Already out of the women’s volleyball Euro, Portugal beats Cyprus 3-0
Superior to the opposing team in all chapters, the team from the “quinas” sealed the triumph with partials of 25-16, 25-10 and 25-13 and guaranteed the third place, above the Cypriots, fourth and last classified, with zero, and below Ukraine, first, with 14
The Portuguese women’s volleyball team won and won the Cyprus counterpart today, by 3-0, for the fifth and penultimate of group C of the qualification for the 2023 European Championship, a competition from which it is already removed.
Superior to the opposing team in all chapters, the team from the “quinas” sealed the triumph with partials of 25-16, 25-10 and 25-13 and guaranteed the third place, above the Cypriots, fourth and last classified, with zero, and below Ukraine, first, with 14, as well as Hungary, which is second, with 10, and which Portugal visits on Saturday.
At the Santo Tirso Municipal Pavilion, the hosts explore the “difficulties of adding” points to open the match, and the request discount on Cyprus coach Loizos Loizou, with 51-time on Cyprus coach if unable to change the course of a set” in which the Portuguese advantage was accentuated.
Portugal “expanded” its account with cross shots sometimes from Margarida Maia – the best scorer of the match, with 14 points -, sometimes from Julia Kavalenka, and with direct or reflected services out, but also put several balls out, both in the service, as in attack, which earned Cyprus 10 out of 16 points in the opening set.
Stronger in service, reception and attack, he improved at the orders of Hugo Silva, improved his aim in the shot, limited errors and resulted in a closed result even more uneven in the second, giving him a mate result from Amanda Cavalcanti in the center of the network, without any “outline” of Cypriot reaction.
The third set started more evenly, with the selection of the Mediterranean island, achieving the only advantage of the match, by 2-1, in the services of Emília Demetriou, before Portugal reached five consecutive points, in the services of Gabriela Coelho, and expanding the advantage in the same record of the first two “sets”, until the encounter with a service of Vasiliki Riala for the net.
Game held at the Municipal Pavilion of Santo Tirso.
Portugal – Cyprus, 3-0.
Partials: 25-16, 25-10 and 25-13.
Under referee Jörg Kellenberger (Germany) and Maria de las Olas Rodríguez Machín (Spain), the teams are lined up with:
Portugal: Amanda Cavalcanti, Gabriela Coelho, Lila Durão, Carina Moura, Margarida Maia, Julia Kavalenka and Joana Resende (libero). Also playing: Ana Figueiras, Matilde Rodrigues (libero) and Alice Clemente.
Coach: Hugo Silva.
Cyprus: (libero). Also playing: Vasiliki Riala, Emília Demetriou, Elena Tsoutsouki, Eirini Ioannou, Aikaterini Kesta, Erica Zembyla and Christiana David (libero). Also playing: Anni Prokopiou, Andrea Dobrasinovic, Paraskevi Pechlivani and Georgia Hadjicharalambous.
Coach: Loizos Loizou.
Attendance: about 200 spectators.