Against the team that forced them to their only defeat so far in the league, Panathinaikos was excellent (3-0 set) and only in the second set Aris was able to justify its good course this year and the character of the derby in the match.
In the first set, the service of Panathinaikos created many problems in the reception of Aris, which quickly lost contact with the score. At 9-7 Stepanenko took the change, Papafotiou went to the service and left when the score became 16-7. The visitors temporarily reduced to 16-11 with continuous mistakes of PAO, but the greens responded quickly for 21-11 and the easy 1-0.
The picture of the second set is completely different with Aris working much better in the first ball and both teams being close to the score until 15-15 which became 18-15 (again with Papafotiou in the service). Aris reduced with a match against Mercado (19-18) and equalized 21-21 (with a point from … defense of Evans), for PAO to reach +2 again (23-21 with an out by Mercado). At 23-22 Aris had a chance for a draw, but Kioutsiouki made a wrong pass and at 24-23 Hatziefstratiadou finished the set.
The greens escaped with 8-4 at the beginning of the third set with Aris reducing to 8-7 (ace Evans), however the answer of Panathinaikos came again from the service line. With Chatziefstratiadou this time the 9-8 became 15-8, to be judged there for the final match as Aris could not come back (the score reached 21-10) and where the match ended (25-15).
The sets: 3-0 (25-14, 25-23, 25-15) in 75 ‘
PANATHINAIKOS AO (Apostolos Oikonomou): Chatziefstratiadou 10 (6/12 ff., 2 aces, 2 blocks), Cross 14 (11/15 ff., 3 blocks), Stepanenko 3 (3/17 ff.), Grotesht 9 (8/17 ep., 1 ace, 92% min. – 58% excellent), Papafotiou 6 (3/4 ep., 2 aces, 1 block), Khantava 13 (13/28 ep., 58% min. – 38% excellent) / Roga (l, 75% yp – 38% excellent), Konstantinou, Tsitsigianni 3 (1/3 ff., 1 ace, 1 block).
MARS (Yiannis Tsairelis): Kioutsiouki 3 (1/2 ep., 1 ace, 1 block), Lappa, Mercado 14 (13/39 ep., 1 block), Drakoulidou 1 (1/3 ep.), Swan 6 (5 / 15 fps., 1 block, 36% yp. – 9% excellent), Evans 13 (12/28 ff., 1 ace, 50% yp – 42% excellent) / Kourtidou (l, 20% yp – 17 % excellent), Kampouri (l, 10% yp. – 10% excellent), Tani, Mylona 1 (1/2 ff.), Gaitanidou.
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