Apollon Smyrnis defeated Galatasaray 9-5 at Serafio in their first ever Challenger Cup men’s polo quarter-final and now need to defend that scoreline on February 8 in Istanbul to advance to the competition’s semi-finals.
The players of Nikos Deligiannis imposed their superiority at the start and took a 4-0 lead at the beginning of the second eight-minute period with the three goals of Gardikas.
The Turks fought back and, with two consecutive goals in the first minute of the third period, cut it to 5-3. The game became “closed” afterwards, with Stefanos Galanopoulos not conceding a goal in the last 11 minutes. So, despite losing a lot of attacks to the player above, the “light brigade” reached +4.
The eight minutes: 3-0, 2-1, 3-4, 1-0
APOLLON SMYRNIS (Nikos Deligiannis): Galanopoulos, Alamanos, Bogdanovich 1, Mokkas 2, Goniotakis, Diplaros, Braimis 1, Chondrokoukis 1, Vitskovich, Gardikas 3, Myrilos 1, Solanakis, Kavousanos
GALATASARAY (Mijat Mijatovic): Kiel, Atsar, Naipoglou, Tsolak 2, Caner, Gulends, Senemoglou, Destici 2, Demirel, Krstic 1, Turan, Akaya, Erkaplan
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