A huge qualifying lead in the quarter -finals of this year’s CEV Champions League took on Wednesday night (12/02) Olympic!
Although he found them … dark at the start of the race and lost the first set, the “reds” did not … chew, played very good volleyball from time to time and left with great double from western France and his estuary a little bit in the Atlantic ocean, prevailing me 3-1 set (25-20, 20-25, 21-25, 23-25) by St. Nazarin the first game for the playoffs of the event!
Top for the Greek dumbbells was the Atanasjevic with 19 points and awesome last set, with their Perin and Koumentaki to follow with 14 and 9 points respectively, the time where the Payenk and Juric They did a good job in defense. For the France champions, Kanham stood out with 20 points.
We remind you that the rematch Between the two groups will be held Thursday (27/2, 19:00) In Rentis and Melina Mercouri, with the Piraeus team needing two sets to celebrate the qualification, otherwise, in the event of a 3-1 defeat the match will go to the “golden set”.
The couple’s winner to face the quarter -finals the Jastrebsky Vegel From Poland, which was the finalist of the last two CEV Champions League.
The match:
THE Olympic He got somewhat numb and sluggish in the match, so he was chasing the score from the beginning of the first set. Making several mistakes in his attack, in combination with Mendez’s gathered points, Cents Nazar preceded with 14-10at a time when the “reds” had received half of their faults in opponents’ service. The French continued to dominate the traffle and with the Ale and Mentes reached up to +6 (17-11). Somewhere there came a small “red -white” outburst that thanks to its excellent service Juric and his points Atanasiyevicthe Greek team reduced at 20-18. Somewhere there, it was the defense that hurt Piraeus with the French finding easy points, both nails and aces, thus conquering the First set with a score of 25-20.
Much more balanced was the second set, With Andrea Gardini’s team gradually raising its performance at blockbut also to socketsin which he had a hard time in the first part. Both teams were near the score, with the hosts maintaining a small lead of 1-2 points up to 10-8. From that point on, the Piraeus began reminiscent of the team we admire this season, improving their image dramatically. With the “reds” erect … Wall in front of the friend with Pagenk and Juric dominating Perin, Atanasijvic and Koumenaki finding scoring with the loud blows and many times their smart strikes, Olympiacos not only overthrew the score. , but also reached +5 for 15-20 and 17-22, Equal to the set of Antasjevic’s awesome nail for 25-20!
With the ally of psychology, the Greek dumbbells entered the third set at a speed. With them Travica and Payenk To raise their performance and get firmly in the equation of the match, Olympiacos built significant differences early on. With them Atanasjevic and Koumentaki to get points from the diagonal, the Piraeus was easily maintained One +4, up to 15-11. Somewhere there, an outburst of the French, in combination with some bad defenses of Olympiacos, allowed the hosts to run one 5-0 series for overtaking and 16-15. The voices of the … furious guard woke up for their good players, with Atanasigevic, Koumenaki and Travitsa running a 4-0 “red-whites” For 19-16! The two errors of St. Nazar in her service, but also his equal points Perinthey wrote 23-19, with Olympiacos having Conquer the set with 25-21 and make it 2-1!
In the fourth set, the Greek team was … 2 steps above the French, with Atanasigevic getting fire and getting a lot of points. In their last attempt to get back into the match, the hosts tied to 19-19 and 20-20, Atanasigevic, Perin and Travica “cleaned” the match and gave The victory at Olympiacos 25-23!
The sets: 25-20, 20-25, 21-25, 23-25.
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