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New Zealand saw their World Cup hopes crash as they lost to Germany 3-5, while Netherlands demolished South Africa 7-1 in a Group B encounter at the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014.
Germany V New Zealand
New Zealand who were sitting comfortably in Group B before today’s game saw their World Cup journey come to an end after a 3-5 defeat against an young German side in the first game of the day.
Germany took the lead with just two minutes on the clock, when Florian Fuchs hit a bouncing ball past Black Sticks goalkeeper Devon Manchester. The goal gave Germany much needed boost as they went berserk attacking New Zealand goal. Seven minutes later, Mats Grambusch found a brilliant opportunity but his shot went just wide of the goal post.
On the other hand, New Zealand got their act together and created chances, but could not convert the opportunities with Andy Hayward and Hugo Inglis missing their chances. Germany won a penalty stroke in the match, but Christopher Zeller failed to convert. In the 31st minute of the game, Martin Zwicker ran through the Black Sticks defence and shot home past Manchester to increase the German lead to 2-0. With two minutes left in the half, Andy Hayward scored a goal from a penalty corner, first of his three goals in the match. Just before the half time whistle, Christopher Zeller scored from a penalty corner to give Germany a 3-1 lead at half time.
Second half of the game saw Zwicker and Furk score two goals, while New Zealand penalty corner expert Andy Hayward scored two more goals to end the game 5-3 in favour of Germany. The win keeps Germany alive in the competition.
Argentina V Korea
Korea’s poor stint in the World Cup continued as Argentina scored 5 goals against Korea to nearly seal their spot in the semifinals. Argentina’s penalty corner expert Gonzalo Peillat scored his second hat-trick of the tournament in the first 20 minutes of the game.
Argentina’s penalty corner expert Peillat took just four minutes to score his first goal of the match, and then added another goal three minutes later to pile misery on the Korean team. 12th minute of the game saw Lucas Vila score his first of the match, before Peillat completed his hat-trick in the 19th minute of play.
Korean team had few chances to score, but the Argentenian defence kept them at bay. Korea’s best chance was in the 58th minute of play when You Hyosik’s brilliant shot was saved by Vivaldi.
Netherlands V South Africa
Backed by home crowds, Netherlands continued their stunning form in the tournament to beat South Africa 7-1 in the final game of Day 8, with Robbert Kemperman scoring a brace in the match. Netherlands just look four minutes to get into the groove as Seve Van Ass scored a field goal to give Netherlands a 1-0 lead . It was all one way traffic in the match as Valentin Verga doubled the lead for Netherlands in the 10th minute of the match from a Rogier Hofman’s pass. Despite going 2-0 up against World no 12, Netherlands continued to press forward, before Jeroen Hertzberger scored a goal through first penalty corner of the game in the 24th minute. Netherlands went into halftime with the scoreboard reading 4-0.
Three minutes after restart saw Robbert Kemperman completing his brace and Billy Bakker scoring his first goal of the tournament to give Netherlands a well deserved 6-0 lead.
South Africa won three penalty corners to put pressure on Netherlands attack. Netherlands replaced their first choice goalkeeper Stockmann with back up keeper Blaak who made two penalty corners saves off Justin Reid-Ross.
Justin Reid-Ross then scored a goal in the 61st minute, before Sander Baart scored three minutes later as Netherlands went ahead by 7-1.
The result takes Netherlands to top of Group B while South Africa continue to languish at the bottom.
