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Match Review IRL - CHN 6-0

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Alan Sothern scored a hat-trick as Ireland’s Green Machine secured their place in the quarter-final phase of the FINTRO Hockey World League Semi-Finals with an high quality Pool B victory over China in the first match of Day 6 in Antwerp.

Sothern hit a quick-fire double in the 19th minute before completing his hat-trick three minutes after half time, with Peter Caruth, Ronan Gormley and Stephen Dowds also in target for the Europeans.

The result moved the Irishmen onto four points, with China’s defeat meaning that they are now certain to feature in the 9-10 Classification match.

Although Ireland’s place in the cross-over quarter-finals is now secure, they will now switch their attentions to their final Pool B match against host nation Belgium, which takes place on Sunday. The result of that contest could prove to be crucial as to where Ireland finish in the Pool standings, which in turn will make a difference as to who they will face in the quarter-finals.

“The guys settled down and dominated some phases nicely”, said a satisfied Ireland Head Coach Craig Fulton after the game. “We know they like to play a high sweeper and going man for man at the back. It means they try and intercept high up the pitch so we had to be a bit more and patient and then try and move them about and it worked.”

Ireland goalkeeper David Harte, who was injured in an on-field collision and received treatment before being taken to hospital for assessment as a precautionary measure, has been released and is making a recovery.

Goals

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Action	Score
IRL	19	10	SOTHERN Alan	FG	1 - 0
IRL	19	10	SOTHERN Alan	FG	2 - 0
IRL	22	13	CARUTH Peter	FG	3 - 0
IRL	32	6	GORMLEY Ronan	PC	4 - 0
IRL	33	10	SOTHERN Alan	FG	5 - 0
IRL	38	11	DOWDS Stephen	PC	6 - 0

Cards

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Type
CHN	18	13	AO Yang	G
IRL	23	4	BELL Jonathan	G
CHN	29	11	LI Zecheng	G
CHN	48	28	LIU Yixian	Y
IRL	49	16	O'DONOGHUE Shane	Y
IRL	49	19	CARLISLE Drew	Y
CHN	49	13	AO Yang	Y

IRL

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green	Yellow
X	1	HARTE David
X	3	JACKSON John
8	4	BELL Jonathan		1
X	6	GORMLEY Ronan	1
X	7	WATT Michael
X	8	CARGO Chris
X	10	SOTHERN Alan	3
6	11	DOWDS Stephen	1
6	12	MAGEE Eugene
6	13	CARUTH Peter	1
6	15	SHIMMINS Kirk
X	16	O'DONOGHUE Shane			1
6	19	CARLISLE Drew			1
X	20	DARLING Michael
40	23	FITZGERALD David
X	24	GOOD Kyle
X	26	GLEGHORNE Paul
X	27	HARTE Conor
		Team Manager	BARRY Stephen
		Head Coach	FULTON Craig
		Assistant Coach	CAREN Jonathan
		Stand-In Manager	JACKSON Peter
		Physiotherapist	HASLAM Stephen
		Medical Doctor	JACKSON Jennifer

CHN

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green	Yellow
X	1	ZHANG Zhixuan
X	5	HUANG Yue
6	7	GUO Xiaoping
9	8	LU Fenghui
5	9	WANG Bowen
X	10	WANG Zipeng
6	11	LI Zecheng		1
X	13	AO Yang		1	1
16	14	MENG Lei
6	15	DU Talake
X	17	E Liguang
X	21	DU Chen
X	22	DONG Yang
X	26	AO Weibao
X	27	SUN Tianjun
X	28	LIU Yixian			1
40	30	YAN Rongyao
X	32	XU Rui
		Team Manager	YANG Liu
		Head Coach	CUI Yingbiao
		Stand-In Manager	HUO Kelin
		Assistant Coach	JIA Wei
		Assistant Coach	HAN JiZhong
		Assistant Coach	TAO Zhinan
		Physiotherapist	WANG Mingbo

DNP = Did not participate
S = Suspended
DSQ = Disqualified

Match Officials

Role	Official
Umpire 1	van ELEGEM Geoffroy
Umpire 2	PRASAD Raghu
Reserve Umpire	LIZANA Eduardo
Video Umpire	van BUNGE Coen
Judge 1	DECKENBROCK Christian
Judge 2	SHARMA Anjali
Technical Officer	McKAY Iain

Pool A

Pool B

Pool A

Pool B

IRL V CHN ( Pool B ) Hockey World League Semi-Final Antwerp 2015