Zenit Kazan vs. Lokomotiv, Semifinals (2nd match), Highlights, Бетсити Cup of Russia
Both Plamen Konstantinov and his colleague Alexey Verbov fielded their strongest lineups to date. Coach Kazantsev traditionally released Roman Romanovsky for the first serve, who was soon replaced by Artyom Volvich. The first serious breakaway was successful for the Novosibirsk team: Ilya Kazachenkov first knocked Sam Deru out of the reception with a powerful serve, and after a timeout made the ace shortened 14:10. Maxim Mikhailov, the diagonal Zenit player, did not get along well in attack, who made three mistakes by the score of 12:16. Loko s players made mistakes Omar Kurbanov hit twice in the out, then Martin Atanasov missed the court 17:17. In the end, Zenit fought off Alexander Kostadinov s attack, but Deru was accurate in the counterattack 23:21. Kurbanov returned to the set instead of Kostadinov, but immediately received an ace from Dmitry Volkov. And then Omar made a fatal mistake on serve 25:22 in favor of the hosts. In total, in the first set, Novosibirsk made 8 mistakes on
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