Dominant Olympiakos, cleaned the rookie Apollo and lifted the 7th series and 25th Cup in its history!

His… scepter in the Greek Polo Men’s Cup for the seventh consecutive season was retained by Olympic!

Putting on a dominating performance throughout the match, the “red and white” prevailed 16-8 against Apollon Smyrna in the grand final of Stoiximan Final 8 in Laimos Vouliagmeni, thus conquering it 25th Cup in their history in 32 appearances in finals!

With the exception of the first quarter, Neosmyrniotes, in their maiden appearance in the final of the competition, could not keep up with the pace of Piraeus, who through their good defense, found several goals in the open field!

The first scorer for the winners was Takis Dimos with 4 goals, with them Gilla, Vamos and Genidounia to follow with two.

So somehow, Olympiacos continued it incredible tradition he has in the institution of the Cup, winning the 10th title in the last eleven years, but also t17th in 19 most recent finals!

The match:

The game was quite balanced in the first minutes of the final, with its good and pressing defense Apollo to drive him Olympic in two wrong attacks at the beginning of the match. However, the “red and white” were the ones who opened the scoring with him Goofy from two meters in a forward position, with Neosmyrniotes responding with Solonakis to the player above for the 1-1. In the middle of the eight minute, o Genidounias with a beautiful goal he put Olympiakos back in front, before the typical home side again took advantage of the extra man to equalize with Sushisvili. In fact, a little later, the Chondrokoukis with a fantastic long shot he put Apollon in front of the score for the first time, with Genidounias equalizing in the 6th minute from the penalty spot for the 3-3 of the eight minute.

In the second eight minutes the excellent defense of Olympiakos it was she who made the big difference, tipping the scales in favor of Hrvoge Kolianin’s players. And that’s because the Piraeus team, with a defense made of… steel, kept Apollon “ballless” for almost 8 minutes, since for the Neosmyrnio team, the only goal they scored in the period came at 4.8” before halftime with a Bogdanovic penalty.

In the interim, Olympiakos’ blocks and steals worked exceptionally well, with then attack by Piraeus throwing “fires” and run a 5-0 run thanks to goals of Alafragki, Dervisi, Gilla, Fundoulis and Dimos, with which the typical visitors even led by 8-3.

In his very first attack third quarterOlympiacos raised the score again at +5 for 9-4 with his beautiful finish Marton Vamos, with the Hungarian not long after, his second personal goal of the match making it 10-5, before Gillas leveled the scores shortly after midway through the period at +6 (5-11) with a goal on the counter attack from Papanastasiou’s assist. Somewhere in there, the pace dropped quite a bit, with both teams having enough missed shots and errors in their decisions. In fact, the team of Nikos Deligiannis twice wasted a situation with an extra player, finally finding the goal just before the end of the period with Goniotaki in situation with two more players (6-11)!

So, the people of Piraeus entered the fourth and last eight minutes with a significant safety “cushion” on the way to winning the trophy. All Apollo could do was temporarily reduce the lead to 12-8 in the first three minutes of the period, before Olympiacos took advantage of the frustration, but also the spaces left by the opposing team, finding easy goals on the counter attack. for the final 16-8!

The eight minutes: 3-3, 4-8, 6-11, 8-16.