Gazprom-Ugra vs. MGTU | HIGHLIGHTS | 26 Round | SuperLeague 2025-2026

The hosts started in their own style, with an ace from Slavi Kostadinov. Two more free throws on his serve, and the scoreboard shows 5:1. In response, Shkredov sent a powerful serve from the front line, resulting in a 4:5 score. The Yugra team made their next push with Nikiforov's serves (11:6), and then Rodichev accelerated the substitution of Kotov for Korotaev, resulting in a 13:7. The guests continued to make a lot of mistakes on the net and on serve, Alexander Kostadinov got a couple more breaks with a serve and a deceptive blow on the pipe – 18:19. Nagaets created a couple of miracles in defense, Kostadinov was very active on the net, and Demakov put the point with a glider in Korotaev – 25:14.

In the second set, Zhos came in to pass for the guests and gave speed and quality to Shkredov. But first, there was an ace from the birthday boy, Alexander Kostadinov – 5:2. Five accurate attacks from Shkredov equalized the score – 11:11. Alexander Kostadinov, trying to score (successfully), landed on the blocker's leg and sprained his ankle (unsuccessfully) – Kuklinsky came in instead. The game remained more or less even until the end (20:19). Kuklinsky managed to win back a heavy ball from the block, and then serve a straight ball – 22:19. Then the middle blocker grabbed his shoulder – a relapse of the injury that caused him to miss the last games. Already without risk, Kuklinsky simply introduced the ball into the game, however, MGTU did not accept it – 23:19. After that, Pavel made a mistake, and he was replaced by the young middle blocker of the YUKIOR youth team – Fidan Gusamov.

In the third set, the guests predictably attacked Gusamov, who no longer had any substitutes. Fidan did not make any mistakes, but he also did not provide any quality, and he was not very persistent in his attacks. Shkredov scored an ace when the Nagai man tried to help with the reception (3:6), then Gusamov failed twice with not the simplest tasks on the grid - 3:8. However, then he scored "under the skin" and overcame his excitement, despite another missed ace, this time from Korotaev - 6:10. Gradually, the Ugra players made up for their deficit, as MGTU suffered a catastrophe in their setup with the setter leaving the first zone – Gazprom-Ugra earned 7 breaks in this opponent's setup! – 16:12. The Moscow team could not recover from this blow.

Frolov was still playing defense, and Korotaev was confidently handling the net, but these were individual feats, and the team game was over. The match was ended by Andreev's first-tempo attack, resulting in a score of 25:22.

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