Men’s Handball Cup: AEK, Olympiacos and PAOK in quarterfinals

With the qualification of favorites, the games of phase “16” for the men’s handball cup were completed.

AEK easily qualified for the Men’s Cup Round of 16 after beating Phiaakas Corfu 35-17 away.

Zifkovic was Union’s top scorer with 8 goals, while experienced left winger Angelos Tsilis scored 7 goals for the hosts.

Olympiacos SF/Omilos Xyni won the easy qualification for the quarter-finals of the Men’s Cup by beating Zafirakis Naoussa 33-20 at the closed stadium of Ilioupoli.

PAOK also secured qualification for the quarter-finals of the Greek Cup, beating Vrilissia 42-27 in Thessaloniki.

In the first half, the guests stayed close to the goal (20:16), but in the second “the hosts stepped up” and closed the lead with Ladakis, who scored eleven goals.

Tomorrow, Thursday 22.12. At 2:30 p.m. in the OCHE office, the draw for the Men’s Cup for the quarter-final phase and the Final Four will take place.

According to the results of phase “16”, the following teams will take part in the lottery: AEK, AESH Pylaias, Aris Nikias, ASE Doukas, Diomedes Argos, Bianco Monte Drama 1986, Olympiacos SF/Omilos Xini, PAOK.

The game statistics

FAIAKAS CORFU – AEK 17-35

The five minutes: 1-4, 2-7, 4-10, 7-11, 8-12, 10-15 (em.), 12-19, 13-20, 13-23, 15-27, 17-29, 17- 35

FAIAKAS (Michalakis): Andriotis, Alamanos, Tsilis 7, Koulouris, Dimitrelos, Kontis, Koskinas, Kypriotis 1, D. Dellis 3, Pitos 4, Tsilibaris, Zervas, N. Dellis, Korakianitis 1, Provatas, Nastos 1.

AEK (Albanian): Arambatzis 4, Tick, Zifkovic 8, Kalyvas 2, Madalinics, Nikolaidis 1, Iliopoulos 2, Raspitsos, Kotsionis 1, Papadionisiou 1, Liapis 3, Arsic, Sokolic 2, Tsitobi, Rogulski 5, Kederis 6.

Referee: Pitas-Angelidis, Two minutes: 1-5, Penalties: 2/2-1/1

PAOK – Vrilisia 42-27

The five minutes: 4-3, 7-5, 10-10, 13-11, 17-14, 20-16 (m), 24-18, 26-20, 31-23, 36-23, 39-24, 42- 27

PAOK (Gousios): Gigof, Dougias 2, Eleftheriadis 4, Tsamouridis 3, Nikolaidis 1, Papazoglou 2, Apostolou 1, T. Triantafyllidis 1, Tsanaxidis 2, Koukmisis 4, Kavousanakis 3, D. Triantafyllidis 7, Ladakis 11, Tzorginis 1, Giavasidis , Velissariou.

ESN by Vrilissi (Toutsis): Karadimas, Vlachos 4, Tombros, Pantazis 1, Aslis, Univ. Stathis, Antoniadis, 2 Nikolakopoulos, 2 Karamasiotis, 2 Zarikos, 7 Khoursoudian, Petr. Stathis 1, Korkolis 3, Beskos, Genas, Tsamouris 5.
Referee: You wrote – Kyriakou. Two minutes: 5-2. penalty: 0/0 – 1/1

OLYMPIAKOS SFP/OMILOS XYNI-ZAFIRAKIS NAOUSAS 33-20

The five minutes: 1-1, 4-3, 7-3, 10-4, 14-7, 16-9 (f) 17-12, 19-14, 23-16, 25-16, 30-18, 33-20

OLYMPIA (Grammar): Kotanidis, Roussos 1, Karabourniotis 1, Papavasilis 5, Papadimitriou, Kandylas 2, Bayios 4, Dombris 1, Weber 6, Passias 3, Montoro 2, Liolios 3, Ostrousko 2, Gratzan 1, Michaelidis 2, Bauer.

ZAFIRAKIS (Deligiannis): Athanasiou, Bolas, Pinakoudis, Kanizai 3, Tsageras, Theodoropoulos 4, Boubulendras, Rotzios 4, Misailidis 3, Biliouris, Apostolidis 2, Galitis, Milovics 3, Vafeidis 1, Tsatsas, Daskalopoulos.

Referee: Mertinian-Bramou, Two minutes: 3-2, Penalties: 3/3-2/3

The results of the round of 16

• HC Salamina – AESH Pylias 25-29
• HANTH – Diomedes Argos 28-31
• Olympiacos SFP/Omilos Xini – Zafirakis Naoussa 33-20
• PAOK-ESN Virlission 42-27
• Faikas Corfu- AEK 17-35
• Aris Nikias-GAS Kilkis 26-22
• Bianco Monte Drama – Aeropos Edessa 38-24
• ASE Duka-Ionian Affidea 30-26