Panathinaikos 3-2 Olympiakos: The Greens won the championship after a tussle with the Reds and Whites

Panathinaikos retained his scepter in women’s volleyball. After a long game, the Greens defeated Olympiakos 3-2, made it 3-0 in the final series and won the 25th championship in the history of the division.

The two teams provided a rich spectacle for the volleyball fans, with Panathinaikos claiming victory with clear wits at the critical points and especially in the tie-break.

Olympiakos showed the best performance of the season, at times he was excellent with his big weapons, the serve and the block defense fought for excitement until the final.

The match: Olympiacos started the game with pressure on the serve. This resulted in a 7-7 becoming a 7-11, with Winters’ serves spoiling reception on the greens. Anae stopped the red-whites’ 4:0 with an attack, only to follow Lambrousi’s performances 6:0 to make it 8:16.

From there Panathinaikos started his own 7-1 to reduce to two (15-17). But the continuation of the set belonged to Olympiakos, who again escaped with serve as a weapon, this time Sala, to take the set 25-21.

Red and white continued to dominate until the middle of the second set. Weaponizing their serve and block, they managed to build up a big difference and went 14-19 to the final stretch before the final score.

From then on, the image of the game changed. First, Anthoulis’ serves helped Panathinaikos reduce to a point (19-20) and then Cross’s serves allowed the greens to turn the tide of the set.

Winters wiped out the Kalmazidis players’ first bowl set, but then Panathinaikos made it 1-1 at 26-24 with a point from Anae and an attack from Koumboura.

Panathinaikos was the one who went stronger in the third set, managing to maintain a four point lead to 11-7.

Weaponizing Winters’ serve, Olympiacos managed to collect the difference and then level the set at 15-15. From there, however, Panathinaikos first managed to pull away again with three points (18:15), then Papafotious’ serve finished the job for the greens with 25:17.

Olympiacos played with their backs to the wall and took a risk, pushing the limit of the serve error and managing to spoil Panathinaikos’ reception. The Red-Whites took a 5-8 lead, but the Greens quickly equalized the set.

This time it was Sala’s serve that spoiled the reception and Olympiacos managed to build a safety margin which they maintained until the end of the set, leading 2-2 at 25-20.

There the drama culminated as Olympiacos led 3-2 but conceded a 4-0 run to make it 6-3, with Hatziefstratiadou doing a great job at the net. The two teams traded places with a score of 8-4 followed by an ace by Hatziefstratiadou (9-4) and the result reached 11-4.

Olympiacos fell to 12-7 but lost a counterattack to Koumboura (Antenna, 13-7), with Grotous’ ace sending PAO into a bowl match. Koumboura erased the first (14-8), Salas the second (14-9 block on Anthoulis), with Koumoura reducing to 14-10 with a new counter.

Panathinaikos – Olympiacos 3-2

The sentences: 21-25, 26-24, 25-17, 20-25. 15-10

*Panathinaikos points came from 5 aces, 60 attacks, 14 blocks and 28 enemy errors and Olympiacos points came from 6 aces, 62 attacks, 13 blocks and 20 enemy errors.

PANATHINAIKOS AO (Yiannis Kalmazidis): Anae 15 (14/37ff, 1 block, 38% sub – 17% excellent), Grotous 12 (8/25ff, 2 aces, 2 blocks, 67% sub – 39% excellent), Papafotiou 2 ( 1 ace, 1 block), Anthoulis 26 (24/73 ref, 1 ace, 1 block), Cross 11 (6/11 ref, 5 blocks), Medic 2 (1/4 ref, 1 block) / Roga (l, 37% sub – 15% excellent), Hatzieustratiadou 11 (7/11 ff., 1 ace, 3 blocks), Nikologianni, Metaxas.

OLYMPIACOS SFP (Lorenzo Micelli): Emmanuilidou 9 (Ref. 6/14, 3 blocks), Winters 13 (Ref. 13/37, 54% sub – 25% excellent), Lambrousi 8 (Ref. 2/9, 3 aces, 3 blocks), Salas 26 (20/47ff, 1 ace, 5 blocks, 39% sub – 9% excellent), Koumboura 18 (15/42ff, 2 aces, 1 block), Carraro 3 (2/4ff, 1 block ) / Kosmas (l, 58% sub. – 17% excellent), Tsitsigianni 4 (4/9 ff.), Christodoulou.