Regardless of showcasing fewer video games, solely the Valencia Males’s swimming pools stepping onto the pitch, Day 5 of the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024 produced some exhilarating event hockey. Spain and Belgium registered large wins to cement their prime spots, while Korea and Eire clinched second place with essential wins, leaving their opponents in third place. The primary of the 2 males’s venues to finalise placings, the Valencia swimming pools have set the usual for the Oman swimming pools and the event past. Some spectacular performances have caught eyes and triggered momentum, giving groups a well-earned enhance on their hunt for Paris.
The day started with Spain’s dismantling of Egypt. The host nation had put 5 previous Egypt by the half-time break, earlier than then extending their result in attain an 8-1 victory. Marc Miralles’s two penalty corners and Alvaro Iglesias’s two area targets contributed to pushing Spain two factors clear on the prime of Pool B, and consigning Egypt to backside spot. Korea produced a significant efficiency towards Austria, Jonghyun Jang’s two penalty corners enjoying a giant half of their 4-2 win. The battle for second place, Korea’s first win of the qualifiers takes them to 5 factors and positions them above the Austrians, as they end the pool unbeaten.
Within the different pool, the Belgians continued to set the usual for the event, producing probably the most emphatic of 12-0 wins over Ukraine. A Tom Boon hat-trick was accompanied by three braces from William Ghislain, Alexander Hendrickx and Thibeau Stockbroekx respectively. Belgium’s third win in as many video games extends their pool-topping purpose distinction to +23, and solidifies them because the strongest performing staff up to now within the males’s competitors. Eire did simply sufficient to beat Japan 1-0, Luke Madeley’s penalty nook being sufficient to ship Eire second within the group, doubling their level tally. Japan’s seven unconverted corners will go away them agonising over a sport that would have despatched them by way of in second place.
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FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024
Valencia, Spain – 17 January
Outcome Match 1 (M)
Spain 8-1 Egypt
Participant of the match: Gerard Clapes (ESP)
Umpires: Rawi Anbananthan & Tim Meissner
Outcome Match 2 (M)
Austria 2-4 Korea
Participant of the match: Jung Mungjae (KOR)
Umpires: David Tomlinson & Zeke Newman
Outcome Match 3 (M)
Belgium 12-0 Ukraine
Participant of the match: Tom Boon (BEL)
Umpires: Ilango Kanbathu & Nick Bennett
Outcome Match 4 (M)
Japan 0-1 Eire
Participant of the match: Shane O’Donoghue (IRL)
Umpires: Ben Goentgen & Michiel Otten
