Las Leonas, winners of the same rival on Saturday but 2-1, prevailed at the Ernest Reuter Sportfeld stadium in Berlin with goals from Maria Granato (1m. and 33m.) and Jimena Cedres (11 m.). Nike Lorenz (26m.) discounted for the local team.
The team led by Fernando Ferrera leads the competition with a perfect score (36) and leads India by 14 and the Netherlands by 17, who have four games in hand.
Next Saturday and Sunday, at 8:00 in Argentina, Las Leonas will visit the Dutch, current Olympic champions and winners of the two previous editions of the tournament, in a series that could be decisive for the title.
Subsequently, the selected “albiceleste” will close its participation in the tournament against India in the city of Rotterdam, on June 18 and 19.
In this morning’s victory, the Argentine goalkeeper Belen Succi she was chosen as the player of the match. “We are preparing for the 2022 World Cup, so these games and victories are very important for us”he declared to the organization after dedicating the victory to his son.
The discipline World Cup will be played jointly in Spain and the Netherlands from July 1 to 17 this year.
Los Leones loses on penalties
The Argentine men’s field hockey team, Los Leones, fell to their pair from Germany, on penalties (2-4), after having tied one goal in the regulation period, in a match corresponding to the FIH Pro League of the discipline played in the city of Berlin.
The albiceleste team had taken advantage through Maico Casella (1st quarter, 15m.), while the local team established parity through Marco Miltkau (3rd quarter, 12m.).
In the definition by “Australian penalties” they were right Nicholas Cicileo and Tomas Domenewhile they failed Nicolas Keenan and Martin Ferreiro.
The Leones had been widely surpassed by the same rival and in the same scenario by 6-3, on Saturday afternoon, in another match of the contest. The defender Gonzalo Peillatfeatured in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, scored two goals for the German national team, after having obtained the citizenship of that country, at the beginning of the year.
The Argentine representative is third in the standings, behind India and Germany.
The next matches for Los Leones will be against the Netherlands on Tuesday, June 1 and Wednesday, June 2.
Source: Ambito
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