Olympiacos – AEK 24-21: In the cup final, the red-whites convince with an excellent defense

Olympiacos qualified for the final of the cup. The Red-Whites beat AEK by 24:21 and will meet Doukas on Tuesday afternoon (09 May, 7:15 p.m.).

Olympiacos had a great day with Bauer making great saves while Montoro was stopped offensively with five goals. On the other hand, Madalinic excelled and scored eight goals.

The match: Olympiacos was the one who got better into the final and, using his defense and attacking pluralism as a weapon, slowly managed to build a difference.

For the first time, the red-whites took an 8-3 lead through a goal from Bayou. AEK reduced to three goals with goals from Arabatzis and Tsepics, but Papavasilis and Grajan increased the gap to five goals again five minutes before half-time (10:5).

In the rest that remained, Union upped their pace in defense and attack, with two goals from Lemos and Mandalinits managing to reduce the score to 11-9, ending the first quarter.

After ten minutes in the second half, AEK was able to shorten the goal (13:12), but within two minutes Olympiacos went 3-0 up and regained a four-goal lead (16:12). .

The grammar pros continued to control the final and seven minutes before the final after two goals from Passias (21:16) they took the lead again with five goals.

From there Olympiacos controlled the pace and managed to win 24-21.

Olympiacos – AEK 24-21

The five minutes: 4-1, 5-2, 6-3, 8-4, 10-5, 11-9 (day), 13-10, 13-12, 16-13, 18-15, 21-17, 24-21

Olympiakos/Omilos Xini (Nikos Grammatikos): Kotanidis, Niokas 1, Karabourniotis 2, Papavasilis 2, Kandylas 1, Bayios 3, Papadopoulos 1, Dombris 2, Bourze, Passias 2, Montoro 5, Slavoulitsa, Ostrousko 1, Grandzan 4, Michaelidis, Bauer.

AEK (Alexis Albanos): Matskevich, Arabatzis 1, Tick 1, Zivkovic, Madalinic 8, Tsepic 1, Almeida, Iliopoulos 1, Papadionisiou 1, Liapis 1, Arsic, Sokolic, Chitobi 2, Rogulski, Lemos 2, Kederis 2.