Men's Super League-Budinvest
7th round. 6 match.
Chernivtsi. Arena "PVLU". January 20.
VC "MHP-Vinnytsia"-ShVSM - VC "Prometey" - 0:3 (21:25, 21:25, 22:25)
VC "MHP-Vinnytsia"-ShVSM: Danylo Uryvkin (9 points), Ruslan Osypenko (1), Andrii Stebletskyi (6), Serhii Mishchenko (10), Bohdan Tatarenko (5), Stanislav Velychko (8), Yaroslav Pampushko (L) - starting line-up; Andrii Ratushniak (3), Viktor Ivashchenko (0).
VC "Prometey": Dmytro Shapoval (11), Ivan Kryvobok (12), Heorhii Klepko (6), Dmytro Yanchuk (12), Oleksandr Hladenko (12), Vitalii Shchytkov (4), Vadym Patratii (L) - starting line-up; Serhii Riabov (0), Oleksandr Boiko (L), Eduard Shteryk (0).
In the evening match of today's game day, "MHP-Vinnytsia" from Trostyanets and "Prometey" from Dnipro faced each other. This match, like the confrontation between the "Barkom-National Team of Ukraine U-18" and the "Law Academy", promised to be intense. In the matches of the first two circles of the championship, "Prometey" was stronger than the opponent, but the match between the teams at the semi-final stage of the League Cup 2022 was much more revealing. That December match became a real highlight of the tournament and ended with the victory of the Dnipro team on a tie-break.
Today's confrontation was also exciting, although this time three sets were enough for "Prometey" to win overall. In the debut of the match, it was impossible to give someone an advantage. Only in the first half of the starting set, the scoreboard displayed equal numbers 8 times. Everything in this set was decided by the "Prometey" 4:0 rush for an equal score of 16:16. "+4" in favor of Andrii Levchenko's team was also recorded after the last rally of the set.
In the debut of the second set, "MHP-Vinnytsia" achieved a slight advantage - 5:3, 6:4. However, "Prometey" established its leadership very quickly after the ace of Vitalyi Shchytkov. One by one, the club from Dnipro began to pull away from its opponent already in the second half of the set. When the handicap of "Prometey" reached 5 points (21:16), in general, everything in this set became clear. For the second time in the match, "Prometey" was victorious with a score of 25:21.
The third set turned out to be less tense than the previous two. Even in its first half, the Dnipro team pulled away from the opponent by 4 points (11:7). The players of "MHP-Vinnytsia" tried to "stay in the game", but "Prometheus" did not lose the initiative and brought the match to a victorious end.
Dnipro got 42 points in the championship. "Epicenter-Podolyany", which has a match in reserve, has the same amount. "MHP-Vinnytsia" has 25 points and the third position in the tournament table.
