A1 Women’s Polo: Alimos threatens Olympiakos’ five-and-a-half-year unbeaten run

The great game between Brine and him Olympic tonight (21:45) stands out in the schedule of the second round of A1 Women’s polo.

The home team, which has been greatly strengthened and has acquired, among others, two former red and white players, the Ioanna Stamatopoulou and her Ioanna Hydriotiswelcomes the female champions and threatens to end a terrific undefeated streak.

The last defeat of the “red and white” occurred on 11/5/2019in the third final of the playoffs that year, when Vouliagmeni “beat” Piraeus 8-6 on penalties. Almost five and a half years have passed since then, while Alimos has a clearly better game pace, having competed in the Champions League qualifiers, while Olympiacos is still looking for homogeneity having played only one serious official game, the Super Cup against Ethnikos.

Tonight’s derby will be a dress rehearsal for the two teams ahead of their next – and clearly more important in terms of points – clash, in the Champions League group stage, scheduled for Saturday, October 26.

From the rest of the games of the 2nd matchday, which take place on Saturday 19/10, the match between Ethnikos and Vouliagmeni in Piraeus stands out. NOB is certainly the favorite against the weakened Greek cup holders, who, however, want to show a good face, as they did in the Super Cup match against Olympiakos, and clearly improved compared to the premiere of the championship, where the “blue and white” got to know a lot heavy home defeat (16-5) by Alimos. PAOK is betting on the strength of its home ground to look for a surprise against Glyfada, Panionios is not expected to face any problems in Chios against the newcomers PEKEV, while Rethymnon and Chania clash at their common home, with the newcomers being typically home. Finally, Ilioupoli hosts AEK, in a game against the backdrop of the battle to stay in the division.

The program of the 2nd matchday in A1 women’s water polo:

FRIDAY 18/10

Alimos 21:45 Alimos-Olympiakos (Boudramis, Birakis)

SATURDAY 10/19

“P. Kapagerov” 15:00 Ethnikis-Vouliagmeni (Moiralis, Markovics)

Posidonio 15:00 PAOK-Glyfada (K. Kyranis, Hatzigoulas)

Chania 16:00 Rethymno-Chania (Markopoulou, Vosikas)

Ionian 18:30 PEKEV-Panionios (Red, Chronopoulos)

Ilioupolis 19:00 Ilioupoli-AEK (Daskalopoulou, Michailidou)

RATING (In 1 match)

TERM B.

Olympiacos 29-4 3

Vyliagmeni 25-3 3

Glyfada 21-8 3

Alimos 16-5 3

Panionios 20-13 3

Chania 12-6 3

PEKEV 6-12 0

PAOK 13-20 0

National 5-16 0

Ilioupoli 8-21 0

Rethymno 3-25 0

AEK 4-29 0