We fucked our rivals like the whores they are in yet another sport today. This time, water polo!!
We didn't lose a single set to the green rabbits and won each of the 8 minute sets.
Here's the scores :-

1st Set : Poutanas Gios 1-3 Olympiacos
2nd Set : Poutanas Gios 2-3 Olympiacos
3rd Set : Poutanas Gios 2-3 Olympiacos
4th Set : Poutanas Gios 0-2 Olympiacos

Olympiacos: Fouνdoulis 2, Maliarak 3, Delakas 2, Vlachopoulos 2, Doskas 1, Mourikis 1

Tonights match came from the half-filled Vazelo bourdello where we faced the whores of Greece and perpetual whipping boys of Europe, Panathinaikos.
Our green brothers, fresh from another outstanding campaign which has seen them eliminated from Europe before Christmas (and saw such notable results such as a 3-0 thrashing by Maribor) needed a win against us to stop their pouting fans from crying further, whilst a win for us would see us virtually guaranteed the title.

The early part of the game was not too pretty from our view and we ended up conceding a cheap goal in the seventeenth minute before a close range equaliser four minutes later courtesy of Djebbour silenced the crowd. We should have killed the game off with the chances we had in the first half but we had to settle for taking the lead a little later than we wanted with a second goal from Djebbour in the 34th minute. Despite our advantage we could still afford to play a lot better in the game and improve for the second half, however we led at half time through a single goal.

The second half was probably even worse for us - our play was poor and we were not as aggressive as previous games. The result of this was that we were pushed onto the defensive and tended to surrender possession of the ball - Poutanas Gios took advantage of this to flop all over the pitch under the slightest contact. Some atrocious defending on our part (again) allowed them to equalise in the 67th minute and we were then chasing the winner.

Fuster had two direct chances on goal but the poor sod couldn't even score in a brothel this season and so our few chances came and went. We were also getting caught offside too often and our overall play was just sloppy - only Djebbour and Abdoun seemed to be dragging the team forward. Three fairly poor substitutions later and the game finally finished with a 2-2 scoreline. Very disappointing to not win the game but the performance was fucking dreadful.

Olympiakos 2-2 Poutanas Gios
17' Mavrias
21' Djebbour
34' Djebbour
67' Toche

Olympiakos : Carroll, Torosidis, Manolas, Siovas (90' Contreras), Holebas, Modesto (76' Greco), Maniatis, Ibagaza (62' Machado), Fuster, Abdoun, Djebbour

We played and beat our eternal clients earlier this evening in Basketball with a 60-64 scoreline. Perperoglou and Spanoulis were the big scorers for the team and Perperoglou in particular was the catalyst for our victory.
We played well from the off earning a 4 point lead at the end of the first quarter and then building on this to go twelve points clear at halftime. This massive lead allowed us enough space to see out the game and the result was another win for our team. We did make some mistakes in the third and fourth quarters allowing the Vazelos to close our lead but we had enough skill to complete the match without losing.
The scores were :-

1st Quarter : Poutanas Gios 14-18 Olympiakos
2nd Quarter : Poutanas Gios 28-40 Olympiakos
3rd Quarter : Poutanas Gios 45-54 Olympiakos
4th Quarter : Poutanas Gios 60-64 Olympiakos
 
Olympiacos : Hines 4, Low 5, Antic 7, Spanoulis 19, Perperoglou 12, Dorsey 4, Sloukas, Mavroidis, Printezis 6, Pap 9 , Mantzaris 5.

The fixtures for the upcoming season were pulled earlier today. We have a tough start to the season with all of the derbies in the first half being played away from home. We have the two main derbies within 2 matches of each other on days 12, 14, 27 and 20 respectively.
Heres the full list :-

1st Matchday : Veroia - Olympiakos

2nd Matchday : Olympiakos - Levadiakos

3rd Matchday : PAS Giannina - Olympiakos

4th Matchday : Olympiakos - Panthrakikos

5th Matchday : Atromitos - Olympiakos

6th Matchday : Olympiakos - Asteras Tripolis

7th Matchday : Olympiakos - Skoda Xanthi

8th Matchday : Aris - Olympiakos

9th Matchday : Olympiakos - OFI

10th Matchday : AEK - Olympiakos

11th Matchday : Olympiakos - Kerkyra

12th Matchday : Voulgaroi - Olympiakos

13th Matchday : Olympiakos - Platanias

14th Matchday : Poutanas Gios - Olympiakos

15th Matchday : Panionios - Olympiakos

16th Matchday : Olympiakos - Veroia

17th Matchday : Levadiakos - Olympiakos

18th Matchday : Olympiakos - PAS Giannina

19th Matchday : Panthrakikos - Olympiakos

20th Matchday : Olympiakos - Atromitos

21st Matchday : Asteras Tripolis - Olympiakos

22nd Matchday : Skoda Xanthi - Olympiakos

23rd Matchday : Olympiakos - Aris

24th Matchday : OFI - Olympiakos

25th Matchday : Olympiakos - AEK

26th Matchday : Kerkyra - Olympiakos

27th Matchday : Olympiakos - Voulgaroi

28th Matchday : Platanias - Olympiakos

29th Matchday : Olympiakos - Poutanas Gios

30th Matchday : Olympiakos - Panionios

Olympiakos are now the champions of Greece and Europe after beating the Vazeloi 82-76 in the fifth and final match of the finals. This marks a tremendous year for Olympiakos in basketball and the players utilised today should become the backbone of the team for years to come.

The game itself started through Mantzaris, Spanoulis, Keselj, Antic and Dorsey and although we initially fell behind in the quarter, we stabilised and took the lead. Spanoulis and Dorsey were the two main components of this early lead and along with Printezis ensured that we won the first period by 24 points to 20.

The second quarter saw us start in the best way  with us going 10 points clear and keeping this score differential for a few minutes before going even further and pushing 12 points in front. Once we had reached 12 points clear we kept this points difference all the way until the halftime buzzer.

The second half saw us relax a little and let the Lagoi back into the match (48-43) but we managed to recover through Sloukas and then keep an eight point differential for a few minutes. This was then followed by Printezis, Spanoulis and Papanikolaou getting some important baskets which were not answered. The last shot of the quarter was done by Spanoulis to make the score 14 points in front and lead 70-56 in preparation for the final push.

The fourth and final quarter begins and everything which could have gone wrong, does do. We make five fouls in just over a minute and Hynes is removed. We recover through Spanoulis, but the lead is cut to 9 points and we have made several mistakes during the quarter. At this stage though Printezis, Spanoulis and Papanikolaou manage to score enough points to finish the game and with it, finish the A1 championship and win the title.

The scores were :-

1st Quarter : Olympiakos 24-20 Poutanas Gios
2nd Quarter : Olympiakos 48-36 Poutanas Gios
3rd Quarter : Olympiakos 70-56 Poutanas Gios
4th Quarter : Olympiakos 82-76 Poutanas Gios

A superb Olympiakos performance ensured a win in the SEF Stadium, beating the Vazelos 84-72 and making the finals series 2-1 in the finals of the A1 championship. Now our reds will face the Lagoi one final time in the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday and will need to break their stronghold to win the finals.

Olympiakos started with the usual five - Mantzaris, Spanoulis, Keselj, Antic and Dorsey and soon racked up a decent home advantage. Keselj started off the scoring and the Serbian was red-hot at the start of the game and quickly notched up a five point lead. Spanoulis made it 7-0 before Keselj increased the score further (9-3). As the period went on Antic made it 14-6 before the Vazelos made five points of their own. Printezis and Dorsey worked hard in the first period and took the score from 22-11 to 27-15, to 29-18 at the end of the quarter.
The second quarter saw Hynes and Printezis increase the lead to 14 then onto 17 points in our favour (41-24). The Vazelos were completely silenced by this point and apart from Baptiste seemed to have given up. We maintained the lead at 17 or 18 points throughout the remainder of the half (jumping as high as 20 points on one occasion) and led 53-35 at the break.

The same classic five lineup started off the second half of the game but we started to lose some easy baskets and made mistakes in our play. Our defence started to look rather ugly and our lead slipped from 18 points to 12 points. Baptiste was again the playmaker for the Lagoi and it was annoying that we could not mark him effectively during this period.
However in the final quarter we went up to a twenty point lead again then to 23 points (78-55). Perhaps with the feeling that the game had been already won, we let our performance slip and the result was the Poutanas Gios making a comeback. We relaxed a little too much and let the collossal advantage that we had slide away. We ended the game 12 points in front, still a good scoreline but not as good as it should have been.

1st Quarter : Olympiakos 29-18 Poutanas Gios
2nd Quarter : Olympiakos 53-35 Poutanas Gios
3rd Quarter : Olympiakos 69-51 Poutanas Gios
4th Quarter : Olympiakos 84-72 Poutanas Gios

Olympiakos (Ivkovic): Hynes 6, Lo 9, Antic 7, Spanoulis 15, Dorsey 2, Keselj 10, Gecevicius 6, Printezis 16, Papanikolaou 6, Mantzaris 5, Sloukas 2.

We played our first match of the A1 finals tonight and beat the Vazeloi by 84 points to 78 to open the final scoring to 1-0. The SEF arena was packed tonight as the team came onto the court although we started the first quarter of the match badly. Unfortunately Antic, Kalathis and Spanoulis made several mistakes in the opening 10 minutes, but to counter that we made some good plays at times and only trailed the Lagoi by 5 points at the end of the quarter.
The second quarter was better for us and our play improved a lot during this period. All of the plays put in a better performance with the result that we first tied and then overtook the Vazeloi. Printezis and Hines performing particularly well during the quarter and leading to an 8 point advantage at the half time break.
After the half time break we continued our play but also made a number of mistakes. However we played well enough to keep a five point lead which we maintained over the final quarter too.

The scores in the game were :-

1st Quarter : Olympiakos 15-20 Poutanas Gios
2nd Quarter : Olympiakos 41-33 Poutanas Gios
3rd Quarter : Olympiakos 58-52 Poutanas Gios
4th Quarter : Olympiakos 84-78 Poutanas Gios

Olympiakos : Hines 13, Antic 9, Spanoulis 9, Dorsey 3, Keselj 2, Papadopoulos, Gecevicius 11, Printezis 18, Papanikolaou 16, Mantzaris 2, Sloukas 1, Katsivelis