THE Panathinaikos found it dark in the empty, closed Agios Thomas, due to punishment, however, even though he found himself losing 2-1 sets to Finika Syrosraised his performance thereafter and prevailed 3-2returning to hits.
The visitors showed their mood from the first set by taking a 7-4 lead, but the champions first tied it at 10-10 and then at 11-11, to take the lead with a 5-0 run. The Syrians came back and got to 22-22, but they did not avoid defeat with 25-23.
In the second set, Phoenix came out better and had the lead from the start (7-5), eventually making it 1-1 with scores 25-22while in the third the visitors had an even bigger lead (14-9 and then 19-14) finally reaching the upset with 25-19.
Panathinaikos started badly in the fourth set as well and found itself behind 5-1, but then reacted and reached the point of leading with a double score, 20-10. 2-2 finally came with the impressive 25-11.
The match was thus decided in the tie break, with the “greens” being excellent and winning 15-5completing the reversal.
The sets: 25-23, 22-25, 19-25, 25-11, 15-5
The variance
1st set: 7-8, 16-11, 21-19, 25-23
2nd set: 7-8, 14-16, 18-21, 22-25
3rd set: 6-8, 13-16, 16-21, 19-25
4th set: 7-8, 16-10, 21-10, 25-11
5th set: 5-1, 10-3, 12-3, 15-5
Panathinaikos (D. Andreopoulos): Kovar 10 (6/17 ff., 3 aces, 1 block, 75% sub. – 42% excellent), Petraeus 5 (3/10 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Jacobsen 5 (3/5 ff., 2 blocks), Rangel 13 (10/15 ref., 3 blocks), Frankos 17 (11/25 ref., 3 aces, 3 blocks, 61% sub. – 39% excellent), Hernandez 30 (25/46 ref. , 1 ace, 4 blocks) / Kostopoulos (l, 55% sub. – 32% excellent), Georgiou, Bassis.
Finikas Syros (District of Kazazis): Michalovic 18 (17/37 f., 1 block), Charalambidis 8 (7/11 f., 1 block), Ierethuelo 3 (3/5 f.), Klinkenberg 10 (10/23 f., 53% f. – 26% excellent), Djuric 11 (4/8 ref., 7 blocks), Fromm 13 (12/29 ref., 1 ace, 59% sub. – 24% excellent) / Konstantinidis (l, 41% sub. – 19 % excellent), Sonakis (l), Papalexiou, Galiotos, Roumeliotakis, Manolakis, Papadopoulos.
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