with their own blocks. With this style of play, Georgi Kretsu's team effortlessly won two sets with a resounding score of 25:14.

However, in the fourth set, the visitors' serve weakened, allowing the Nizhny Novgorod players to improve their reception and free up their setter, Dmitry Filippov, who repeatedly led his attackers to a single block. This is exactly what happened at the beginning of the game, when the score was 11:10, and Alexander Pyatyrkin, the captain of Nizhny Novgorod, managed to make a successful attack on one block. Later, Pavel Zheleznyakov, the diagonal player, hit an ace at 13:10. The Belogory players were unable to close the gap, and the hosts took the set and advanced to the tiebreaker, winning 25:22.

In the shortened game, the draw with the score 6:5 can be considered decisive, when Dmitry Filippov first raised the discount from Al Khachdadi, and then scored a point himself, throwing off with both hands - 7:5. In the next episode, finishing player Sergey Nikitin bounced back from the block and sent the teams to switch venues with a three-point advantage of Gorky - 8:5. Having switched sides, Nizhny Novgorod continued to lead, Nikitin took over the second attack in a row – 9:5. Belgorod, of course, fought to the end, managing to reduce the gap to a minimum – 11:10 due to the attack. Here, Gorky's captain Alexander Pyatyrkin said his piece with an attack on the block – 12:10. In the next episode, the guests' captain Pavel Tetyukhin attacked into the out (13:10), and the decisive ball of the meeting was recorded by the diagonal player Pavel Zheleznyakov – 15:12.

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