Olympiacos – PAOK 1-3: Women’s ‘white black’ summit victory

He was the great winner in the top derby and winning 3-1 of him is now alone first, but also the only undefeated team of the class. PAOK with the service (9 Aces) and excellent Elena Baka (first scorer with 19 points and between the two very critical in the fourth set finale) managed to make 6×6. At the start of the match Olympiacos usually had a difference of one, two points with PAOK not letting the difference open and then 15-15 taking the lead (15-18). Olympiacos tied 20-20, but PAOK again reached +2 (21-23) and in 23-24 Krivosishka took the block out for 0-1. In the second set PAOK preceded 13-14 and had the chance to reach +2, but lost the fight, Emmanuelou went to the service and left when the score had turned 20-14 with 1-1 becoming easy. The derby image returned to the third set where no team could escape the score (the biggest difference up to the 20th point was +2) with Olympiacos turning 15-16 into 18-16 and PAOK answering for 18-19 to reach 21-21. There the black and white pushed Olympiacos’ reception that did not have an easy attack with Drpa getting critical points and the set closing at 21-25. Guests were found in the fourth set quickly at +3 (6-9) and retained the lead until 11-13 to follow Olympiacos’ 4-0 streak (with good blocks) for 15-13 and the red-whites being at +2 to 19-17. But black and white responded with their own streak to reach 22-22. There Elena Baka with two attacks brought PAOK in a double bowl, with Koumura erasing the first, but Drpa finishing the next attack and sealing PAOK’s victory. Sets: 1-3 (23-25, 25-16, 21-25, 23-25) in 112′′. Olympiacos (Lorenzo Mitselli): Nizetich 7 (7/22 ch., 50% ch. – 30% excellent), Abderahim 11 (10/34 e., 1 block, 67% n.-47% excellent), Fariol 5 (3/9 e., 2 blocks), Emmanueliidou 8 (5/9 e., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Koubura 33 (32/65 e.g., 1 ace), Di July / Artacian (l. – 40% excellent), Sabati (l), Labrousis, Kaladze. PAOK. (Yiannis Tsairelis): Yasper 13 (9/28 ch., 2 aces, 2 blocks, 46% sub-23% excellent), Van De Weaver 3 (1/4 ch.), Baka 19 (14/35 ch., 2 aces, 3 blocks, 60% sub-33% excellent), Terzoglu 9 (5/13 e., 1 ace, 3 e.g.), Krivosishka 13 (8/17 e.g., 4 ace, 1 block), Drpa 15 (15/47 e.) / Xanthopoulou (l, 62% hypo.-31% excellent), Gargalla, Armoutsis.