Sovereign Panathinaikos, picked it up at Rentis and returned to the throne!

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Panathinaikos champion again in the Women’s Volley League! The “greens” defeated Olympiakos 3-2 in Rentis in the fifth final of this year’s championship, making it 3-2 in a row and returning to the top of the league for the first time since 2011 and for the 25th time in their history.

Branko Gates’s athletes were back in the first set, but in the next three they imposed their rhythm and, having more solutions in defense and attack, reached the final dominance.

The match

The good block of Olympiakos brought him ahead with 4-1 at the beginning of the first set after the mistakes of the Panathinaikos players during this period. Stepanenko’s entry reduced to 4-3, but Panathinaikos’s mistakes kept +2 to +3 for Olympiakos. Stepanenko reduced to -1, but Hippe again gave +2 to +3 to the “red and whites”. Olympiacos took full advantage of the mistakes in the attack of Panathinaikos and reached +4. Khandava with its personal efforts reduced to 22-21, Olympiakos kept +1 to +2 and Salas brought 25-23 and 1-0.

Both teams found the solutions and the match went to 7-7 at the beginning of the second set, but the mistakes of the “greens then brought the 10-7. Metaxa reduced to 10-9 for Gates’s team. Olympiakos found the solutions and first reached +2 and +3 then with Salas. At 16-3, Grotesht starred in a 6-0 run for 16-19, despite the good defenses of the “red and whites”.

There, the mistakes of Panathinaikos brought the 3-0 series and 19-19 for Olympiakos, so we went to a “thriller”. Olympiakos led 24-23, 25-24 and 26-25, but twice Hatziefstratiadou and Roga’s ace brought the 3-0 series and 26-28 for Panathinaikos.

The two teams went point-by-point at the beginning of the third set, but Hadjiefstratiadou and Cross brought the +2 for the “greens”. The first and the consecutive mistakes of Olympiakos brought +5 for the guests, but with two consecutive points of Sala it became 12-14. Hadava led for 12-17, but Olympiakos reduced to 18-20, 19-21 and 20-22. Salas reduced to 21-22, but there Hadava and Cross brought the 21-25.

Hippe brought the 3-2 for Olympiakos at the beginning of the fourth set, but Panathinaikos responded with a 5-0 series with Grotesht and Cross and reached 3-8 and 4-9 with the Dutch. The last one with its offensive efforts kept +4 to +5 for the cup winners, but Salas found the solutions and reduced it to -3 for the last champions. A 2-0 series of Olympiacos from the center brought -2 and Genitsaridi reduced to 11-12.

Konstantinou found the solutions for the +3 of Panathinaikos, which maintained this difference with the blocks, the good defenses and most of the solutions. Grothes had taken over the attacks of the “clover” and nailed for 15-19 and Hatziefstratiadou brought 16-21. A 2-0 series of Olympiakos brought 18-21, Hadava brought 18-22, but a new 2-0 series of the “red and whites” brought 20-22. Hadava helped for the 21-24 and Cross gave the first championship of Panathinaikos after 2011, but also the double in this season.

The sets: 25-23, 26-28, 21-25, 21-25

The variation:

1st set: 8-5, 16-12, 21-17, 25-23

2nd set: 8-7, 16-13, 20-21, 26-28

3rd set: 6-8, 12-16, 18-21, 21-25

4th set: 3-8, 13-16, 16-21, 22-25

* The points of Olympiakos came from 4 aces, 63 attacks, 7 blocks and 19 mistakes of opponents and of Panathinaikos from 8 aces, 61 attacks, 13 blocks and 19 mistakes of opponents.

OLYMPIAKOS (Carlo Paris): Giota 6 (4/9 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Emmanouilidou 6 (5/12 ff., 1 block), August 9 (8/26 ff., 1 ace, 35% min. – 15% excellent) , Salas 20 (19/44 ff., 1 ace, 68% min. – 39% excellent), Christodoulou 5 (3/5 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Hipe 19 (18/47 ff., 1 block ) / Konomi (l, 50% sub – 29% excellent), Genitsaridi 7 (5/17 ff., 2 blocks, 60% sub – 40% excellent), Kelesidi 1 (1 block), Xanthopoulou 1 (1 / 1 ff.), Totsidou

Panathinaikos (Branko Gates): Konstantinou 14 (13/38 ff., 1 block), Cross 10 (8/19 ff., 2 blocks), Grothes 23 (21/37 ff., 2 blocks, 65% min. – 40% excellent), Papafotiou 1 (1 ace), Khantava 19 (11/46 ff., 4 aces, 4 blocks, 35% min. – 18% excellent), Metaxa 5 (5/7 ff.) / Roga (l, 30% min. – 21 % excellent), Chatziefstratiadou 7 (1/4 f., 2 aces, 4 blocks), Stepanenko 3 (2/8 f., 1 ace)

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