Malaysia Hockey

BHUBANESWAR: The Speedy Tigers are out of the World Cup quarter-final reckoning after losing to Spain 4-3 in a penalty shootout.

In the third quarter, Spain looked reinvigorated by having lots of possession and deservedly got a third penalty corner, but Hafizuddin played spoiler by making a strong save off Ignacio Rodriguez’s shot in the 32nd minute. In the first quarter, Spain had two penalty corners, one in the first minute and the second in the 12th minute. In the second quarter, Malaysia looked better in terms of movement and circle penetration, but Spain had the best chance in the 20th minute when Joaquin Menini unleashed a reverse stick shot, which Hafizuddin saved beautifully.

Spain beat Malaysia 4-3 in penalty shootout in a thrilling crossover match to qualify for the quarterfinals of the FIH Men's World Cup after the two sides ...

Marc Miralles, Bonastre Jordi and Gispert Xavier scored for Spain while Alvaro Iglesias and Marc Reyne failed to score. Malaysia were able to put the ball in the Spanish goal in the first minute of the fourth quarter, but the goal was disallowed with the umpire ruling that the ball had touched the back stick of Faizal Saari. Firhan Ashari, Faizal Saari and Suhaimi Shahmie Irfan scored for Malaysia, while Marhan Jalil and Shello Silverius missed.

Malaysia's Speedy Tigers in fighting spirit against Spain at the World Cup hockey quarter-finals playoff. (Facebook pic). KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia threw ...

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Spain will now take on Australia in the quarterfinals, while New Zealand will face Belgium in Bhubaneswar.

On the 17th attempt, Sam Lane gave New Zealand the lead and Shamsher, who had missed once earlier, stepped up again, but his attempt was well saved by Hayward, giving New Zealand the win and sending them through to the quarterfinals, while India go into the 9-16 classification matches. The final 10 minutes were filled with non-stop action as India failed to capitalise on their penalty corner opportunities, while Krishan Pathak was brilliant in stopping New Zealand shots on target, including once in the final second of the game to take the game to a shoot-out. The black sticks had their best opportunity to score just before the half as Findlay found Child on the left baseline and his pass across the face of the Indian goal was tapped in by Sam Lane to bring New Zealand back into the game. India retreated into the defence to begin the fourth quarter while New Zealand turned up the heat. New Zealand had a huge chance to start the second quarter, but the shot attempt by Morrison went narrowly wide and India capitalised soon with a quick counter, that was smashed in from the right by Lalit, who was smartly found on the counter by Shamsher. Malaysia started to get on the front foot a bit more in the second quarter but neither team was able to carve out any high quality scoring opportunity in the 15 minutes, and as the half-time whistle blew, the teams remained tied on 0-0.