Greens complete league-and-cup double in volleyball

Panathinaikos has sealed the Volley League title and completed its archetypal treble successful implicit 4 decades aft beating PAOK astatine Thessaloniki connected Saturday night.

The Greens clinched their 22nd title title successful Greece, a mates of months aft besides winning the Greek Cup, done their 3-1 win successful the playoff last bid with PAOK.

The Thessaloniki nine had reached the best-of-five finals eliminating regular-season runner-up Milon successful 5 games (3-2).

However it came up against a very strong Panathinaikos that had swept its eternal rival, Olympiakos, successful the different semifinal series, successful conscionable three games.

The finals started with the Greens enjoying location advantage, and they won Game 1 with a 3-1 people successful Athens. PAOK responded a week aboriginal with a 3-0 triumph successful Game 2 successful Thessaloniki.

The astir melodramatic crippled of the bid was the third one, that took spot successful Athens past Monday. PAOK went up 2-1, but Panathinaikos – boosted by the capableness assemblage astatine the tribunal of Mets – came backmost to win the tie-break 16-14 and the lucifer with a 3-2 result.

That meant a victory for the Greens successful Game 4 connected Saturday, astatine the PAOK Sports Arena, would springiness them the title, and so it happened: The players of manager Dimitris Andreopoulos won 3-1 to observe the title connected the road.

Dmytro Yanchuk and Giorgos Papalexiou [InTime Sports]

They had Ukrainian Dmytro Yanchuk arsenic their champion subordinate and top scorer with 25 points connected the night, while Giorgos Papalexiou covered efficiently the spread from the wounded of US cardinal blocker Patrick Gasman.

The effect sealed a back-to-back triumph successful the Volley League for Panathinaikos, pursuing the 2025 title.