Women's Super League-Dmart
8th round. 5 match.
Chernivtsi. "PVLU" Arena. January 27.
SC "Prometey" - "Alanta" - 0:3 (23:25, 14:25, 20:25).
SC "Prometey": Polina Dziuba (10 points), Uliana Kotar (7), Dariia Kaplanska (6), Mariia Kaplanska (1), Olena Rudyk (1), Kristina Starostenko (7), Kateryna Vasylieva (L) - starting line-up; Maryna Mircheva (0), Anastasiia Horbachenko (1), Marta Fedyk (12), Kateryna Cherkashyna (1), Yana Prokopova (L).
"Alanta": Lidiia Luchko (8), Stanislava Parfonova (5), Kateryna Silchenkova (10), Mariia Protsenko (12), Yuliia Kaminska (17), Mariia Lozynska (5), Alika Lutsenko (L) - starting line-up; Varvara Bukatseli (0).
In the central match of the 8th round of the Super League-Dmart, "Prometey" and "Alanta" faced each other. Before the next derby, the teams from the Dnipropetrovsk region had 38 points each, but "Alanta" had one victory more. In the previous matches of the championship, the teams alternately celebrated success with a score of 3:0, and in the semi-finals of the League Cup, they gave volleyball fans a real thriller with the victory of "Alanta" in five sets. Today's confrontation was expected to be just as "hot".
However, the reality turned out to be completely different: "Alanta" won a very confident victory over the opponent, although, in the debut of the match, it was impossible to give an advantage to anyone. At the equator of the set, the team from Kamianske broke out a little ahead - 11:8. At the beginning of the second half of the set, their handicap was 4 points - 15:11, 16:12, but "Alanta" very quickly equalized the score - 17:17. The Dnipro team did not stop there and broke ahead by three points - 20:17. Now it is the turn of "Prometey" to correct the situation. Andrii Romanovych's players coped with this task and regained the lead with a 4:0 run. However, the team from Dnipro still won this exciting set - 25:23.
The second set started very confidently for Gariy Yeghiazarov's team, winning the first half with a difference of 9 points - 13:4. Dnipro team continued to completely dominate the court. On the part of "Prometey", the significant rotation of the team did not fundamentally affect the situation. For the set, the club from Kamianske scored only 14 points, and from the point of view of the development of events in the match, they found themselves in a critical situation.
After a ten-minute break, the head coach of "Prometey" Andrii Romanovych took a time-out already in the opening of the third set, as his team was trailing 0:3. Then the backlog of Prometey was calculated by 9 points at once (2:11). Only after that, "Prometey" significantly strengthened their game. Kamianske team tied the score in the middle of the set (13:13). However, today "Alanta" was stronger than its geographical neighbors. They managed to regain the advantage and brought the game to a victorious end.
Dnipro club has 41 points in the championship, and "Prometey" still has 38 points.
