Women’s Volleyball League: PAOK, AEK, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos reached the semifinals

PAOK also needed the tiebreak in the second game of the two teams to overcome the resistance of the excellent Aris and qualify for the semifinals of the championship.

In one of the best games of this year, PAOK managed to overcome the obstacle of the yellow-blacks and now they will face Olympiakos in the semifinals with home advantage (the series is counted after 2 wins).

The game lasted 128 minutes and was acrobatic in a balance of terror from start to finish, which is also reflected in the statistics, where the differences are minimal, with Blanco (23 points in 7 blocks) and Aplada (16 points in 10 blocks) are shocking.

PAOK – Aris 3-2

The sentences: 3-2 (25-27, 25-21, 25-22, 23-25, 15-11) in 128′.

*PAOK’s points come from 54 aces, 68 attacks, 16 blocks and 24 errors and Aris’ points come from 6 aces, 61 attacks, 16 blocks and 23 errors.

PAOK (Marco Fenolio): Polinopoulou 10 (8/14 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Iliopoulou 6 (2/3 ff., 2 aces, 2 blocks), Krol 7 (7/28 ff.), Strantzali 8 (7/19 ff .., 1 block, 57% sub.-26% excellent), Klepkou 9 (7/36ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 57% sub.-29% excellent), Blanco 23 (15/20ff., 1 ace, 7 blocks) / Xanthopoulou (l, 54% sub.-44% excellent), Papadopoulou (l), Merteki 15 (12/31 ff., 3 blocks, 38% sub.-36% excellent), Armoutsi, Liagi 11 (10/31 ff., 1 block).

PERMIT. ARIS (Yiannis Tsairelis): Tanis 3 (Ref. 2/5, 1 ace), Aplada 16 (Ref. 6/9, 10 blocks), Tsoumba 23 (Ref. 22/73, 1 block), Silva 5 (Ref. 3/14, 2 block), Kaisedo 4 (3/15 f., 1 ace, 35% sub.-25% excellent), Betseva 24 (22/53 f., 2 blocks, 47% sub.-35% excellent) / Kakuratou (l , 33% sub.-33% excellent), Theodosiou (l) Pitsigoni, Keramitsopoulou, Apostolidou 3 (3 aces), Alexakou 5 (3/18ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 38% sub.-23% excellent) , Salagudi

AEK beat AO Markopoulos Revoil for the second time to reach the semifinals of Women’s Volley League.

AEK meets Panathinaikos in the semifinals, with Union having home advantage and the series being decided on the two wins.

AOM tried to be competitive in the match and managed to nullify significant differences (9-4, 10-9, 15-12) in the first set and reached 16-15 where they lost a double tiebreaker and with back-to-back points from Silva , AEK, escaped 21-16 to 1-0.

In the second set, the visitors led 6-9 with continued attacks from Fitzmaurice, but AEK responded immediately (10-9) and with singles results of 12-4, they led 18-13 and without further surprises reached the 2-0 that gave the qualification .

In the third set, two aces by Vlahaki made it 10-6, but AOM’s block made it 10-11 to keep it interesting until 18-17. There, Silva let AEK escape 20-17 and reached the finals 25-20.

AEK 3-0 Markopoulos

The sentences: 3-0 (25-19,2 5-20, 25-20) in 74′

*The points of AEK They came from 10 aces, 43 attacks, 2 blocks and 20 enemy errors and Markopoulos’s came from 1 ace, 36 attacks, 7 blocks and 15 enemy errors.

AEK (Yunus Öcal): Nizetich 14 (12/30ff., 2 aces, 76% sub. – 52% excellent), Kalandatze 3 (2/9 ff., 1 ace), Vlahaki 11 (8/21 ff., 3 aces, 75% sub .-75% excellent), Konstantinidou, Silva 19 (18/33 ref., 1 ace), Kulikova 7 (3/5 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks) / Artakianou (l, 45% ref.-00% excellent ), Xintara (l, 50% sub.-40% excellent), Xanthopoulou 1 (1 ace).

AO MARKOPOULOU REVOIL (Giangrosi Pasqualino): Fitzmaurice 13 (11/23 ref., 2 blocks, 40% sub.-16% excellent), Nagels, Fitterer 6 (4/10 ref., 2 blocks), Allagianni 2 (1/5 ref., 1 block), Leitham 11 (11/25ff), Kalantaridou 10 (7/27ff, 1 ace, 2 blocks, 76% sub-41% excellent) / Goula (l, 40% sub-20% excellent), Diakoulia , Kotsara, Gravari 1 (1/5 ff.), Spanaki, Vaiopoulou.

Panathinaikos beat Thetida for a second time to become the first team to qualify for the Volley League semi-finals in time.

After the 3-1 win in Voula, it took the Greens two sets to seal qualification and they managed it with relative ease, although Thetis surprised them early in the first set.

Politanska’s serve turned 4-3 into 4-7, but PAO immediately equalized (7-7) and after 8-9 to 12-9 they didn’t let their opponent get close (18-12, 21-15, 23 -18).

Panathinaikos continued to have very large percentages in attack, clearing the second set easily (6-2, 10-6, 19-7) and needing a 3-5 point difference early in the third set, which he managed and magnified the final.

Panathinaikos – Thetis 3-0

The sentences: 25-21, 25-12, 25-15 at 74′

*Panathinaikos’ points come from 6 aces, 50 attacks, 3 blocks and 16 enemy errors and Thetida’s points come from 5 aces, 29 attacks, 1 block and 13 enemy errors.

PANATHINAIKOS AO (Yiannis Kalmazidis): Hatziefstratiadou 12 (9/12 ff., 2 aces, 1 block),

Anae 11 (9/14ff, 2 aces, 50% sub-31% excellent), Grotous 5 (5/11ff, 50% sub-30% excellent), Papafotiou 4 (3/3ff, 1 ace), Anthoulis 15 (14/31 ff., 1 ace), Kros 4 (4/6 ff.) / Roga (l, 75% sub.-38% excellent), Nikologianni 6 (4/6 ff., 2 blocks, 29% sub.-29% excellent), Politis, Metaxas, Medits 2 (2/3 cont.).

ASP THETIS (Giorgos Rousis): Oikonomidou 11 (ref. 10/31, 1 block), Hayden 6 (ref. 4/15, 2 aces, 71% sub-29% excellent), Politanska 2 (ref. 1/2, 1 ace), Sirinina 1 (1/3 ff.), Hardeman 8 (8/21 ff., 32% sub.-08% excellent), Papageorgiou 5 (5/10 ff.) / Maniatogianni (l, 39% sub.-09% excellent) , Syristatidis, Garofalaki 1 (1 ace), Pavlopoulou 1 (1 ace), Papaderaki, Louka.

Olympiacos sealed their ticket to the four playoffs of the Women’s Volley League with their fourth win of the year over AO Thiras.

Last Saturday, the Red-Whites took the lead with a 3-1 win in Santorini and despite AOTH’s efforts, managed to secure qualification.

In the first set, Olympiacos escaped 10-7 and 14-10, AOTH cut to a point (14-13) and came back when 18-14 became 18-16, but there Olympiacos went on a 4-0 run (22-16) and took the set.

In the second case, the home team escaped early (4-3, 7-3, 9-4) and were virtually never threatened with finishing and normally qualifying the case.

AOTH tried to reduce the score and took a 3-7 lead in the 3rd set but couldn’t hold it (6-7) and Olympiacos converted from 8-9 to 11-9 to make it 3-0.

Olympiacos – AO Thiras 3-0

The sentences: 3-0 (25-18, 25-20, 25-20) in 70′

*Olympiakos points came from 2 aces, 44 attacks, 7 blocks and 22 opponent errors and AO Hunts came from 4 aces, 34 attacks, 6 blocks and 14 opponent errors.

OLYMPIACOS SFP (Lorenzo Micelli): Emmanuilidou 5 (4/15 ref., 1 ace), Winters 12 (11/24 ref., 1 block, 53% sub.-33% excellent), Lambrousi 3 (2/4 ref., 1 block), Salas 8 (7/16 ff., 1 block, 36% sub.-14% excellent), Koumboura 18 (15/29 ff., 3 blocks), Carraro 1 (1 ace) / Kosmas (l, 53% sub.-41 % excellent), Christodoulou, Genitsaridis 6 (5/13 ff., 1 block, 29% sub.-29% excellent).

AO THIRAS (Vladimir Vasovich): Konstandellou 10 (Ref. 5/10, 2 aces, 3 blocks), Bozic, Langeger 2 (Ref. 2/14, 50% sub-50% excellent), Mercado 11 (Ref. 9/19, 2 blocks), Ketsman 10 (10/26 ff., 29% sub.-14% excellent), Kioutsiuki 3 (3/5 ff.) / Belia (l, 41% s.-22% excellent), Karabassi (l, 69% . -31% excellent), Zioga 5 (3/13 ff., 2 aces), Kalapoda 1 (1/1 ff.), Tsochatzi, Faki 2 (1/9 ff., 1 block).