The women’s national team failed at the Eurovolley premiere in 2023 against host Germany

With her left hand she began her tasks Women’s Euro Volleyball 2023, which is hosted on Belgium, Germany, Italy and Estonia, the Greek national team, which lost 3-0 in sets (19-25, 21-25, 27-29) to Germany in Düsserdolf, in the third group. The next opponent of our representative group is Sweden (19.8., 6:00 p.m.).

his team Despite losing the first two sets, Yunus Ocal didn’t give up and put in a lot of effort in the third set and was up to five points ahead (21-16), but in the end he lost details in the third set and fell behind with bitterness . Greece’s first goalscorer was Martha Anthoulis with 15 points.

43-46 points on offense, 8-8 points from blocks, 4-2 aces and 12-23 points from enemy errors.

The match

The national coach started the game with Konstantinidou, Anthoulis, Lambrousi, Kalandatze, Strandzali, Nikologianni and Artakianou as sweepers.

In the first set, 4-3 became 7-3 after we lost a double tie-break and Alsmayer spoiled our welcome with her serve, allowing Germany to walk away 10-4, 12-6. The answer came with a serve from Konstantinidou for 12-10, while Ortman stopped the Greek winning streak but injured himself.

But instead of causing an upset in Germany, the home team ran 3-0 (16-11) and this time held the lead to the end. And that’s because Pogani played a terrible defense against Nikologiannis at 20-17, robbing us of an opportunity to reduce the score to two…

The start of the second set (Todai instead of Lambrousi in the original line-up) was a nightmare as we lost 4-0 after consecutive errors, but after Ocal’s time-out there was a reaction (4-3) to equalize at 7 – 7.

However, Germany escaped again (9-7) and a little later it was 11-8 (Anthoulis out) and 15-11 (Block by Strandzalis), with Greece losing three counterattacks by the time the score was 19-15 and eventually managing to move up to 19th place :17 to come to 21-19.

The defense came out but we also lost the counter to reduce it to one point (Block by Strandzalis at 22:19) and we accepted the counter (23:19) to come up with another lost counter (Block by Anthoulis ) to come to 25:21.

The third set was initially perfectly balanced, with the national team eventually taking the lead (7-8 against Anthoulis attack) and going +2 (9-11 with a block by the superb Nikologianni). Although Germany equalized 12:12 (Anthoulis out), we not only didn’t lose, we also got away straight away (13:15 instead of Constantinidou) and in the 15:17 it was 15:18 with a terrible attack from Strantzalis and a block by Anthoulis to make the difference in its maximum value at 16-21 (Anthoulis again). And yet we couldn’t clear the set despite reaching 21:24 as we lost another counterattack there (22:24), didn’t finish our attacks and Germany equalized (24:24) to equalize achieve bo (26-25).

Kalandatze erased it, Anthouli put us back in front but in the next stage we lost again on the break (27-27) with Germany getting the two points they were looking for with Schetzel and winning the game.

THE SENTENCES: 19-25, 21-25, 27-29 at 88′

HELLAS (Yunous Otsal): Anthoulis 19 (15/41ff, 1 ace, 3 blocks), Nikologianni 10 (8/17ff, 1 ace, 1 block, 36% sub – 7% excellent), Lambrousi, Kalandatze 8 (6/13 ref, 2 blocks), Konstantinidou 5 (3/3 ref, 2 aces), Strantzali 10 (9/34 ref, 1 block, 43% sub – 19% excellent) / Artakianou (l, 71% sub – 43% excellent), Todai 3 (2/6 eff, 1 block), Spanou, Xanthopoulou, Tsitsigianni.

GERMANY (Vital Heinen): Kastner 1 (1 block), Alsmeier 12 (10/29 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 46% under 23% Ags), Stigrot 12 (11/23 ff., 1 block, 62% pt – 31% excellent), Ortham 2 (2/5 ff.), Selzel 10 (8/15 ff., 2 blocks), Weizel 9 (6/16 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks) / Pogani (l , 88% under 44% excellent), Stautz 9 (8/17 ref., 1 block), Chekulav, Strube, Masse 1 (1/2 ref.).

The groups of the European

• 1st group (Belgium, Ghent): Belgium, Slovenia, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary
• 2nd group (Italy, Verona, Monza and Turin): Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, Switzerland
• 3rd group (Germany, Dusseldorf): Germany, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Czech Republic, Sweden, Hellas.
• 4th group (Estonia, Tallinn): Estonia, Finland, Netherlands, France, Slovakia, Spain.

The national team program

Thursday 17 August

• 21:00 (ERT-3), Greece-Germany

Friday 18 August

• 18:00, Türkiye-Sweden
• 21:00, Azerbaijan-Czech Republic

Saturday August 19th

• 18:00 (ERT-3), Sweden-Greece
• 21:00, Azerbaijan-Germany

Sunday 20 August

• 18:00 (ERT-3), Greece-Czech Republic
• 21:00, Türkiye-Azerbaijan

Monday 21 August

• 18:00, Czech Republic-Türkiye
• 21:00, Germany-Sweden

Tuesday, August 22nd

• 18:00 (ERT-3), Azerbaijan-Greece
• 21:00, Germany-Czech Republic

Wednesday 23 August

• 18:00 (ERT-3), Greece-Türkiye
• 21:00, Sweden-Azerbaijan

Thursday, August 24th

• 18:00, Czech Republic-Sweden
• 21:00, Türkiye-Germany

*The first 4 teams in the standings qualify for the next phase