With weapon his terrible block which made him sovereign, the Panathinaikos “Conquered” “Melina Mercouri” (3-1 set), got a great double from the “eternal” opponent, broke the undefeated of Olympic and went up to peak of the Volley League!
Despite the fact that Andreopoulos’s team was back in the sets with 1-0, they managed to reverse the score and now with the final of the first round it reaches 18 points, Piraeus remains at 17 and PAOK at 16, which shows that everything will be judged on the thread!
The match
The first set started with the two teams constantly alternating in scoring. After 12-12 where they went together, the “red and whites” played a terrible game and opened the difference to +4 (17-13). The many mistakes of the “clover” from that point on, allowed the team of Kazazis to reach easily at 1-0 (25-20).
The “red and whites” started terribly second set and early on they built a difference of +4 (10-6). Somewhere there Andreopoulos was forced to call a timeout and the “greens” woke up! With a series of five points, they went ahead and threatened the hosts for the first time. Kazazis’ team went ahead again, showing that it has the rhythm. From 20-18, Panathinaikos went to 20-21 and with terrible blows tied at 1-1 (21-25)!
In the third set there was only one protagonist and that was Panathinaikos. From 4-5, the “greens” reached 4-10 with the difference constantly growing and reaching elusive levels for Olympiakos, since the players of Andreopoulos and especially Rangel and Stalekar, “everything came out”. In 11-21 there was a break of 10 ‘after two objects fell on the field, with guests easily completing 1-2 (14-25).
The rhythm was clearly in favor of Panathinaikos, since from the beginning fourth set went to +3 (3-6). Olympiacos could not react, and the difference was growing (7-14). Piraeus fought it twice (12-16, 21-23), but the impenetrable block of the “clover” in combination with terrible Protopsaltis, they gave him the victory with 3-1 (21-25).
The sets: 1-3 (25-20, 21-25, 14-25, 21-25) at 116 ‘
OLYMPIAKOS S.F.P. (Dimitris Kazazis): Pagenk 9 (6/12 ep., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Stivachtis 3 (1/2 ep., 1 ace, 1 block), Mijailovic 6 (5/20 ep., 1 ace, 50 % min. – 33% excellent), Englescals 14 (13/33 ff., 1 ace), Zoupani 6 (4/5 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Peric 13 (12/24 ff., 1 ace, 45% sub – 25% excellent) / Zisis (l, 50% sub – 42% excellent), Charalambidis 1 (1/1 ff.), Andreadis 1 (1/2 ff.), Kasambalis, Dalakouras 2 (1 / 3 et seq., 1 ace, 71% min. – 57% excellent), Ephraimidis 1 (1/3 et seq.).
PANATHINAIKOS A.O. (Dimitris Andreopoulos): Protopsaltis 14 (14/30 ff., 33% min. – 22% excellent), Jacobsen 4 (1/1 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Rangel 16 (10/16 ff., 6 block), Tailor 2 (2/5 ep., 60% min. – 20% excellent), Van de Dries 11 (9/25 ep., 2 blocks), Stalecar 9 (3/8 ep., 1 ace, 5 block) / Garas (l, 54% sub – 27% excellent), Bassis 1 (1 ace), Andreopoulos 8 (8/14 ff., 36% sub – 21% excellent).
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