Given that Olympiacos had secured the qualifiers in Europe's "8" and 1st position in the 5th group, after the two great victories against Padova and Uralochka, the current game with Messina was procedural. Olympiacos didn’t face any difficulty, won with the wide 17-3 and accompanied the qualification to "8" with the absolute of the three victories in three games.

The ‘’Reds’’ will be waiting on Saturday (27/1) whenever the quarter-final draw will be held in Rome to learn the opponent they will encounter at the "8" between Mataro, Dunaujvaros and Kirishi.

Key action: 

As far as the game is concerned, Olympiacos was serious and focused. The first period was completed 6-1 and the first half with 12-1. In the second half, kept the rhythm under control and won 17-3 easily. The top scorers were Alexandra Assimaki and Vaso Pelliritou, both of whom scored four goals and Emmolo with three. Two goals scored by Avramidou and Eleftheriadou and one by Margarita Plevritou, Monica Eggens.

Match data: 

The quarters:  6-1, 6-0, 2-1, 3-1

Goals: 

1st quarter: 1-0 Emmolo (06:56), 2-0 Avramidou (05:22), 3-0 Emmolo (04:46), 3-1 Amedeo (04:28), 4-1 Asimaki (03:46), 5-1 Avramidou (01:18), 6-1 Eleftheriadou (00:01)

2nd quarter: 7-1 M. Plevritou (05:08), 8-1 V. Plevritou (02:48), 9-1 Asimaki (02:12), 10-1 V. Plevritou (01:37), 11-1 Eggens (00:58). 12-1 Emmolo (00:13)

3rd quarter: 13-1 Asimaki (06:22), 14-1 Eleftheriadou (01:15), 14-2 D’Amico (00:50)

4th quarter: 15-2 V. Plevritou (05:10), 15-3 De Vincentiis (03:11), 16-3 Asimaki (02:37), 17-3 V. Plevritou (01:07)

Squads: 

Olympiacos (Teocharis Pavlides): Diamantopoulou, El. Plevritou , Eggens 1, Eleftheriadou 2, Manolioudaki, Avramidou 2, Asimaki 4, M. Plevritou 1, Emmolo 3, V. Plevritou 4, Myriokefalitaki, Stamatopoulou 

Messina: Sotireli, De Vincentiis 1, Bonnano, Amedeo 1, Brown, Radicchi, D’Amico 1, Le Donne, Marchetti, Screnci

Quotes: 

Pavlides said: ‘’We expect a difficult draw in the next round. There are a lot of teams that are very close this year, you see Kirishi lost by Budapest yesterday and plays against Vouliagmeni for the qualification. I think we continue to show concentration as team. We are back at "8" and I am delighted with the effort of the girls. Surely, we can fix several things but we have enough time until the next game. It remains to see our opponent and study it. What troubled me are some injuries we had, two ones yesterday, other two today, the one little more serious than that of Filio. This is our biggest problem we have every year.’’ 

Vaso Plevritou stated: "We are very happy because we are first in the group, but we are not satisfied with our performance. We made several mistakes in the first two games, which were the most difficult ones. But we will continue with hard work to get to the top. As far as potential opponents are concerned, the truth is that I do not prefer so much, a Russian team, but whatever we find on our way, I think we will overcome it. "