Professional League: Rosie Malone Present Fires Hockeyroos Previous Germany

Two objectives within the house of a minute from Rosie Malone has given the Hockeyroos a formidable 3-0 win over Germany of their FIH Professional League match on the Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre.

Malone struck twice within the twenty fourth minute to reward a dominant Hockeyroos first half and it was a lead they’d not relinquish as Grace Stewart sealed the consequence late on.

The victory follows Friday’s shootout win over China to provide the Hockeyroos 5 factors from their opening two matches of the FIH Professional League 2022-23 season.

Sporting their specifically designed Indigenous uniform as a part of the First Nations themed match, the Hockeyroos had the higher of the opening stanza.

Brooke Peris hammered a tomahawk straight at Germany goalkeeper Nathalie Kubalski.

The Hockeyroos then thought they’d received a penalty stroke when the umpire blew her whistle after a Maddy Fitzpatrick drag flick was blocked illegally off the objective line, just for the choice to get overturned as a result of the ball was adjudged to have hit the again of a Hockeyroo stick.

Germany manufactured a few half possibilities earlier than Claire Colwill went shut twice because the Hockeyroos continued to threaten.

Malone then blew the sport aside within the house of 60 scintillating seconds. Nice construct up play noticed the 25 yr outdated blast a tomahawk into the roof of the web for her first, then throughout the blink of a watch she was in once more when she slotted house from close to the baseline after a telling flick on from Courtney Schonell.

Jocelyn Bartram made a reflex stick save low all the way down to her proper to stop Germany from pegging a objective again early within the third quarter because the guests began to take pleasure in extra time of their attacking half.

Germany’s trigger was aided when Schonell was proven a yellow card to depart the Hockeyroos down a participant for 5 minutes.

Nike Lorenz, Participant of the Match in yesterday’s win over China, tried her greatest to encourage Germany however she may solely blaze a tomahawk excessive over the crossbar.

Peris was then denied from including the Hockeyroos’ third when Kubalski saved her slick shot on the reverse.

Nonetheless observing a two objective deficit, Germany took a danger by eradicating their goalkeeper with 9 minutes remaining in an try and capitalise on the additional outfield participant.

Nevertheless, a nicely structured Hockeyroos defensive unit refused to provide an inch and their resoluteness was rewarded when Stewart put the icing on the cake, ending a swift Hockeyroos counterattack to knock the ball into an empty German internet.

There was nonetheless sufficient time for Head Coach Katrina Powell to provide Zoe Newman her Hockeyroos debut as she changed Bartram for the ultimate two minutes.

“We have now ready very well as a group and everybody taking part in as a unit permits me to maintain my scoring run going,” mentioned Malone who was named Participant of the Match for the second time within the collection.

“We all know Germany has a very sturdy midfield, so profitable that battle was essential for us and we did that at this time.”

The Hockeyroos are again in motion once more tomorrow for his or her second match towards China at 6.30pm AEDT.

Match Particulars
Hockeyroos 3 (Malone 24’/24’, Stewart 58’)
Germany 0
@ Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre

Hockeyroos: 1.Claire Colwill, 2.Rosie Malone, 3.Brooke Peris, 4.Amy Lawton, 5.Grace Younger, 6.Penny Squibb, 10.Maddy Fitzpatrick, 13.Hattie Shand, 14.Stephanie Kershaw, 15.Kaitlin Nobbs (c), 16.Courtney Schonell, 18.Jane Claxton, 19.Jocelyn Bartram (gk), 24.Mariah Williams, 29.Rebecca Greiner, 30.Grace Stewart, 41.Zoe Newman (gk), 42.Maddi Smith