The first step towards qualifying for the finals of the championship was made by the Olympiacos women’s volleyball team. The Red and Whites prevailed 3-0 sets and want to reach the final of the Volley League with another win.

The Parisian players were in control throughout the match, earning their 16th consecutive LaLiga win. Top scorer for Carlo Paris’ team was Saskia Hippe with 18 points, followed by Salas with 13 points.

The game: At the start of the game, Olympiakos were 8-5 behind Aris but gradually reduced and equalized with Salas to 10-10 while leading 13-11 thanks to an attack from Costa. Aris prevailed again with a series of 3:0 for 16:14.

The “Red-Whites” responded and closed the game with an ace from Emmanouilidou (18-18) while going +2 (22-20) with an out attack from the visitors. Aris equalized at 22-22 but with Hippe attacking, Olympiakos made it 23-22, Mercado hit 24-22 and Giota made the 1-0 set 25-22 with a block.

Derby was the second set with several variations in the score, but always both teams found the solutions to stay close to the score. With the score at 21:21, two attacks by Emmanouilidou and Hipe, the result became 23:21 in favor of Olympiacos and took first place in the set bowl (24:22), despite Aris reducing the score (24:23) . Mercado in counterattack marked the 25:23 and the 2:0 set.

With the result and the psychology on his part, Olympiakos led from the beginning of the third set (5:2), a difference that Aris could not reduce to the final 3:0 set with 25:19.

Olympiakos – Aris 3-0

Sets 3-0: 25-22 (27′), 25-23 (27′), 25-19 (25′)

*Olympiakos’ points came from their opponents’ 5 aces, 46 attacks, 9 blocks and 15 errors, and Aris’s from their opponents’ 3 aces, 43 attacks, 7 blocks and 11 errors.

OLYMPIACOS (Carlo Paris): Giota 8 (4/8ff, 4 blocks), Emmanouilidou 10 (6/9ff, 2 aces, 2 blocks), Salas 13 (12/28ff, 1 ace, 48% yp – 33% excellent ). Costa 7 (4/25 onwards, 1 ace, 2 blocks, 41% min – 41% excellent), Christodoulou 4 (2/4 onwards, 1 ace, 1 block), Hipe 18 (18/37 onwards) / Konomi (l, 82% min – 55% excellent)

Aris (Yiannis Tsairelis): Kioutsiouki 5 (2/7 run, 3 blocks), Mylona 2 (1/3 run, 1 block), Mercado 21 (19/49 run, 2 aces), Drakoulidou 1 (1 block), Swan 10 (10/21 ff ., 48% yp – 30% excellent), Evans 14 (11/32ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks, 50% yp – 22% excellent) / Kourtidou (l, 43% yp – 43% excellent) , Tani, Gaitanidou, Lappa, Balogianni