PAOK – Mladost 3-0: Comfortable qualification for the round of 16 of the CEV Cup

PAOK submitted again 3:0 set The Mladost for the Phase of 32 of the CEV Cup and progressed to the next phase.

Despite not having newly signed French winger Axel Trutsev and Menelaos Kokkinakis on the bench to protect him, Dikefalos had a big 3-0 lead in Zagreb and got today’s game right.

With Vassilis Mouchlia appearing in the starting line-up for the first time this year and providing solutions, PAOK kept up with Mladost in the first set until the score was 14:14, then they managed to get away (16:14, 21:17) and 25 :18 to reach.

Since PAOK was only one set away from qualification, the situation did not change in the second round. The Black and Whites led again with 16:14 and consistently had a difference of 2:3 points as they were able to easily accept the change to 25:20.

With qualification decided, Milenkoski started making changes early on, gradually withdrawing all of the main players, but PAOK had no problems and comfortably made it 25-20 and 3-0.

The next opponent is the Italian Allianz Milano of former Olympiakos coach Roberto Piazza as well as Osniel Mercarejo Erdandez, Matei Kaczynski and Yuki Ishikawa.

• The sentences: 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-20) in 75′
• PAOK’s points came from 45 attacks (50% efficiency), 5 blocks and 25 opponent errors (13 lost serves) and Mladost’s points came from 1 ace, 31 attacks (37% efficiency), 6 blocks and 23 opponent errors (15 lost serves) .
• PAOK (Josko Milenkoski): Mouchlias 12 (11/25 ff., 1 block, 89% sub.-44% excellent), Van Harderen 8 (8/18 ff., 72% sub.-52% excellent), Blankenau 2 ( 0/1 point, 2 blocks), Gatsis 2 (2/5 ref.), Takouridis 4 (4/8 ref.), Van Den Dries 19 (17/26 ref., 2 blocks), / Konstantinidis (l, 100 % sub.-50% excellent), Papalexiou 1 (1/4 ff.), Saltaferidis, Sidiropoulos, Linardos 2 (2/3 ff.)
• Mladost (Ratko Peris): Götz, Smalley (0/6 Ref., 43% Ref. – 00% excellent), Milic 3 (3/3 Ref.), Ecker 12 (11/19 Ref., 1 Block, 67% Ref . .-00% excellent) Gaits 2 (2/5 ff.), Quanziger 10 (9/29 ff., 1 ace) / Pervan (l, 60% sub.-60% excellent), Busak-Vidakovic (l, 60% under -20% excellent), Ivić 1 (0/1 ref., 1 block), Vlasic 3 (2/7 ref., 1 block, 66% under -29% excellent), Jakopec 1 (0/ 2 3pt ., 1 block), Stankovic 1 (1/2 pt.)