Olympiacos defeated the fighting Pegasus Polichnis 3-0 to take 14 points from five wins in as many games and lead the championship race after Matchday 5.

Alberto Giuliani’s team had big problems in the first set, which they recovered from 22-24 and with the protagonists of Chandrino, Stern, Payenk and Dalakoura making a decisive and decisive 4-0 run, they won 27- 25 and won then pass as well.

In the 3rd set, Koumendakis started as the main winger instead of Dalakouras, who was the main player in the first two sets. Stern and Hidalgo scored 13 and 12 points respectively and were the top scorers.

Pegasos had Mavrovouniotis as their first scorer with 9 points, but Armenakis was more effective in percentage terms with 7 points.

Pegasus performed well in the first two sets and especially in the first. He presented himself well-read and with competitive courage. He went 8-4 with two aces from Milis and attacks from Barretto and held the lead throughout the set. Pegasus’ 17:15 with Milis became Olympiakos 19:17 after a 4-0 run thanks to Stern’s serve and Payenk’s good block placement.

Although Olympiacos took a 1-0 lead, Pegasos didn’t give up. With Mavrovouniotis on top and the blocks of Sakoglou, Kanello, Pegasos took a 22-21 lead and made it 24-22 with Kanello and Bareto. Olympiacos lost to Dalakouras (23:24) and equalized at 24:24 through a mistake by Sakoglou. Chandrinos with a block against Milis made it 25-24, Milis equalized 25-25 and Olympiacos won the set thanks to Stern’s attack and Payenk’s block against Bareto Pena for 27-25.

And in the second set, Pegasos went into service with stubbornness and pressure. It stayed close until 15:14, but Mavrovouniotis’ missed serve and Barretto’s mistake gave Olympiakos two points to make it 17:14. Pegasus went down with Mavrovounioti’s block on Stern at 20-19, but in the next half Payenk stopped Mavrovounioti’s block to make it 21-19 and the free throw came from Stern, who scored three straight aces to take the score to 24-19. The set ended 25-20 with Stern’s attack.

In the 3rd set from 8-6, Olympiacos went on a 3-0 run thanks to Travitsa’s serve and escaped 11-6. At some point there the match was decided as Olympiakos took the score and the match ended with Mavrovouniotis’ missed serve.

Olympiacos – Pegasos 3-0

The sentences: 27-25, 25-20, 25-16 in 76 minutes.

*Olympiakos points come from: 7 aces, 9 blocks, 36 attacks, 25 enemy errors and Pigasos Polichnis points come from: 3 aces, 4 blocks, 31 attacks, 23 enemy errors.

OLYMPIACOS SFP (Alberto Giuliani): Payenk 6p. (4/4f., 2 blocks), Star 13 (10/17f., 3 aces), Travitsa 2 (1 block, 1 ace), Dalakouras 6 (6/10f., 67%f., 67%ar.) , Linardos 7 (3/8 reps, 3 blocks, 1 ace), Hidalgo 12 (9/16 reps, 1 block, 2 aces, 50% reps, 44% reps) / Tziavras (l. – 47% Rep., 41% no.), Papagelopoulos, Koumendakis 5 (4th/7th floor, 1 block, 40% floor, 20% no.), Chandrinos 1 (1 block).

PEGASUS POLYCHNIS (Heracles Theodorou): Komitoudis 2 (1/1f., 1 ace), Bareto Pena 4 (4/12f., 60%f., 40%ar), Mavrovouniotis 9 (8/18f., 1 block, 69%f., 55% no .), Milis 8 (6/13f., 2 aces), Armenakis 7 (6/7f., 1 block), Kanellos 4 (3/7f., 1 block) / Bourakis (l. – 60%f., 60 % no.), Grammenoudis, Sakoglou 4 (3/7f., 1 block), Tsirakis (l), Sotiriou, Terzoglou.

Panathinaikos passed through fire and iron from Orestiada

A big match took place in Orestiada, both figuratively and literally, in which Panathinaikos defeated the hard-fought Athlos Orestiada 3-2 in the packed gym of Nikos Samaras.

Panathinaikos left a valuable point in the critical city, climbing to 10 points in the standings and is now -4 from Olympiakos and -2 from PAOK.

The Greens lost 0-1 sets but turned the game around, taking a 2-1 sets lead but eventually needing the tiebreak to win 15-12.

The big star of Panathinaikos was Lucas Rangel with 15 points, 65% offensive efficiency and 2 blocks, while the top scorer was Hernandez with 23 points, 4 of which were aces. Vassilis Kostopoulos competed again as libero. The best set for Panathinaikos was the 2nd set in which he scored 6 aces.

Athlos put on a strong performance and, like Olympiakos, showed evidence of a great team determined to play every game in the league. Kasambalis, Gladstone and the libero Spyros Veloudis showed top performances in reception and defence. Athlos loses a third game in the tie-break and while remaining the only team without a win in the league, climbs up to 3 points in the table.

Athlos Orestiada – Panathinaikos 2-3

The sentences: 25-20, 16-25, 17-25, 25-22, 12-15 in 144′.

*Athlos Orestiada’s points came from: 3 aces, 12 blocks, 44 attacks, 36 opponent errors and Panathinaikos AO points came from: 8 aces, 12 blocks, 54 attacks, 33 opponent errors.

ATHLOS ORESTIADAS (Iliad Kreuzis): Gladstone 11p. (8/12f., 2 blocks, 1 ace), Cayo de Pra 13 (11/36f., 1 block, 1 ace), Casambalis 3 (3/5f.), Algoul 9 (3/11f., 6 blocks) , Rizopoulos 9 (7/17f., 1 block, 1 ace, 40%f., 20%f.) Genoff 13 (11/31f., 2 blocks, 56%f., 28%f.) / Veloudis (l – 38% of the population, 14% of the population), Hatzimarinakis (l), Bozidis Base 1 (1/1f.), Diamantidis, Tsolakidis, Bozidis P.

PANATHINAIKOS AO (Dimitris Andreopoulos): Kowar 15p. (12/28 reps, 1 black, 2 aces, 65% reps, 35% reps), Petraeus 10 (5/10 reps, 5 blocks), Jacobsen 3 (0/2 reps, 3 blocks), Rangel 15 (11/17f., 2 blocks), Frankos 8 (8/20f., 56%f., 25%f.), Hernandez 23 (18/38f., 1 block, 4 aces) / Kostopoulos l. (55%f . ., 18% no.), Georgiou, Bassis.

PAOK defeated Aristotelis Skydras 3-0 to honor Pantakidis

PAOK celebrate their fourth win in five league games and remain second in the table with 12 points – 2 points behind pioneer Olympiakos. The doubleheader team defeated Aristotelis Skydras in a 3-0 set, with the face of the game being the center of the visitors and former PAOK player Yiannis Pantakidis, who was honored with a doubleheader jersey.

Competing protagonists were Van de Dries and Gujs Jorna. The Belgian diagonal helped the most on attack, block and serve and was the top scorer with 17 points, while Giorna followed him in attack and kept an unerring reception on the few tries he had, as Aristotle’s tactic was to over raptis and to serve Kokkinakis. From Aristotle, Flores Jackson was the leader in attack and reception and was also his side’s top scorer with 13 points.

PAOK came into play strongly as Van de Dries pressed Aristotle’s reception and extended a 7-2 lead. Before the guests could react, PAOK’s good tactics in the block neutralized Mendez and Van de Dries and Rapti dominated the net to 14-6. The gap widened further with Walsh’s block on Mendez and Mendez’s error, Rojas shot the gap to +12 (22-10). The set ended with a Van de Dries attack.

It was Jorna’s turn in the second set and quickly opened the 7-4 with four personal points (three from attack and one from blocking). Rapti’s serve again made it difficult for Aristotle to arrive and with Van de Dries feeding quickly at the near post, PAOK started a fresh 3-0 run to make it 16-8. The Belgian also finished the 2nd set 25-20 and 2-0 in the set.

The 3rd set was more even as Aristotelis got away at his best point in the game 8-4 against Flores and Vlachopoulos. PAOK responded with Walsh’s serve. PAOK’s Canadian passer opened new cracks in the reception of Aristotle and gave Van de Dries and Rapti the opportunity to end counterattacks. With an overall run of 6-0, PAOK overtook Aristoteles as if he had been stopped at 10-8. At the most crooked point of the game, there were fights at the net and a point-to-point rally up to 18:18.

Yorna defeated Tselios 19-18 and Voulkidis from 9 yards served his own handwriting on PAOK’s superiority. A crucial 4-0 run formed from two Yorna points, a Sarikeisoglu error and a Costa block on Mendez resulted in the 22-18 result and the final was a 3-0 run thanks to Yorna’s attack and Van de’s two aces equally impressive dries for 25-19.

PAOK – Aristotle Skydras 3-0

The sentences: 25-13, 25-20, 25-19 in 69 minutes

*PAOK’s points came from: 6 aces, 12 blocks, 32 attacks, 25 opponent errors and FES Aristotle Skydra’s points came from: 2 aces, 4 blocks, 30 attacks, 16 opponent errors.

PAOK (Josko Milenkowski): day 14p. (12/16f., 2 blocks, 88%f., 75%f.), Costa 4 (2/4f., 2 blocks), Walsh 3 (2/2f., 1 block), Voulkidis 7 (3/6f .., 3 blocks, 1 ace), Raptis 5 (3/14f., 1 block, 58%f., 32%f.), Van de Dries 17 (10/18f., 3 blocks, 4 aces) / Kokkinakis (82% of population, 64% of population), Mouchlias.

FES ARISTOTELIS SKYDRAS (Panagiotis Sdraukakis): Mendez 11p. (10/25f., 1 ace), Roland Flores 13 (11/17f., 2 blocks, 56%ap., 44%ar.), Rojas Santoval 3 (3/8f.), Chelios 3 (0/6f. ), Sdraukakis N., Pantakidis.

program and results

Saturday 19.11

• Olympiacos SFP Pegasos Polichnis 3-0
• Athlos Orestiada – Panathinaikos AO 2-3
• PAOK – FES Aristotelis Skydras 3-0
• Milos – OFI 3-1

Sunday 20.11

• AOFinikas – AOP Kifisias

grading

1. Olympiacos 14
2. POC 12
3. Panathinaikos 10
4. milo 10
5. Kifisia 8
6. Finikas Syros 7
7. OFI 3
8. pegasus 3
9. Athlus Orestiada 3
10. Aristotle Skydras 2

Next match day

• FES Aristotle Skydras – Pegasus Polichnis
• Panathinaikos AO – Olympiacos SFP
• AOP Kifisias – Athlos Orestiadas
• OFH – AO palm
• PAOK-Milos