The derby between PAOK and Panathinaikos at PAOK Sports Arena was greened after the players were defeated by Andreopoulos 3-1 sets.

A big protagonist for the Greens was Thanasis Protopsaltis. The Greek winger gave everything and led his team to victory.

On the other hand, PAOK played without Koumentakis, who had an injury problem when Barnes joined the foreign squad in place of Brown.

With this three-pointer, Panathinaikos overtook PAOK in the 2nd stage standings and climbed to the top of the men’s volleyball league.

The game: Panathinaikos started the game with Barnes on the spot. As a result, PAOK’s reception was ruined and Andreopoulos’ players built up a huge difference from the start, leading 1-7.

The picture of the game remained unchanged until the middle of the set where the greens went by a double score (8-16). From there we saw another set. PAOK with Petreas and Kouklinski doing a poor job in service spoiled the reception and the hosts were able to reduce to two points (19-21).

Kalmazidis players kept pushing and equalized the point difference (23-24), but in the end the set ended with Panathinaikos 23-25.

In the second set both teams were close to goal until the score was 9-10. However, from then Panathinaikos completely dominated, spoiling PAOK’s reception and with greater efficiency in attack with 25:16 easily made the 2-0 set.

With a psychology high, Panathinaikos led 3-7 early in the third set, but PAOK responded. Kalmazidis’ high risk players in service were able to quickly overtake at 8-7 and then build a lead that they defended to the end to reduce to 2-1 sets at 25-21.

The fourth movement developed into a thriller. Panathinaikos seemed to have the situation under control and led 14-18. At this point, Barnes’ performances spoiled the reception of the greens and with back-to-back blocks, PAOK ran 5-0 to pass 19-18.

From that point on we had a derby where PAOK made the set of bowls after Rangel’s net, but then the best player of the game spoke. Thanasis Protopsaltis first made it to 24-24, deftly taking the block out in a terribly difficult attack, then essentially made a single block to Udris and finished the set with another block-out.

PAOK – Panathinaikos 1-3

The sentences: 23-25, 16-25, 25-21, 24-26