The South African Indoor Hockey Males, Powered by Tops at SPAR, produced a scintillating efficiency to push the double defending champions Austria all the way in which in a 8-6 defeat on the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup in Croatia. The sport was arguably one of many video games of the match as far as the Austrians needed to dig deep to lastly safe a win.
Dayaan Cassiem acquired his crew off to the right begin. He reacted first to a breakdown in play and transformed the possibility beautifully to shock the World’s prime ranked facet. That shock was doubled when Mustapha Cassiem fired dwelling a penalty stroke to double the lead.
Alex Bele pulled one again earlier than Dalpiarro Langford spun and located Mustapha within the center for the match’s prime scorer to fireplace dwelling. Simply earlier than half time Austrian captain Unterkircher pulled one other again and it was 3-2 to the Africans on the break.
Within the second half Langford noticed the favour returned because it was handed throughout from Cassiem and with on a regular basis he fired his effort into the again of the web. Alex Bele pulled one again and parity was restored by Fulop Losonci from a penalty stroke.
South Africa received a intelligent penalty nook and Mustapha Cassiem fired a trademark roundhouse to make it one other hat-trick however because the third quarter reached its conclusion Eitenberger scored to stage issues.
Three sensible Austrian targets early within the remaining quarter broke the again of the sport as Losonci scored one other two both facet of Unterkircher strike. Cassiem would rating one other to make it 8-6 however in the end go away South Africa in a battle for second place within the pool towards Poland on Thursday.
