Dinamo (Sosnovy Bor) defeated Kuzbass 2:3 (25:20, 23:25, 25:21, 22:25, 11:15) as a guest in a match from the 27th round of the Super League.
The white-blues recorded a third consecutive victory and accumulated 45 points. The team occupies 7th place in the league standings.
Kuzbass is in 9th position with 35 points.
National player Asparuh Asparuhov played the first three games and finished with 5 points (33% reception and 31% in attack).
Before the match in Kemerovo, the club from Sosnovy Bor achieved two consecutive victories: Alexander Klimkin's team defeated Yenisei at home in a tie-break, and a round before that, in four games, they prevailed over Belogorie in Tula.
In the 26th round, Kuzbass defeated Fakel Yamal as a guest in five games. This victory was the tenth in the regular season for the team from Kemerovo. With the point earned, Kuzbass continues to be in 9th place in the standings.
In the next round, the team from Kemerovo will play in Novosibirsk on February 26 against Plamen Konstantinov's team, and on March 2, they will hold their last home game of the regular season against Dinamo-Ural (Ufa). Kuzbass will finish the regular season in Tula, where they will play with Belogorie on March 7.
After the end of the preliminary phase, the first four teams will qualify for the quarterfinals. And clubs ranked from 5th to 12th will play a qualifying round up to two victories, if necessary with a "golden" game, to qualify for the 1/4 finals of the playoffs.
Match statisticshere