Olympiacos fought back and tied the series of Handball Premier finals with AEK!

He defended his seat and leveled it AEK (1-1) in her finals series Handball Premier o Olympic!

The “red and white” presented a very good competitive image for the longest period of the match and finally celebrated the victory with 28-24, having as their protagonist Olivier Niokas, who had a very good night and was the top scorer with 9 goals. AEK faced a lot of difficulties and found themselves behind by as much as -8 (23-15 and 24-16), they tried to make their counterattack in the last quarter, but all they managed to do was reduce it to 24-21 with a 5-1 run , finally knowing defeat.

Now, the two teams are renewing their appointment for the upcoming season Monday (22/5, 18:00)where they will face each other at the headquarters of AEK.

The match

The match started with Rogulski to open the scoring for AEK, before o Niokas equalize with a beautiful goal and Papadionisiou puts the guests in front again. Led by Niokas who reached three goals, Olympiacos took the lead for the first time in the final and took the lead with 4-2while the hosts took a four-goal lead for the first time (7-3), with goals by Dombri and Papavasilis.

THE AEK was held scoreless for 6.5 minutes, but after an Albano timeout, he responded, going on a 4-1 run to cut it to 8-7, thanks to his first goal Madalinitch in the evening. With two goals in a row Montoro“red and white” went ahead again with +3 (11-8), o Niokas scored for the fifth time in the first half for 12-9, while Slavulitsa gave Olympiacos its biggest lead of the match, setting up 15-10 before the two teams go to the locker room.

THE Olympic was superior at the start of the second half as well, going ahead 17-11 and 18-12, thanks to goals by Slavoulitsa and Papadopoulos. THE Papadionisiou continued to be the “number 1” threat to the home defense (he finished the game as AEK’s top scorer with 6 goals), scoring for the 18-13but Olympiacos responded with a 5-2 run, taking its biggest lead of the match (+8, 23-15).

The Union attempted its final counterattack in the last quarter and with him as the protagonist Lemos reduce to 24-21 and 25-22but Nikos Grammatikos’ team kept their cool, eventually celebrating the victory with 28-24.

The five minutes: 4-3, 6-3, 8-6, 10-8, 12-9, 15-10 (halftime), 17-12, 19-13, 21-14, 24-16, 24-20, 28-24

Olympiakos (Grammar): Kotanidis, Niokas 9, Karabourniotis 1, Papavasilis 1, Kandylas 1, Bayios 2, Papadopoulos 2, Dombris 3, Mpourze, Passias 1, Montoro 4, Slavoulitsa 2, Ostroutsko 1, Gratzan 1, Michaelidis, Bauer

AEK (Albanian): Matskevich, Arabatzis 3, Tick, Zivkovic 1, Madalinic 2, Nikolaidis, Tsepits, Iliopoulos 2, Papadionisiou 6, Liapis 1, Arsits, Sokolic 1, Tsitobi 1, Rogulski 1, Lemos 6, Kederis.