Olympiacos was serious throughout the final, left no room for challenge to Panathinaikos and was crowned for the 26th time in his history and 8th successive Greek Cups, defeating the eternal opponent with 22-9 in the closed swimming pool in Nea Ionia.
MVP The final, Zalaki, who scored 7 goals. Papanastasiou and Genidounias with 4 goals each are close. Awesome atmosphere from the fans of both teams (about 70 on each side), who did not stop singing.
A historic match for Yiannis Fountoulis, who took the top of the players with the most conquests of cups (12), former Olympic goalkeeper Nikos Deligiannis.
The match:
A fantastic start from Olympiacos, who was playing awesome defenses and hit the counter, with Papanastasiou being the ultimate protagonist. He opened the scoring on the attack, made it 2-0 in the above and shortly thereafter and again in the counter raised the score to 3-0. Kakaris made it 4-0 in the above, with the joke scoring the first goal for Panathinaikos about 4 minutes after the start of the match and reducing to 4-1.
The game was very good and the two teams with fine executions found their way to the nets, especially in the player above. Kakaris, Zalanki and Alafragis on the side of Olympiacos and Papasifakis, Albertis and Papanikolaou on the Panathinaikos side made 7-4 of the first eighty.
In the second eight minutes, Olympiacos played amazing defense, trapping Panathinaikos, allowing him to score only twice with Rasovic and Papasifakis. The “reds” had a very good day of Papanastasiou and Zalaki and with a characteristic ease to lead 6 goals (12-6).
In the third eight minutes, Olympiacos again with his excellent defense held Panathinaikos away from the goal, while Zalanki scored two more goals for 14-6. Gillas raised the score to 15-6, with Papanikolaou reducing to 15-7. Zalaki and Genidounias made 18-7 of the third period.
The last period of the final was procedural and all that was left was the final score, with Olympiacos emerging a Cup, beating Panathinaikos 22-9.
Eight minutes: 7-4, 5-2, 6-1
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