The Argentine women’s hockey team will once again fight for medals after beating Germany on penalties (2-0, 1-1 after regulation time) this Monday in Colombes, on the outskirts of Paris.
The Argentine women’s hockey team, The lionesswon this Monday, moved on to the semi-finals and will once again fight for an Olympic medal. The girls beat Germany (2-0, 1-1 after regulation time), for the quarterfinals this Monday in Colombesperiphery of Paris.
In a very even match, in which the Europeans took the lead on the scoreboard, the resolution in the penalties was in favor of the Argentine team, which from Sydney 2000 has always been on the podium, except in Rio 2016.
They will be played against the winner of the Netherlands-Great Britain the pass to the final and the possibility of finally achieving the Olympic title, after having won silver on three occasions (2000, 2012 and 2020) and bronze in two others (2004 and 2008).
In a very close match, the Germans took the lead with a penalty scored by Viktoria Huse with just over three minutes remaining in the match.
Argentina went in search of the equaliser and it came a minute and a half from the end, with a goal from Eugenia Trinchinetti to force penalties.
In the final round, in which the players have eight seconds to beat the opposing goalkeeper starting from the 23-meter line, the goalkeeper Cristina Cosentino made his goal impregnable in the four attempts that the Germans made.
For the albicelestes they scored Julieta Jankunas and Zoe Diaz to give the pass to the ‘Lionesses‘ to the semi-finals.
Source: Ambito
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