It turned into… a walk Panathinaikos his first match with Volos for the “16” Cup, easily defeating “Apostolos Nikolaidis” with a score of 3: 0 and in many ways securing access to the quarterfinals of the institution, where PAOK will be waiting for him in January (like everyone else).

The great protagonists of last year’s Greek Cup winner, the three Slovenian aces of the international team Sporar, Cerin and Verbić, who “signed” on 45’+3, 54′ and 59′ three goals of the “green” victory.

From the first minutes, Panathinaikos wanted to hit the Volos defense and in the 8th minute he played his first final in the match, when from a vertical pass from Kotsiras Verbic pressed the ball to Sporar, who passed the opponent and gave a pass, but Kotnik knocked out for a corner.

In the 16th minute, after great exchanges between the players of Panathinaikos, the ball ended up at Palacios, who turned the height of the small area, but Alho caught up and pushed the ball in front of Huancar, who was coming from the backcourt. Target.

Five minutes later (21 minutes) Kotsiras had a terrific breakthrough, very nicely changed the ball for Palacios and shot from behind the sideline, but Kotnik saved again in his corner. The Thessalian goalkeeper did the same in the 26th minute after Verbic’s shot.

Volos had his “big” moment in the match when, in the 33rd minute, Metkida fouled Alhos very quickly, he stepped into the penalty area and powerfully shot just outside the Lodingin goal, and in the 39th minute, Bernard executed a free kick to kick Kotnik’s posts.

The Greens continued to attack in waves and in the 42nd minute, after another great partnership between Bernard and Palacios, the Argentine was in firing position and shot one on one, but Kotnick again made an impressive save.

Panathinaikos’ perseverance was rewarded in the third minute of stoppage time, when, after Bernard’s cross and Verbić’s first header, Sporar made it 1-0 in favor of the Greens with a close shot. A goal that counted for about three minutes and… usually after a thorough check of Manuchos’ VAR with an offside line.

In the second half, Ivan Jovanovic’s wards left with the gas pedal. In the 54th minute, the Greens changed the ball very quickly, Huancar passed to Kocira, who laid it on Tserin, who sent the ball into the window with an excellent ricochet shot from outside the penalty area, making it 2-0 in favor of Panathinaikos .

Five minutes later (59 minutes) it was the Greens’ third Slovenian player Benjamin Verbić’s turn to put his name on the scorers’ table. Due to poor pursuit from the Volos defense, the 29-year-old winger caught a horrendous left shot from outside the box and spotted Kotnik’s corner to make it 3-0 to Panathinaikos.

In the 83rd minute, Ioannidis played beautifully one-two with Bernard and went into the penalty area from the right side, but his attempt was blocked by Kotnik with his foot in the last good moment of the match.