Milos’ epic qualification to the “golden” set

Epic of Milo. Neosmyrnios defeated Nantes in the “golden” set 15-13 in France after the home team’s 2-3 set in regular time of the match that tied the score of the first match at the “Persian Cross” last Thursday for the men’s CEV Cup quarter-finals men’s volleyball and qualified for the semi-finals of the second-tier European club competition for the first time in their history, now having to face the third-placed teams in the Champions League groups.

Milonas had four chances to take the match with 3-2 sets in regular time. Despite losing the fifth set, Sakis Psarra’s players, with protagonist and MVP of the match Boyan Yordanov, took the “golden” set 15-13, even though the French twice invoked the video check in the final.

Fluctuation:

1st set: 8-5, 16-13, 21-15, 25-18

2nd set: 8-6, 16-13, 20-21, 22-25

3rd set: 8-7, 13-16, 17-21, 23-25

4th set: 8-5, 16-12, 21-15, 25-20

5th set: 5-4, 10-9, 12-11, 19-17

Gold set: 13-15

*Nand’s points came from 10 aces, 70 attacks (44% efficiency), 13 blocks and 24 opponent errors (20 misses) and Milos’ points came from 2 aces, 69 attacks (43% efficiency), 13 blocks and 30 errors opponents (19 lost serves).

The sets: 25-18, 22-25, 23-25, 25-20, 19-17 (“Gold” set: 13-15)

NAND (Hubert Hénot): Champoiseau 6 (3/5 ref., 2 aces, 1 block), Eno 18 (14/31 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks, 42% sub. – 37% excellent), Magnin 4 (2/8 ref., 2 blocks), Da Silva 16 (11/21 ff., 2 aces, 3 blocks), Neves 25 (21/54 ff., 1 ace, 3 blocks), Lopez 14 (12/29 ff., 2 aces, 61% sub – 54% excellent) / Massimino (l, 66% sub – 53% excellent), Wedge 8 (5/9 fr., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Lemieux, Bono 1 (1/1 fr. )

MILON (Sakis Psarras): Charalambidis 13 (8/14 ref., 5 blocks), Bassis 6 (5/9 ref., 1 ace), Yordanov 23 (22/57 ref., 1 block), Polouyan 8 (8/24 ref., 36% sub. – 20% excellent), Molina 10 (8/24 ff., 2 blocks, 36% sub. – 20% excellent), Xer 2 (2 blocks) / Chandrinos (l, 44% sub. – 33% excellent) , Theodosis 4 (3/5 ff., 1 block), Kontostathis, Nanopoulos 18 (16/27 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 50% sub.-50% excellent)