After the 16th round Panathinaikos reached Iraklis on the top of the standings with 37 points. Olympiakos is following with 34 points and Paok with 32 points.
The first match of this round was on Saturday in Athens where Panathinaikos easily won 3-0 (25-16, 25-18, 25-16) over Panellinios. This was the first game for Sacchi after his injury. Stelios Kazazis the head coach of Panathinaikos used all the players and stated at the end of the game that his team was faced Panellinios seriously and managed to easily win.
In the same day in Thessaloniki Iraklis had to play in the tie break to win 3-2 (25-22, 21-25, 25-18, 23-25, 15-12) over EAPatron. At the first round in Patra EAP won with the same score. Smaragdis with 16 points (8 blocks) and Gortsianouk with 19 was the best players for Iraklis team.
The last points of tie break between Iraklis and EAPatron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCm5FM9zvYM
Ethnikos in Alexandroupoli having his middle blockers in a great day (15 points) faced and finally won 3-0 (28-26, 26-24, 25-23) over Aris Thessalonikis.
On Sunday games PAOK easily won 3-0 over Epikouros (25-21, 25-21, 25-20) and Olympiakos won 3-2 (27-25, 23-25, 25-20, 26-28, 13-15) over Lamia. The stars of Lamia’s game were the referees with their several mistakes against both of the teams. Both coaches agreed for bad referees’ performance on their statements after the game.
At last on Monday Kifisia for the 6th time in a row had to play in the tie break session. Athens’s team finally won 3-2 (25-29, 26-25, 25-23, 20-25, 15-13) over Apollon Kalamarias although it was forced to play without a diagonal. Bellos and Nanga were both injured. Jarmoc with 20 and Andjelco Dangubic with 21 were the stars for Sotiris Drikos team.
For the semifinals round of Greek Cup there will be two local’s derby. The first one will take place in Thessaloniki where PAOK will face Iraklis and the second in Athens between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos. Greek authorities are afraid of violence between the fans of Athens’s teams after all the tragic scenes that we all saw in the soccer game last Saturday.
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