NZL V JPN ( 5th - 8th ) Hockey World League Semi-Final Buenos Aires 2015

NZL

4 - 1

JPN

Match Review NZL - JPN 4-1

NZL v JPN HighlightsPosted June 14, 2015

Match 27: New Zealand v Japan 4-1 (1-0)

The Blacksticks kept their Olympic dream alive by getting the better end on Japan winning 4-1 in the 5-8 classification round. In the 5th place play off New Zealand will now face Spain who earlier won a shootout competition against Korea.

The Blacksticks forced two penalty corners in the first quarter but Andy Hayward and Kane Russell were denied on both occasions. New Zealand dominated play throughout the first quarter but were unable to get on the scoreboard.

The opening goal arrived at the beginning of the second quarter when Stephens Jenness (16’) put his Blacksticks ahead. Haven taken the lead, New Zealand tried to double it but Japan’s keeper Suguru Shimmoto kept them from scoring further.

The Samurais looked for the equaliser in the third quarter but to no avail. They forced one penalty corner which was blocked. New Zealand got stronger towards the end of the third quarter but again, they failed to score.

The Kiwis eventually doubled their lead after the start of the last quarter when Shea McAleese (46’) scored from a penalty stroke. The world’s number 7 remained in good control of the match as Hayward (49’) fired a penalty corner low into the bottom to increase the lead to 3-0.

Japan pulled one back with two minutes remaining when Genki Mitani slotting home after a great effort from Kazuma Murata. However, the Blacksticks sealed their 4-1 victory with a goal from Steve Edwards with 28 seconds left on the clock.

Thoughts on the match:

Stephen Jenness (NZL)
“We want to finish fifth tomorrow. We had to regroup after the huge disappointment in the quarter-final and make sure put out a good performance today. Spain are an interesting team to play, they have a good style of attacking. We have to put out our best performance to beat them but I think we will be up for it.”

Devon Manchester (NZL)
“Regardless how we finish here we still have the Oceania Cup where we could qualify for the Olympics but of course our goal is to reach the 5th place here. We had a lot of the game but tomorrow against Spain we need to be a bit more clinical to be able to put the game away.”

Goals

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Action	Score
NZL	16	27	JENNESS Stephen	FG	1 - 0
NZL	46	25	McALEESE Shea	PS	2 - 0
NZL	49	5	HAYWARD Andy	PC	3 - 0
JPN	58	6	MITANI Genki	FG	3 - 1
NZL	60	31	EDWARDS Steve	FG	4 - 1

Cards

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Type
NZL	47	9	HILTON Blair	G
NZL	57	31	EDWARDS Steve	G
JPN	57	3	KAYUKAWA Koji	G

NZL

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green
X	4	HAIG Nick
X	5	HAYWARD Andy	1
X	6	CHILD Simon
6	9	HILTON Blair		1
X	10	ARCHIBALD Ryan
55	15	ENERSEN George
5	17	WOODS Nic
X	18	BURROWS Phil
X	20	MANCHESTER Devon
5	21	RUSSELL Kane
42	22	TARRANT Blair
X	24	PANCHIA Arun
X	25	McALEESE Shea	1
5	27	JENNESS Stephen	1
X	28	ROWSELL Dwayne
6	29	INGLIS Hugo
X	30	MUIR George
X	31	EDWARDS Steve	1	1
		Team Manager	LESLIE Chris
		Head Coach	BATCH Colin
		Stand-In Manager	WOOLFORD Paul
		Assistant Coach	COLLINS Bryce
		Medical Doctor	McLAREN James (Dr)
		Physiotherapist	LEE Peter
		Video Technician	LALA Hemant
		Physical Trainer	LOGAN Scott
		Psychologist	THOMPSON Campbell

JPN

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green
Bench	1	TAKASE Katsuya
X	3	KAYUKAWA Koji		1
X	5	SHIOKAWA Naoto
X	6	MITANI Genki	1
X	7	ONO Tomonori
X	8	KITAZATO Kenji
4	9	FUJIMOTO Ippei
X	11	KAWAKAMI Kei
X	14	NAGASAWA Katsuyoshi
X	15	YAMASHITA Manabu
7	18	ZENDANA Hirotaka
X	19	TANAKA Kenta
X	23	SAKAMOTO Hiroki
44	25	WAKURI Hirotaka
2	26	MURATA Kazuma
3	28	HOSHI Suguru
X	31	SHIMMOTO Suguru
4	32	TACHIBANA Toshiro
		Head Coach	KANG Keonwook
		Stand-In Manager	FUJIHARA Nobuyuki
		Physiotherapist	SEKIYA Kosuke
		Team Manager	TERAMOTO Yuji

DNP = Did not participate
S = Suspended
DSQ = Disqualified

Match Officials

Role	Official
Umpire 1	MEJZLIK Jakub
Umpire 2	RASOOL Haider
Reserve Umpire	LABATE Gabriel
Video Umpire	NEL Deon
Judge 1	STEWART Tony
Judge 2	BURT Josh
Technical Officer	ALEMAN Luis