As often occurred in the pool matches of major tournaments, Germany and Netherlands enacted another draw, this time at Delhi in the ongoing Hero Honda World Cup.
Each team took the lead once, and the last goal coming through the blade of vetern Teun de Nooijer in the 65th minute.
The match ended in an exciting 2-2 draw, the fate of the match remained undecided even after the hooter. After Netherlands took the lead in the 23rd minute, Oliver Korn and Jan-Marco Montag replied in style.
Germany got a penalty corner just 20 seconds left for the hooter, courtesy Matthias Witthaus’s surge from the right flank; the whole German team assembled for the fianl assault, but the Dutch goalie, veteran Guus Vogels, came up with trumps to thwart the last minute sudden death, this led to one more draw from the giants. Its fourth draw between the neighbours in 8 World Cup matches they played till date.
In the process, Germany kept up its record of not losing to Netherlands at this summit.
Hitherto winless Argentina, posted its maiden win, hanging on to their lone goal of Facundo Callioni till the end.
Korea’s nine goals blitzkreig against Canada
Canada had to undergo a nightmare, as Korea pumped seven goals in the second half alone to post an impressive 9-2 victory over Canada.
In yet another of one-sided match, Korea’s Jang Jong Hyun led the onslaught with three goals followed by a brace each by Nam Hyun Woo and You Hyo Sik. Other scorers for Korea are Lee Nam Yong and Yoon Sung Hoon.
Canada replied thro’ Philip Wright who struck in 42nd and 51st minutes.
This is Korea’s second win and Canada’s fourth successive loss