Gymnastikos Korios Amaliada beat Cronos Agiou Dimitriou 80:73 on Friday evening in the Greek A2 league. The home side held on after a tight contest, and the result keeps them in ninth place. They had dropped a match in their last outing, so this one mattered.
To be fair, the visitors made it harder than the final score suggests. Cronos stayed within striking distance for most of the game, but Amaliada found a way through when it counted. That is the sort of thing that separates teams near the bottom of the table.
The home side had lost their previous game 59:76 to Megaridas, and this was a chance to bounce back. They had been close in three of their last five, losing by single digits twice and winning once. By then, the pattern was clear enough: you could take a game from them, but you had to work for it.
Cronos were coming off a heavy 51:70 defeat to Panionios and had not shown much resilience in recent outings. They were left exposed in the final quarter, and Amaliada saw it out. The visitors had not won any of their last three matches on record.
The win moves Amaliada to 15 points from 29 games, though the gap above and below remains tight. The table has barely shifted for either side, and there is still plenty of ground to cover. In a league like this, momentum matters more than anything else.
