Having another excellent performance, the men’s water polo team did another away victory in the group stage of Champions League. The ‘’Reds’’ beat Dynamo Moscow 13-9 reaching 11 wins and secure the first position in the Group A. Genidounias and Obradovic were the top scorers with three goals. 

Key action: 

The Russians staged an encouraging start against group-leader Olympiacos,  but after 3-0 the ‘’Reds’’ arrived to the game and in the second they managed to equalize. The first half ended with Dynamo being ahead 5-4. Soon Olympiacos began dominating, they led 8-9 before the last break and with a quick double in 97 seconds in the fourth they went 8-11 up, and sailed away with another win in the remaining time. This cemented their top position in the group while Dynamo needs to beat Jug (CRO) in Dubrovnik on the last day.

Match data: 

The quarters: 3-1, 2-3, 3-5, 1-4

Goals: 

1st quarter: 1-0 Bychkov, 2-0 Lazarev, 3-0 Raden, 3-1 Obradovic

2nd quarter: 3-2 Mylonakis, 3-3 Delakas, 4-3 Latypov, 4-4 Mourikis, 5-4 Kholod

3rd quarter: 5-5 Fountoulis, 5-6 Gounas, 6-6 Lazarev, 6-7 Obradovic, 7-7 Raden, 7-8 Mylonakis, 7-9 Genidounias, 8-9 Subotic

4th quarter: 8-10 Genidounias, 8-11 Gounas, 8-12 Obradovic, 9-12 Kholod, 9-13 Genidounias

Squads: 

Dynamo Moscow (Marat Zakirov): Kostrov, Lazarev 2, Latypov 1, Pijetlovic, Bychkov 1, Nagaev, Raden 2, Kholod 2, Subotic 1, Shepelev, Ivanov

Olympiacos (Thodoris Vlachos): Pavic, Mylonakis 2, Delakas 1, Genidounias 3, Fountoulis 1, Nikolaidis, Dervisis, Buslje, Mourikis 1, Gounas 2, Argyropoulos, Obradovic 3, Galanopoulos

Quotes: 

Thodoris Vlachos said: ‘’This was the away victory that we have enjoyed more until now. We knew that we didn’t need the win to secure the first position but we played with passion for the win. I really enjoyed to see my players to play so well. ‘’

Pavic stated: ‘’Although we knew that we had secured the first position, we played for the win. We didn’t start very well but we improved our defense and attack doing nice goals. We deserved the victory and now we are focusing on the next match against Baarceloneta, the Greek Championship and the Final-8.’’