Dominant Olympiacos, defeated Panathinaikos away from home, embracing the title of champion in Women’s Volleyball League!
After last Saturday’s victory at “Melina Merkouri”, the “red and white” overcame their “eternal” rival and in Metz’s closed game (3-1), making it 2-0 in the series of finals and now wanting to do it. .. last step to win the title at home, next Saturday (20/4, 19:00)!
The second final started with neither team being able to escape the score and with Olympiacos leading 7-5 and with the “greens” reducing it to 7-6 with a penalty Carcases. At that point the “red and white” improved their performance and went on a 6-1 run for the 7-12but the hosts found a way to react, at 11-12 with consecutive successful blocks and her ace Grothes. THE Olympic maintained his small lead until the favor at 18-19, when with consecutive good serves he reached 25-19 for 1-0!
The second set started with an ace by Emmanuilidou and Olympiacos taking advantage of the momentum, taking a 4-1 and 5-2 lead. THE Panathinaikos react and equalize to 5-5 with a club and her ace Samandanthe visitors took a two-point lead again (7-9), while the “greens” went ahead for the first time with 10-9after a violation of three meters by the Bunch. The two teams went hand-in-hand in the score from there on, until Panathinaikos made a 5-0 run for 20-15 and reached the 25-18 with points from Grothes, Samandan and Karkases, tying at 1-1!
Olympiacos imposed its rhythm from the beginning of the third set and with her as the protagonist Mleinkova led 8-2, while with Samandan, Nizetich and an ace from Kumbura, the “red and white” led with 11-5. In fact, later in the set they maintained their “safety” difference, until the reaction of Panathinaikos came, which reduced to 20-21 with an ace from Karkases and 21-22 with Atkinson’s point. Finally and after Karkases reduced to 23-24, Koumboura came to shape the 23-25 and the 2-1 in favor of Olympiakos in the sets.
Impressive start of Olympiakos in the fourth set, with the Nizetich in service preceded by 7-0, while Panathinaikos lost to 9-5, but without managing to take control of the match from their opponents. Thus, Olympiacos reached the 18-8 and finally arrived comfortably at 25-15finishing the match perfectly and making it 2-0 in the finals series.
The sets: 19-25, 25-18, 23-25, 15-25
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