RSA vs China

RSA : 3
China: 4

Shattered is the word that best describes how we all felt after the match!
It has been a tough tournament for us as we haven’t got the results or reached the goals we wanted to achieve.

We went into the match against China with a very positive outlook as we knew we had nothing to lose. We had not beaten China the last 7 times we have played them but we wanted to make today the day!
We put in an awesome 1st 25minutes and were 1-0. Our goal came courtesy of Lungile Tsolekile who was quick to smash a rebound into the back-board after the keep had made an initial save. China equalized with about 6 minutes to go and we soaked pressure for the remainder of the half but kept the score at 1-1 going in at half time.

In the 2nd half we conceded 2 PC’s which China converted with straight flicks and we found ourselves 1-3 down. We upped the tempo, took the game to China and Ian Symons converted a penalty stroke to take us to within 1 goal. We moved the ball well and kept creating chances which lead to us winning a Short Corner which Austin Smith converted with 5 seconds to go!

Into Extra time we went.

The 1st half was fairly even with both teams trying to control the game and find a way through.

We went into the2nd half firing and created 2 great scoring chances that just went past the far post which we unfortunately didn’t get a stick on. Then we were awarded PC which was miss trapped but gathered from the back up behind the castle, the ball was carried into the circle but China got a stick on the ball and counter attacked us which lead to a short corner that they converted to win n extra time, 4-3, on golden goal.