Another outstanding performance for Olympiacos Men's water polo team that beat Partizan 16-8 for the day 4 and continues undefeated in Champions League. The ‘’Reds’’ were the leader of the game and didn’t permit to Partizan to react and question their superiority. Olympiacos kept its top rank in Group A and proves that is one of the favourites to win the trophy for this year. 

Key action: 

Olympiacos had an excellent start and went ahead 5-1. The ‘’Reds’’ kept its effective defence against the Serbians, holding them in two goals in the second eight and ended the first half with 9-3. Even if Partizan (SRB) climbed back to 10-6, Olympiacos retained the lead and wasn’t threatened at any point of the game. The hosts dominated the last period and finally won 16-8. The first goal scorers of Olympiacos and the game were Giannis Fountoulis and Alexandros Gounas who scored three goals.

Match data: 

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

Goals: 

1st quarter: 1-0 Buslje (6:15), 1-1 Lazic (5:51), 2-1 Fountoulis (5:36), 3-1 Mylonakis (4:01), 4-1 Gounas (2:58), 5-1 Nikolaidis (2:15)

2nd quarter: 5-2 Tomic (6:46), 6-2 Mourikis (4:50), 7-2 Genidounias (2:45), 8-2 Obradovic (1:21), 8-3 Jankovic M. (0:42), 9-3 Gounas (0:12)

3rd quarter: 9-4 Manojlovic (6:13), 9-5 Tomic (4:57), 10-5 Gounas (4:32), 10-6 Radonjic (3:46), 11-6 Genidounias (2:02), 11-7 Radonjic (1:42), 12-7 Mylonakis (0:05)

4th quarter: 13-7 Fountoulis (7:38), 13-8 Andrejevic (4:47), 14-8 Mourikis (2:13), 15-8 Fountoulis (1:24), 16-8 Nikolaidis (0:35)

Squads: 

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

VK Partizan: Risticevic, Kasum, Jankovic F., Lukic, Lazic 1, Tomic 2, Jankovic M. 1, Andrejevic 1, Manojlovic 1, Radanovic, Radonjic 2, Aksentijevic, Belopavlovic, 

Quotes: 

Thodoris Vlachos said: ‘’The most important issue is that we got another victory. We want to win any game at our home. Partizan is a good and difficult team. We had a great start (5-1), kept the game under control and did a big victory.’’ 

Giannis Fountoulis said: ‘’We knew that the final result would depend on our performance. Our goal is to win every game at our home. We have already taken four points in away games. We are still at the beginning and we cannot be sure for anything. The positive issue is that we are showing a very good performance at the beginning of the year but we can be improved. There are still ten games in the group so as to qualify.’’