AEK dethroned Panathinaikos and was crowned cup winner for the first time in its history!

AEK returned to the titles by dethroning Panathinaikos! “Union” with a terrible performance in the final of Arta prevailed 3-1 set and conquered for the first time in its history the Greek Cup in a fantastic finale!

Terrible variation in the match with the Nizetich to perform magnificently, having Calderon and Silva as worthy supporters. THE Ahh kept Panathinaikos in the match, with Anthoulis participating enough but failing in critical attacks.

The match

The first set started with AEK breaking the Panathinaikos block, with first “violins” Silva and Nizetich. The “greens” took the lead with their players Otsal to react immediately by constantly bringing the match to a draw. In fact, the doubles managed to bring the difference to +4 forcing the “Union” coach to call a time-out. From there on AEK monopolized the interest and with a terrible streak they took the lead with 5 making it 16-21. Panathinaikos tried to “erase” AEK’s set bowls with successive attempts by Anthoulis, reducing to 24-21, but the “yellow and black” reached the 25-21 for 0-1 in sets.

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His image is different second set with Panathinaikos finding answers in the AEK block. The “greens” saw her Ahh to have a terrific match and help in all areas giving his team an early five-point lead Yannis Kalmazidis. On the other hand, both the reception and the block of AEK did not move at the same levels as in the first set, as a result of which the difference escaped to 9 and ended with the maximum difference of 11 points for 25-14 and 1-1 of Panathinaikos in the final.

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AEK’s start to the third set was explosive with Calderon and Silva taking advantage of Panathinaikos’ mistakes to bring the score to 6-1 forcing Yiannis Kalmazidis to hastily call a timeout. The continuation was similar with the “greens” falling on a shocking Calderon who with three consecutive points brought the score to 12-6. However, Panathinaikos reacted and managed to reach the point difference (17-16). Despite this, the AEK players with Calderon and Silva being flawless in the most critical attacks of the set managed to reach the difference to five (23-18) taking a clear lead. The players of Yannis Kalmazidis tried to turn it around but failed to do so and “Union” took the lead again in the final with 25-20.

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It turned into a big derby fourth set with the players of AEK and Panathinaikos giving terrible battles above the net. THE “Join” found answers to the good serves of Hatziefstratiadou and Anae and managed to take a five-point lead with the fantastic Nizetić destroying the “green” reception. Yiannis Kalmazidis called a time-out and with the return to the taraflex the Panathinaikos players reacted by reducing to a point (17-16). However, from that point onwards the Silva took action and with three consecutive points made the score 21-17 at the moment when Anthoulis with two wrong attacks gave the match point to AEK and Nizetic finished the final 25-20 and the 3-1 in the sets.

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The sets: 21-23, 25-14, 20-25, 20-25

Here are the final stats…

Watch the progress of the match from the match center of sport-fm.gr