China have scored five goals at this tournament. Three of them came in 12 wild minutes on day one, and since then it’s been nothing but damage. On Wednesday they run into Japan. That’s not the fixture you pick when you need a lifeline. How China got here Let’s be fair first. For 25 minutes…
Three goals in nine minutes. Malaysia just blew this tournament open Pakistan didn’t play on Tuesday. They might still have lost ground. Malaysia beat Japan 4-2 at Taman Daya with a late burst that properly hurt, three goals in nine minutes in the last quarter, and earlier in the day Canada beat China 3-2 to…
Eight games into the women’s Bundesliga, one side has a grip on it. Mannheimer HC have 21 points, three clear of Rot-Weiss Köln, and they’ve done it while everyone else took points off each other. The return round gives the chasers their shot, and Sunday’s game is the one that matters most. Köln v Düsseldorf:…
The Bundesliga’s return round doesn’t ease anybody in. It starts with a derby, in the city that took everything last weekend. UHC Hamburg host Harvestehuder THC on Thursday night, 8:30 pm. Both sides walk in off the Sunday when Hamburg hockey swept the board: UHC hammered Berliner HC 7-1, Harvestehuder blanked Münchner SC 5-0, and…
Five games, five wins, twice over. The women’s Hoofdklasse has two perfect records, and Sunday is about which one blinks first. Den Bosch and SCHC both sit on 15 points. Den Bosch got there louder, winning 2-0 at champions Amsterdam in the last round, with Frédérique Matla the league’s top scorer on nine goals. SCHC…
Five wins from five gets you a target on your back. On Saturday it gets CD Terrassa a visit from the most entertaining side in Spain. Junior FC scored seven at Carpesa in Jornada 5, five of them before half-time. Terrassa’s perfect 15 points were built the other way, on control and a penalty stroke…
First against second. One point between them. Belgium didn’t need to manufacture a headline this Sunday, the table did it. Léopold are top of the Belgian Hockey League, unbeaten after six games, 14 points, and the tightest defence in the division. Gantoise sit a point behind with the league’s best goal difference. On Sunday they…
Nine goals. In one game. Surbiton aren’t just winning the Women’s Premier Division, they’re turning it into a scoring contest nobody else entered. East Grinstead were the visitors on Saturday and they left with a 9-0 defeat, Amy Costello helping herself to a hat-trick. England Hockey’s numbers tell the wider story: 27 goals in four…
Belgium hands out its Golden Stick on Sunday 29 November, and the shortlists landed this week. The men’s player prize is a proper fight. Arthur Van Doren, Tommy Willems and Tomi Domene. That’s the list for the Stick d’Or, and here’s the bit that tells you where Belgian hockey’s power sits right now: all three…
No waiting for the weekend this time. Round 5 of the Hoofdklasse men is a Thursday-night round, all of it under lights on 22 October, and the fixture list has thrown up the one game everybody in Dutch hockey will be watching first. Kampong v Rotterdam: champions, meet the form team Rotterdam finally won a…
