Olympiacos defeated AEK 3-1 in the indoor Olympiakos Chorio in the top derby of the eighth game of the Volley League, forced them to their first defeat in this year’s championship, while at the same time reducing, together with Panathinaikos, to -1 from the “yellow and black in second place and set the championship on fire.
Koumboura led Olympiakos with 29 points, with Nizetich scoring 14 in the opener against her former team.
For AEK, Strantzali had 16 and Nikolova 14 points.
In the fourth set, Olympiacos led 12-4, but AEK, taking advantage of their opponent’s mistakes, went down 15-16. In the final, a net by Kalandatze, a block by Mleinkova on Nikolova and the attack by Koumbura made it 22-25 and 1-3.
Fluctuation:
1st set: 3-8, 16-15, 20-21, 22-25
2nd set: 8-7, 15-16, 21-20, 25-23
3rd set: 6-8, 9-16, 14-21, 18-25
4th set: 4-8, 12-16, 19-21, 22-25
*AEK’s points came from 3 aces, 49 attacks, 8 blocks and 27 opponent errors and Olympiacos’ points came from 6 aces, 53 attacks, 14 blocks and 25 opponent errors.
The sets: 22-25, 25-23, 18-25, 22-25 in 107′
AEK (Younus Ocal): Giota 2 (1/3 ref., 1 block), Strandzali 16 (14/35 ref., 2 blocks, 59% sub. – 29% excellent), Konstantinidou 4 (1/3 ref., 1 ace, 2 blocks) , Paskova 7 (6/18 ff., 1 block, 57% sub. – 29% excellent), Blanco 6 (6/16 ff.), Nikolova 14 (13/36 ff., 1 ace) / Kosmas (l, 71% sub. – 36% excellent), Xintara (l, 67% sub. – 67% excellent), Gryllaki, Kalandatze 6 (3/6 ref., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Calderon 5 (5/14 ref. , 20% sub. – 20% excellent), Xanthopoulou
OLYMPIAN (Lorenzo Micelli): Nizetich 14 (11/29 ff., 2 aces, 1 block, 78% sub. – 30% excellent), Carraro 6 (2/3 ff., 2 aces, 2 blocks), Lambrousi 4 (2/8 ff., 2 blocks), Emmanuilidou 9 (7/9 ref., 1 ace, 1 block), Koumboura 29 (24/50 ref., 1 ace, 4 blocks), Mleinkova 11 (7/33 ref., 4 blocks, 57% sub. – 14% excellent) / Artakianou (l, 62% sub. – 24% excellent), Tsitsigianni, Tanis
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