Men's Super League-Budinvest
6th round. 2 match.
Chernivtsi. SC "Malenkyi Paryzh". December 8.
VC "Zhytichi-Polissia" - VC "MHP-Vinnytsia" - 2:3 (15:25, 25:18, 25:19, 23:25, 12:15).
VC "Zhytichi-Polyssya": Vitalii Bondar (22 ochky), Mykola Kuranov (3), Mykola Rudnytskyi (11), Mykyta Luban (10), Bohdan Onipko (13), Andrii Orobko (8), Anatolii Khvasta (L) - starting line-up; Roman Kalatynets (0).
VC "MHP-Vinnytsia": Danylo Uryvkin (19), Ruslan Osypenko (8), Andrii Stebletskyi (11), Serhii Mishchenko (13), Bohdan Tatarenko (16), Stanislav Velychko (5), Yaroslav Pampushko (L) - starting line-up; Oleksandr Lukianets (1), Mykhailo Yakushenko (0), Viktor Ivashchenko (0).
The evening match, in which "Zhytichi-Polissia" from Zhytomyr and "MHP-Vinnytsia" from Trostyanets came to the "Malenkyi Paryzh" court, closed the program of the starting day of the 6th round of the Super League-Budinvest. In this confrontation, as in the opening match of the tour, a tense and exciting struggle was expected. Two points spoke in favor of this at once. Firstly, before this match, both teams scored the same number of points in the championship - 18, and secondly, in the first round, five games were needed to determine the strongest ("Zhytichi-Polissia").
Today, the opponents are also destined to play the maximum number of games. The team from Trostianets started the match stronger - 4:1, 9:6. Kostyantyn Ryabukha's team continued to act inspired. Their handicap immediately reached 12 points (21:9), after which the fate of the set was practically decided. "MHP-Vinnytsia" without much effort brought the set to a logical conclusion - 25:15 in its favor.
"Zhytichi-Polissia" needed a drastic strengthening of the game. The people of Zhytomyr did it completely in the second set. At first, they were able to achieve a more or less comfortable starting advantage (9:6, 13:9), and in the second half of the set, they did not lose the initiative, confidently equalizing the score in the match (1:1).
After a 10-minute break, the head coach of "Zhytichi-Polissia" Serhii Tereykovskiy took a time-out after three draws, as they were behind the opponent. Tereykovsky's team, after adjusting their actions, answered the opponent with a 4:0 run. There were still sharp plot twists at the party. At the equator of the set, Zhytomyr lost "-4" (8:12), but then made a powerful 7:0 run. It was this spurt of "Zhytichi-Polissia" that determined the victory of the team in the game - 25:19.
In the fourth set, only on its equator, one of the teams ("MHP-Vinnytsia"), after a long even stretch, managed to pull away to a more or less comfortable distance of 4 points (13:9). In response, Zhytomyr twice reduced their deficit to a minimum (13:14, 17:18), and then not only overtook the opponent but also took the lead (20:19). And yet, the last word in this exciting set remained with "MHP-Vinnytsia" - 25:23 in its favor.
Kostiantyn Ryabukha's team started the decisive set better than the opponent - 3:0, 6:1. For a short game, this was a significant advantage, but Zhytomyr players were stronger in the next three consecutive draws and their gap became less critical. To the credit of "MHP-Vinnytsia", the team continued to lead throughout the set and eventually managed to take revenge on the opponent for the defeat in the first circle with the same score of 3:2.
