On April 11, a series of the most important matches of the Men's Super League-Budinvest 2022-2023 will begin in Chernivtsi - matches for gold and bronze awards!
According to the regulations of the current season, the final matches are held from five games to 3 victories.
"Epicenter-Podolyany" - VC "Prometey"
This year, "Epicentr-Podolanyi" from Horodok and Dnipro club "Prometey" will fight for the title of the country's champion.
In the season, these teams have already met four times: three times in the regular season and in the final of the League Cup 2022. The winner of all meetings was "Epicenter-Podolyany" (3:0, 3:1, 3:2, 3:2).
The previous matches caused quite a stir among fans of Ukrainian volleyball and for a reason, because both teams are staffed by experienced athletes and players of the national team of Ukraine!
Heorhii Klepko, a middle blocker of VC "Prometey": "A good opponent with whom, I hope, we can find our own game. It all depends on who is in the mood! The one who will fight more for every ball will win!”
Yevhenii Kisiliuk, outside hitter of "Epicenter-Podolyany": "The final will be interesting. Both, our team and "Prometey", are quite balanced. There are a number of players from the bench who can help as well. Very interesting games await us!”
Final
April 11 (Tuesday)
19:00 "Epicenter-Podolyany" - VC "Prometey"
April 13 (Thursday)
19:00 VC "Prometey" - "Epicenter-Podolyany"
VC "Zhytichi-Polissia" - VSC "Law Academy"
The team from Kharkiv VSC "Law Academy" and Zhytomyr club "Zhytichi-Polissia" will compete for bronze awards.
In the 2022-2023 season, the teams played against each other three times: the first meeting was won by the Zhytomyr team (3:1), and the last two ended in favor of the Kharkiv team.
But in the 2020-2021 season, the teams of Serhii Kovalenko and Serhii Tereykovsky already met in the so-called "bronze" final! Then the teams needed four matches to find out who is worthy of third place in the championship of Ukraine. The hosts won the first meeting in Zhytomyr (3:0), the next day the "lawyers" were stronger in the tie-break (3:2), and in a week they won two decisive matches in Kharkiv (3:1, 3:0). As a result, two years ago, the "Bronze" was tried on by "Law Academy". Let's see how it will be this time.
Volodymyr Yablonskyi, outside hitter of "Zhytichi-Polissia" VC: "This is not the first time we will play with "Law Academy" for bronze awards. We really want to give a decent fight and take revenge for the past defeat!"
Matches for third place
April 12 (Wednesday)
19:00 VC "Zhytichi-Polissia" - VSC "Law Academy"
April 14 (Friday)
19:00 VSC "Law Academy" - VC "Zhytichi-Polissia"
All matches are played without spectators in the city of Chernivtsi ("PVLU" arena). Watch online game broadcasts on the Divisport Volleyball Youtube channel.
