Too hard to … AEK die, “Break” in Ilioupoli and the title will be judged in a fifth final!

Too hard to die … AEK proved to be!



Frederick Bowry’s team made an excellent appearance on Tuesday night (10/06) in Closed, Ilioupolis, where he had the upper hand in the score almost all over the game, reaching difficult but fairly, in one Huge Break with a score of 30-27 over Olympiacos, Bringing the series of Handball Premier finals equal (2-2)!

In a very strong match, with many battles and terrible duels, The “Union” prevailed in the details, as much cooler and with a clear mind in the critical points and so She sent this year’s finals to fifth and final game at home and “G. Kasimatis » the coming Friday (13/06).

The match:

Both teams came into the game very dynamically, which was also evident from the quick goals for 2-2 in the first three minutes, but also from the two minute miscarriages – one for each team – in this time. Some of the errors of Olympicin combination with the good defenses of AEKallowed the Union to run a 4-0 series and starring Arabatzis to make it 6-2, at a time when the hosts found their way to the opposing nets after almost 5.5 minutes. In fact, by “hitting” the surprise and the open court, the “reds” managed to respond with the same “currency” and bring the match. Equal and 6-6 in the 12th minute!

Since, The two ‘gladiators’ went hand in hand in scoreexchanging successive hits in the next few minutes. With a penalty shoot -out by Savva and Papavasilis’ goal, Olympiacos made it 9-8 for his first lead after the original 1-0, with AEK reacting and overtaking 12-10 thanks to the goals of Toure, Mati and Garren in the 23rd minute. With the whole of Ricardo Trilini holding the guests without finishing for the next three minutes, they managed to bring the match to the same for 12-12 at 26 ‘with the goals of Liapi and Savva. Vida’s two-minute elimination allowed the “yellow-blacks” to find two easy goals in the player above with Toure and Garren for +2 (12-14), with both teams going In the locker room with the score at 13-15.

Due to the huge stake, the start of the second half was nervous enough of both groups, With Olympiacos making quite a few and gathering mistakes, and AEK, losing a penalty and two good attacks. As such, we reached the 33rd minute to see the first goal of the repetition, with Liapis reducing to 14-15 and Panagiotou in the “lids” Send the difference to +2 (14-16) again. The near back-to-back two -minute miscarriages of Liapi and bubbleforced the hosts to play with a player less than 3 minutes. A condition that was unable to make the most of the “Union”, since, despite its numerical advantage The difference remained in 2 goals and 18-16 in 38 ‘.

And while the Piraeus people came out almost … untouched from this time, however, they continued to make cheap and effortless mistakes, The consequence of course and of the “yellow -black” defense. As such, the whole bathing with the goals of Keita and Douarte equalized the maximum value of the difference in the match, writing +4 and 20-16 with the completion of 40 minutes. With a penalty shoot -out by Sliskovic, the “reds” took a deeply aggressive “breath” at a time when the Croatian ace was then charged with a two -minute miscarriage. Nevertheless, Olympiacos, though with a lesser player, managed to “clog” the difference thanks to his two gathered goals Liapi for 21-19 in the 43rd minute.

With his two goals HoodAEK aggressively unraveled and went to +3 (20-23) before, Savvas Savvas It comes forward for Piraeus and with three consecutive goals, reduce the goal For 23-24 at 47 ‘! However, the international ace was injured shortly afterwards and left by the stadium. With a penalty shootout by Toure and a beautiful finish of Koukoula, the “Union” went again to +3 (23-26), with Sliskovic (Pen.) And Papavasilis to reduce again at 1 for 25-26 at 53 ‘.

In the last minutes they turned into a thriller, with AEK proven to be cooler at the points and with Toure at the spearhead and Zedi making two big bumps, the “Union” managed to maintain the difference to the finale and the finale and Get the win with the final 30-27, sending the finals to a fifth final!

Five minutes: 2-4, 4-6, 6-7, 10-10, 11-12, 13-15 (HMX), 15-16, 16-20, 20-23, 23-25, 26-28, 27-30.

The program of the finals:



1st final: Monday 2 June

Kasimatis 19:00 AEK- Olympiacos/Xini Group 27-32.

2nd Final: Friday 6 June

Ilioupolis 17:30 (Megaplay), Olympic Group Xini- AEK 31-26.

3rd final: Sunday June 8th

Kasimatis 17:00 (ERT2) AEK- Olympiacos/Xini Group 36-30.

4th final: Tuesday 10 June

Ilioupolis 19:30 (Megaplay), Olympic Group Xini- AEK 27-30

5th Final: Friday June 13th (if needed).