They fought like “lions”, but the Olympiakos girls bowed to Sabadell

The match:

The beginning of the match was balanced, with both teams missing, but also making mistakes in their first attacks. THE Sabadell opened the scoring in the 2nd minute with Giustini, at the same time when Olympiacos had bad and slow attacks with Eleftheriadou and Eleftheria Pleuritou. Nevertheless, Ioanna Stamatopoulou was excellent under the goalposts and with great interventions, including a penalty (!), she kept the “red and white” in the match. In the 7th minute, Christina Siuti scored on the man above for 1-1, before Casado answered the ‘caps’ for 2-1 which was also the score of the first eight minutes.

The start of the Greek team was dynamic second eight minutes, with Vasiliki Pleuritou and Maria Myriokephalitaki finding the net in the first 3 minutes, for first “red and white” lead in the final (2-3)! From the middle of the period until half-time, however, Dimitris Kravaritis’ team suffered unprecedented subsidence. Poor defensive returns allowed Sabadell to find four goals in as many consecutive attacks for 6-3, with Tricha temporarily cutting it to 6-4, before Sabadell closed out the eight at +3 (7-4) with a goal by Gonzales.

The brief stoppage of the first half, seemed to “awakens” the “red and white”, who entered the pool focused and determined for the upset. Playing excellent defense in the blocks, but also with Vasiliki Pleuritou and Ioanna Hyridioti scoring two amazing goals, Piraeus reduced to 7-6 in the first two minutes of the third quarter, but also to 8-7 in the middle of the period with another goal by V. Pleuritou.

And while everything showed that the momentum and psychology had turned towards Olympiakos, David Palma’s team put their foot on the “gas”, building big differences. Taking advantage of mistakes, but also of its quality Guistini and them Van der Slootthe Spanish women found five unanswered goals, blowing the lead at +6 for the 13-7 of the eighth minute.

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The eight minutes: 2-1, 7-4, 13-7, 16-10.

The compositions of the two teams:

Sabadell (David Palma): Esther Ramos, Matilde Ortiz, Leighton, Van der Sloot, Canning, Casado, Giustini, Garcia Godoy, Forca, Beatriz Ortiz, Jurado, Gonzalez Lopez, Carrasco.

Olympiacos (Dimitris Kravaritis): Stamatopoulou, Eleftheria Pleuritou, Hydirioti, Eleftheriadou, Tricha, Xenaki, Siouti, Margarita Pleuritou, Santa, Vasiliki Pleuritou, Drakotou, Myriokephalitaki, Nigro.