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The match had already been finished ten minutes ago, most of the spectators left the Warsteiner HockeyPark, just 100 fans from down under were giving standing ovations to the Australian team. The players of coach Barry Dancer waved to the public after a glamorous performance against Pakistan – 3:0 (2:0). Their play was like a worldchampion, the pakistani were not on a par. The Olympic Champion ist now the favourit in the semi-finals.
Apperantly the Australian become better and better in every match of this tournament and they are just going to arrive their top-level in the finals. They seem to be able to rise their performance anymore. The biggest plus was the athletic dominance; the breakways are as fast as the Korean's and probably the best in this tournament.
The Kookaburras dominate the match in every moment, they slowed down if possible, and went faster when Pakistan seemed to get dangerous. They have ingeniously players finally, like Jamie Dwyer, who was nominated to the player of the day after the match.
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Pakistan must respect, that they don’t belong to the top teams in the moment. Too less attacks were created, furthermore Sohail Abbas hadn’t luck against the australian goalkeeper Stephen Lambert, who had an outstanding day. On the other side the Aussis, who scored twice after penalty corners were more succesfull. After 15 minutes, Bevan Georges shot the 1-0. Pakistan had just a few good chances. Therefore the 2-0 scored by Jamie Dwyer was the preliminary decision just some minutes before halftime. It was a goal which will be shown in every highlight-video of this. Dwyer shot, standing on the base-line, directly over the shoulder of the keeper – fantastic.
After that once again Bevan George scored, while the australian goalkeeper Stephen Lambert forbid a pakistani goal, which would have been deserved.
The Asians will be high motivated to improve their perfomance in the comming ranking matches. But they had a hard job against fantastic Australians.
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