Panathinaikos also chewed irons and Olympiacos made an appointment with AEK!

His return to Women’s Volleyball Cup final after five years, he is celebrating from Friday night (03/08) o Olympic!

The “red and white” of Lorenzo Micelli… chewed irons in defense and thanks to their excellent block, but also the Militsa Koumboura who was in a terrible executive night with 26 points, prevailed with a 3-1 set reversal (23-25, 25-22, 25-19, 25-14) of Panathinaikos, in the second semi-final of the 17th Final 4!

Somehow, on Sunday night (10/03, 20:15) at the closed “Georgios Galanopoulos” in Loutraki, Olympiacos will claim the His 10th title in the institution against the trophy winner AEK, which earlier excluded him Ari with 3-0 sets.

The match:

THE Panathinaikos entered much more read and focused on the match, with the “greens” getting off to an excellent start and building early big differences in the first set. Taking advantage of his many and accumulated mistakes Olympiakouthe team of Yannis Kalmazidis escaped quickly with +5 (2-7), while a little later, with points from Atkinson, Genitsaridis and Karkases, he went to +6 for the 5-11.

With a quick run, the “red and white” reduced to 3 (8-11), with typically the visitors improving their block and spearheading Atkison to go again at +6 (13-19). Her competitive rise Mleinkova and her Bunchallowed the “red and white” to return to claim the set and reduce to point (23-24), before Actinson with a diagonal nail, “gave away” the first set in the “clover” (23-25).

With Samanda racking up points in the first year, o Panathinaikos led 2-3 and 4-6 early of the second set. Since then, the “red and white” equalized the game with them as well Mleinkova, Koumbura and Nizetich, they found points from attacks and blocks, making the match point-to-point. In fact, with a point from Fariol, but also with the double block afterwards, Olympiacos took the lead with 11-10to his first lead of the night!

Atkinson and Karkases took Panathinaikos on their backs for overtaking (12-14)before Olympiacos reacted again and with Koumboura and Mleinkova promoted, took the lead with 17-15. From that point on, the two teams went hand in hand, with his team Lorenzo Micelli to prevail in the points and thanks to her good block, to conquer the second set with 25-22equalizing at 1-1!

With the Olympiakos block functioning and performing to a high standard at the beginning of the third period, the “red and whites” forced Panathinaikos into easy mistakes, resulting in a 7-4 lead. Somewhere there, however, three accumulated mistakes by the typically home team in the next four attacks, allowed the “greens” to go ahead (7-8). Koumboura and Mleinkova aggressively “unstuck” Olympiakos, who gradually improved his efficiency in attack and combined with his solid block, went to the first at +5 for 20-15.

Yes, with her Nizetich taking advantage of the “green” mistakes near the net and turning them into points, the “red and white” increased the difference to +7 (23-16), finally winning the third set for the in favor of them 2-1 with a score of 25-19 with Nizetich’s terrible placement over the double block.

After the reversal in the score, o Olympic entered the fourth set the psychology at the height and with the Bunch in… the twilight zone! The 28-year-old Serbian diagonally was excellent in the first part of the set and with five personal points, she led the “red and white” team – along with Nezetich, of course – at +10 and 16-6! It was clear that Panathinaikos had lost its “clean” mind, with its defense not playing at the levels it was in the first three sets. With Mleinkova finding some points against the opposing defense, and Koumboura continuing… unscathed, Olympiacos comfortably maintained the big margin in their favor until the final, taking the third set and the victory with score 25-14.

The sets: 23-25, 25-22, 25-19, 25-14.