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AUS V POL ( Pool A ) Hockey World League Semi-Final Antwerp 2015

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Match Review AUS - POL 4-0

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Australia maintained their 100 per cent win record at the FINTRO Hockey World League Semi-Finals with a solid win over Poland, putting them top of Pool A at the end of Day 6.

The mighty Kookaburras are now certain of a top two finish in the pool, and need just a draw in Sunday’s match against India to seal first place and set up a quarter-final meeting with the team that finishes fourth in Pool B.With four defeats, Poland have finished bottom of the pool and will face China in the 9-10 classification match on Wednesday 1st July.

The Poles gave the reigning world champions a torrid time in the first two quarters of a fiercely competitive and physical game. Poland’s penalty corner star Pavel Bratkowski brought a fine save from Aussie shot-stopper Andrew Charter, with Jacob Whetton forcing a wonderful stick save from Poland’s inspired goalkeeper Maciej Pacanowski, who made an incredible 23 saves during the match.

The opening goal arrived in the 10th minute when Kieran Govers smashed home a blistering strike following a blocked penalty corner flick from Kieran’s younger brother Blake. Whetton doubled the advantage after half time before Blake Govers and Simon Orchard completed the scoring.

“They put the fight to us today and we knew that was what we were going to get because they had a really good game against Pakistan”, said Jacob Whetton immediately after the match. “It was a tough fight but we ground it out in the end.”

Looking ahead to their Pool A decider against India, Whetton said: “It’s been a really good battle with them over the last twelve to eighteen months, and they have improved their hockey out of sight. We are really looking forward to what will be big game ahead of the quarter-finals.”

Goals

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Action	Score
AUS	10	27	GOVERS Kieran	PC	1 - 0
AUS	32	12	WHETTON Jacob	FG	2 - 0
AUS	52	13	GOVERS Blake	PC	3 - 0
AUS	57	3	ORCHARD Simon	FG	4 - 0

Cards

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Type
AUS	6	3	ORCHARD Simon	G
AUS	36	18	WHITE Tristan	Y
POL	43	29	POLTASZEWSKI Michal	G

AUS

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green	Yellow
X	1	DWYER Jamie
X	3	ORCHARD Simon	1	1
X	5	CIRIELLO Chris
X	9	KNOWLES Mark
7	11	OCKENDEN Eddie
X	12	WHETTON Jacob	1
X	13	GOVERS Blake	1
4	16	GOHDES Matt
X	17	ZALEWSKI Aran
X	18	WHITE Tristan			1
Bench	19	DEAVIN Timothy
X	20	SWANN Matthew
4	23	BEALE Daniel
16	24	LOVELL Tyler
6	27	GOVERS Kieran	1
4	28	BROWN Kiel
X	30	CHARTER Andrew
X	31	KAVANAGH Fergus
		Team Manager	GAUDOIN Paul
		Head Coach	REID Graham
		Stand-In Manager	APPLEBY Brendyn
		Assistant Coach	EGLINGTON Nathan
		Physiotherapist	HAWES Ellen
		Medical Doctor	CLAYDON Gary

POL

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green
57	1	MATUSZAK Arkadiusz
4	2	BROZEK Arkadiusz
4	4	RACINIEWSKI Michal
6	5	GUMNY Mijolaj
X	7	GÓRNY Tomasz
4	11	HULBOJ Mateusz
X	12	PACANOWSKI Maciej
X	13	WACHOWIAK Tomasz
X	14	ZYWICZKA Bartosz
X	17	MAKOWSKI Krystian
X	21	ZIMNICKI Dawid
X	22	MAJCHRZAK Karol
5	23	KOZLOWSKI Piotr
X	25	KROKOSZ Adrian
X	27	BRATKOWSKI Pawel
4	28	WEJEZOWSKI Maciej
X	29	POLTASZEWSKI Michal		1
X	30	POLTASZEWSKI Mateusz
		Team Manager	CICHY Tomasz
		Assistant Coach	SNIEZEK Karol
		Stand-In Manager	GROCHAL Mateusz
		Head Coach	JOSKOWIAK Jerzy
		Physiotherapist	STOLOWSKI Lukasz

DNP = Did not participate
S = Suspended
DSQ = Disqualified

Match Officials

Role	Official
Umpire 1	GREENFIELD Gareth
Umpire 2	KOH Eric Kim Lai
Reserve Umpire	BARBAS Diego
Video Umpire	SIMMONDS Gary
Judge 1	McKAY Iain
Judge 2	SHARMA Anjali
Technical Officer	DECKENBROCK Christian