The men’s national team went from heaven to heaven in Norway when they fell 2-0 sets behind the Norwegians but clinched victory with a sustained counterattack at 3-2 sets and put a right foot into the 5th minute. Qualification started group of the European Championship.

The key to our national team’s downfall was Giorgos Tzioumakas’ cross in the third set, with the Greek diagonal delivering solutions from serve and attack.

Dante Bonifande’s players lost their focus in the second set, despite leading 17-11, after receiving simultaneous complaints from the match’s two referees, which left them 2- behind. 0 sentences.

The Greek internationals didn’t give up and continued to lead the game with a sustained counterattack until the tiebreak, where the turnaround was achieved with Psyche now at a high psychological level combined with the injury to Norwegian diagonal player Jonas Kvalen.

Captain Giorgos Petraeas was the top scorer for Greece with 16 points, while Giorgos Tzioumakas and Thanasis Protopsaltis each had 14 points.

Our representative group for the 2nd day of the 5th group of the Eurovolley 2023 qualifier welcomes Croatia next Sunday (7.8., 8.30 p.m. ERT-3) in the gym of Glyfada “Makis Liugas” for the top of the group, from their team defeated Cyprus in the premiere at home with 3:0 sets.

Referee: Gloria Jimenez (Spain), Thomas Transeth (Norway)

Fluctuation:

• 1st set: 6-8, 16-14, 21-15, 25-19
• 2nd set: 5-8, 10-16, 16-21, 27-25
• 3rd set: 4-8, 13-16, 19-21, 23-25
• 4th set: 5-8, 14-16, 18-21, 21-25
• 5th set: 1-5, 4-10, 5-12, 9-15

*Norway’s points come from 5 aces, 65 attacks, 5 blocks and 30 errors and Greece’s points come from 4 aces, 64 attacks, 9 blocks and 32 errors.

The sentences: 2-3 (25-19, 27-25, 23-25, 21-25, 09-15) in 135′

NORWAY (Tore Alexandersen): Kvalen 29 (23/45ff., 3 aces, 3 blocks), Huss 11 (11/27ff., 43% sub. – 29% excellent), Olmstad 10 (9/25ff., 1 block, 53% sub ..- 32% excellent), Tele 5 (4/7 ff., 1 ace), Takvam 9 (9/15 ff.), Kavli 11 (9/19 ff., 1 ace, 1 block) / Bergum (l , 52% under – 22% excellent), Olsen, Hattervik, Sunde.

GREECE (Dante Bonifande): Petreas 16 (13/16 ff., 3 blocks), Andreopoulos 7 (5/10 ff., 2 blocks, 38% sub. – 17% excellent), Galiotos 1 (1 ace), Mouchlias 8 (8/19 ff. ), Linardos 1 (1 block) / Kokkinakis (l, 79% sub – 46% excellent), Tzioumakas 14 (11/22ff, 2 aces, 1 block), Koumendakis 5 (5/16ff, 14% sub. – 14% excellent), Kasambalis.

The complete program of the 5th qualifying group (Greek time)

Wednesday, 08/03/2022

• Norway 2-3 Greece (25:19, 27:25, 23:25, 21:25, 09:15)
• Croatia 3-0 Cyprus (25:20, 25:16, 25:13)

Saturday, 08/06/2022

• Nicosia, 8pm: Cyprus v Norway

Sunday, August 7th, 2022

• DAK Glyfada, 8:30 p.m.: Greece – Croatia

Wednesday, 08.10.2022

• Osijek, 8 p.m.: Croatia – Norway
• DAK Glyfada, 20:30: Greece – Cyprus

Saturday, 08/13/2022

• Nicosia, 20:00: Cyprus v Greece

Sunday, 08/14/2022

• Volda, 5 p.m.: Norway – Croatia

Wednesday, 08/17/2022

• Volda, 7 p.m.: Norway – Cyprus
• Osijek, 8:00 p.m.: Croatia – Greece

Saturday, 08/20/2022

• Nicosia, 8 p.m.: Cyprus – Croatia

Sunday, August 21, 2022

• DAK Glyfada, 20:30: Greece – Norway

grading

1. Croatia 1 win – 0 loss, 3 points, 3:0 sets, 75:49 points
2. Greece 1 win-0 losses, 2 points, 3-2 sets, 109-105 points
3. Norway 0 win-1 loss, 1 point, 2-3 sets, 105-109 points
4. Cyprus 0 win-1 loss, 0 points, 0-3 sets, 49-75 points

*From the 7 qualification groups of the European Championship 2023, the first 7 and the best 5 runners-up qualify.

In the event of a tie between the teams, the criteria for scoring are in the following order:

1) victories

2) grades

3) Set factor

4) points coefficient

5) results in the games between them