One “breath” away from the 16 best teams of the Challenge Cup is Olympiacos. The “red and white” defeated Marina Kastela 3-0 in “Melina Merkouri” for the “32” of the tournament and need two sets in the rematch in Croatia next Wednesday to get the “ticket”.
Olympiacos pressed on serve and with an excellent 31% reception finished the game with 55% attack efficiency (47/85 completed), with Abderrahim finishing the game with 19 points on 16/22 completed attacks and three aces.
The first scorer of the “red and white” was Koumboura with 20 points.
Fluctuation:
1st set: 7-8, 16-15, 21-18, 25-19
2nd set: 8-5, 16-12, 21-15, 25-21
3rd set: 8-2, 16-5, 21-7, 25-7
*Olympiakos’ points came from 6 aces, 47 attacks, 5 blocks and 17 opponent errors and Sevilla’s came from 2 aces, 26 attacks, 5 blocks and 14 opponent errors.
The sets: 25-19, 25-21, 25-7 in 52′
OLYMPIAN (Lorenzo Micelli): Nizetich 6 (4/15 ref., 1 ace, 1 block, 86% sub. – 57% excellent), Emmanuelidou 8 (4/6 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks), Fariol 2 (2/5 ref.) , Koumboura 20 (19/30 ref., 1 block), Abderrahim 19 (16/22 ref., 3 aces, 53% sub. – 40% excellent), Di Iulius 1 (1 block) / Artakianou (l, 44% sub. – 11% excellent), Sampati (l), Kalandatze 1 (1/6 ff.), Fakopoulidou, Dimitriou 1 (1/1 ff.), Zafiriou.
MARINA CASTLE (Goran Zahoura): Rosso 1 (1 block), Franzetic 3 (3/18 ref., 29% sub. – 14% excellent), Gilfillan 13 (8/14 ref., 2 aces, 3 blocks), Zahic 4 (3/11 ref. , 1 block), Becic 9 (9/25 ff., 53% sub. – 26% excellent) / Zupanic (l, 46% sub. – 29% excellent), Terze (l), Tsubelic 1 (1/4 ff. .), Jokic 2 (2/8 ff.), Popic
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