Men's Super League-Budinvest 2022-2023
IX round. 6 match
Chernivtsi Arena "PVLU". February 18, 2023
VC "Prometey" - "Epicenter-Podolyany" – 2:3 (25:19, 25:21, 22:25, 18:25, 11:15)
The central match of the 9th round of the men's Super League-Budinvest was undoubtedly the duel between the current season's favorites VC "Prometey" from the city of Dnipro and representatives of Khmelnytskyi region - "Epicenter-Podolyany".
In the opening set, the audience saw a powerful series of serves from
middle blocker Denys Veletskyi, no less powerful attacks from the opposite Dmytro Shapoval, and a series of blocks from the same Dnipro players. "Epicenter-Podolyany" volleyball players tried to resist the hosts, but they could not succeed. As a result, 25:19 in favor of "Prometey".
In the second set, there was a fierce struggle. The teams demonstrated simply incredibly fast volleyball. At first, the Dnipro club led the score (11:8), but then Podolyany were able to earn 5 points in a row (12:11). However, this was the last episode when they led in this segment of the game (14:14). Andrii Levchenko's team gradually gained the points they needed (18:16 - 22:19), and eventually won the second set in a row - 25:21.
After a 10-minute break, the teams first fought evenly (9:9), then took turns taking the lead (12:9 - 12:14). Later, they again kept an even score on the scoreboard, which created a lot of intrigue in the match (19:19). The end was better played by the players of "Epicenter" - 25:22.
Podolyany realized that not everything was lost and played a good fourth set. At the same time, it was noticeable that the Dnipro players had lost their concentration and were playing less emotionally. 25:18 in favor of the "bisons" and 2-2 in sets.
The tie-break began with a series of servings by middle blocker Maksym Drozd (3:1). These +2 points the team of Mariusz Sordyl was able to save until the end of the match - 15:11 and 3-2 in favor of the team from the town of Horodok.
The most productive player of the match was Ivan Reich (19 points), the opposite of "Epicenter-Podolyany".
The MVP prize went to middle blocker Maksym Drozd from Epicenter as well.
Starting line-up of VC "Prometey": Shapoval (scored 16 points), Kryvobok (5 points), Veletskyi (11 points), Shchytkov (4 points), Hladenko (17 points), Yereshchenko (15 points), Boiko (l), Patratii (l). Yanchuk (2 points), Tomilin (0 points), and Oleksiuk (4 points) were substituting.
Head coach: Andrii Levchenko.
Starting line-up of VC "Epicenter-Podolyany": Kisiliuk (scored 1 point), Penchev (15 points), Didenko (3 points), Ostapenko (2 points), Reich (19 points), Drozd (18 points), Brova (l), Fomin (l). Nalozhnyi (3 points), Rohozhyn (3 points), and Sydorenko (6 points) were substituting.
Head coach: Mariusz Sordyl.
"Epicenter-Podolyany" became the winner of the first stage of the championship of Ukraine 2022-2023!
