Women’s European Volleyball Qualifiers: Great victory for the national team with 3:0 against Bosnia

Impressive performance and second win in as many games for the women’s national team who won 3-0 in Bosnia.

With 16 blocks and 8 aces and few errors in their game, the Greek team also won the second derby of the group, taking a crucial step towards qualifying for the final. Now they are preparing for the two encounters with Norway, starting on Saturday’s game (27/8, 20:30, Mikra, ERT Sports, free for spectators).

The match: The first set was very reminiscent of the corresponding first set of the premiere game against Switzerland with the attacking Greek team! And this time not only Martha Anthoulis was the protagonist, but the whole team,

With a good serve and excellent block defense function, the national team took a 3-7 lead and when 5-9 became 5-13 with Constantinidou’s consecutive aces, the set with the final 13-25 spell decided it all .

Bosnia stormed into play from the second set, taking a 11-8 lead with a 4-0 run and taking a break from Abondanza. When the teams returned, Greece responded with a series to match (11-12) and from then until 19-18 we fought a point-to-point battle. Anthoulis equalized, Konstantinidou and Strantzali put me ahead with a 19-21 block, the latter with an attack to make it 20-22 and there a new 3-0 series (two counterattacks from Anthoulis and an ace from Kelesidis) gave us the set and clear leadership.

And Greece, now with psychology on their side, took the lead from the start (1-3, 3-5) only to elude Konstantinidou’s efforts again at 5-9. Bosnia, playing their last card, reduced to 8-10, converting 12-16 to 15-16, with Boskovic setting the game on fire, which was boosted by Vlahaki’s impressive attack (17-19) and Anthoulis’ ace (17-20). appeared to be erased. . Ljubisic’s double substitution didn’t change anything, Greece responded with 2 blocks to 17-22. The switch ended immediately, Anthoulis responding with a new ace (17-23) to stop Vlahaki’s out streak (18-23). However, she brought up the first match point (18-24) which was wiped out by a false tackle by Strandzalis to end the match with a Radiskovic out.

Bosnia – Greece 0-3

The sentences: 13-25, 20-25, 19-25 at 72′

*Bosnia’s points come from 1 ace, 31 attacks, 5 blocks and 15 opponent errors and Greece’s 8 aces, 40 attacks, 16 blocks and 11 opponent errors.

BOSNIA (Stefan Ljubisic): Parandzic 6 (4/10 ref., 2 blocks), Dragutinovic 4 (4/10 ref.), Bozic 1 (1/4 ref.), Radiskovic 9 (8/23 ref., 1 block, 52% ref. – 37% excellent), Babic, Boskovic 13 (11/34 ff., 1 ace, 1 block) / Ivkovic (l, 55% SUB – 32% excellent), Glibic, Stefanovic, Biberdzic 3 (2/8 ff., 1 block, 38% sub – 38% excellent), Pavlovic 1 (1/5 ff.).

GREECE (Marcello Abbondanza): Konstantinidou 8 (2/7 ref, 4 aces, 2 blocks), Anthoulis 18 (15/32 ref, 2 aces, 1 block), Strandzali 13 (9/21 ref, 4 blocks, 48% ref – 19 % excellent), Vlahaki 7 (7/16 ref, 40% sub – 33% excellent), Terzoglou 8 (3/4 ref, 5 blocks), Tsioga 9 (4/6 ref, 1 ace, 4 blocks ). ) / Xanthopoulou M. (l, 70% sub. – 70% excellent), Kelesidi 1 (1 ace).