Malaysia won on Sunday. 3-0 against China, clean sheet, three points, home crowd happy. And their coach still wasn’t satisfied, because he can read a table. Nor Saiful Zaini was blunt after the China game, in comments reported by SNE Sports. “Getting the three points is what matters. Our game was at least alright, but…
Five games, five wins, and the winner came from a penalty stroke with less than two minutes left. CD Terrassa aren’t just top of the Liga IATI, they’re perfect, and Sunday’s round in Spain kept the pressure on everyone chasing them. Terrassa 2-1 Club de Campo: a stroke at the death This was Saturday’s top…
Round 2 of Hockey One ended in Adelaide on Sunday, and it ended badly for the home side. Tassie Tigers won both games, scored fourteen goals across the afternoon, and left the Fire still looking for a first win of the season. Men: Adelaide Fire 1-9 Tassie Tigers Nine goals. In Adelaide’s first home game…
Two goals all weekend was enough for Harvestehuder. Six points, two clean sheets, and a team that started the season badly is suddenly out of the basement. That’s the charm of a double weekend when your defence holds. Harvestehuder 1-0 Munich: one corner, job done Saturday’s 1-0 win over Berliner HC got a repeat on…
All twelve points on offer in Hamburg stayed in Hamburg. That’s the short version of Bundesliga Sunday. All four of the city’s top-flight men’s teams won at home, and the biggest of the four wins came in the game that mattered most. Polo 2-1 Mannheim: the top match goes to the leaders Hamburger Polo beat…
Day one, Pakistan needed six second-half goals to dig themselves out of a hole. Day two, they didn’t bother with the hole. Pakistan beat Canada 6-2 on Sunday in Johor Bahru to make it two wins from two, and this one was basically settled before half-time. In the late game the hosts finally showed up,…
Round 5 in Ireland had a theme, and the theme was nobody blinking. Ten games across the men’s and women’s EY Hockey League on Saturday. Twelve sides ended up sharing the points in regulation. Four of the five women’s matches finished 1-1. Honestly, you could’ve watched any game in the country and seen the same…
Four of India’s most decorated hockey players are reportedly about to play their last tournament for the country. And according to the players themselves, nobody at Hockey India told them first. PTI has reported, citing Hockey India sources, that Mandeep Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas and Nilakanta Sharma will make their final India appearances at…
Winning an Asian Games gold gets you a medal. Winning it the way India’s two teams just did gets you a homecoming like this. On Friday, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi felicitated the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams and awarded Rs 11 lakh to every player from both squads, in the presence of…
Nineteen goals in the five Women’s Premier Division games whose results England Hockey had published by Saturday evening, and the pattern of this season held: the student sides are ruthless, the margins are wild, and nobody’s defence is safe. The day’s headline fixture, Surbiton v East Grinstead under the lights, hadn’t appeared on the official…
