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Match Review GBR - CHN 8-1

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It proved to be third game lucky for Barry Middleton’s Great Britain, who finally got their first Pool B win at the FINTRO Hockey World League Semi-Finals with a hugely convincing triumph over China in Antwerp.

Nick Catlin, Sam Ward and Mark Gleghorne both scored doubles in the rout to help GB move into second place in the pool, ahead of hosts Belgium but behind Malaysia.

Catlin was the first GB player to make their mark on the score-board, slapping a high ball into an open net to finish off a decisive attack, with Ward and Gleghorne netted second quarter goals before China’s Li Zecheng made the score 3-1 at half time.

Four Great Britain goals arrived in the third quarter, the pick of which came from a brilliant back-hand effort from Ashley Jackson either side of fine finishes from Gleghorne and Ward before Alastair Brogdon and Catlin completed the scoring.

When asked to sum up his feelings about the game, GB’s Nick Catlin said: “We were much improved today, as we were looking to bounce back from our disappointing performance against Ireland (2-2), so I’m really pleased with what we did out there. When you play well, the scoreline kind of takes care of itself. We want to finish as high in the pool as we can, and we know that if we win the next game we will be in a really strong position.”

Great Britain’s final Pool B match will be against current table-toppers Malaysia on Sunday (28 June), while China will be back in action on Friday (26 June) when they face Ireland.

Goals

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Action	Score
GBR	4	26	CATLIN Nick	FG	1 - 0
GBR	18	13	WARD Sam	FG	2 - 0
GBR	23	14	GLEGHORNE Mark	FG	3 - 0
CHN	26	11	LI Zecheng	PC	3 - 1
GBR	36	14	GLEGHORNE Mark	PC	4 - 1
GBR	38	7	JACKSON Ashley	FG	5 - 1
GBR	42	11	BROGDON Alastair	FG	6 - 1
GBR	43	13	WARD Sam	FG	7 - 1
GBR	55	26	CATLIN Nick	FG	8 - 1

Cards

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Type
CHN	22	27	SUN Tianjun	G
GBR	26	21	WHITEMAN Tim	Y
CHN	34	1	ZHANG Zhixuan	G

GBR

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Yellow
X	1	PINNER George
Bench	2	BAILEY James
6	6	WEIR Henry
X	7	JACKSON Ashley	1
5	9	MARTIN Harry
5	11	BROGDON Alastair	1
X	12	HOARE Michael
4	13	WARD Sam	2
X	14	GLEGHORNE Mark	2
X	16	DIXON Adam
X	18	MIDDLETON Barry
7	21	WHITEMAN Tim		1
4	22	CONDON David
X	24	LEWERS Iain
X	25	GRIFFITHS Chris
X	26	CATLIN Nick	2
X	27	FOX Dan
X	30	AMES David
		Team Manager	HALLIDAY Andy
		Head Coach	CRUTCHLEY Bobby
		Stand-In Manager	RALPH David
		Assistant Coach	BLEBY Jon
		Physiotherapist	SAWKINGS Julia
		Medical Doctor	WILKES Graeme

CHN

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green
X	1	ZHANG Zhixuan		1
X	5	HUANG Yue
4	7	GUO Xiaoping
6	8	LU Fenghui
6	9	WANG Bowen
X	10	WANG Zipeng
5	11	LI Zecheng	1
X	13	AO Yang
29	14	MENG Lei
6	15	DU Talake
X	17	E Liguang
X	21	DU Chen
X	22	DONG Yang
X	26	AO Weibao
X	27	SUN Tianjun		1
X	28	LIU Yixian
37	30	YAN Rongyao
X	32	XU Rui
		Team Manager	YANG Liu
		Head Coach	CUI Yingbiao
		Stand-In Manager	HUO Kelin
		Assistant Coach	JIA Wei
		Assistant Coach	HAN JiZhong
		Assistant Coach	TAO Zhinan
		Physiotherapist	WANG Mingbo

DNP = Did not participate
S = Suspended
DSQ = Disqualified

Match Officials

Role	Official
Umpire 1	VAN EERT Roel
Umpire 2	BARBAS Diego
Reserve Umpire	KOH Eric Kim Lai
Video Umpire	van BUNGE Coen
Judge 1	WARRIS Rogier
Judge 2	RAMPONE Guendalina
Technical Officer	DECKENBROCK Christian

Pool A

Pool B

Pool A

Pool B

GBR V CHN ( Pool B ) Hockey World League Semi-Final Antwerp 2015