Germany easily wins its third game

August 24th, GANT EHC in Moenchengladbach, Men: Germany – Russia 7:0 (3:0)

24.08.2011 - The German men easily won their third game at the Gant EuroHockey Championships in Moenchengladbach against Russia 7:0 (3:0). The goals for Germany were scored by Jan-Marco Montag (2), Moritz Fürste (2), Thilo Stralkowski, Christopher Wesley and Florian Fuchs. Germany is now qualified for the semi-finals with three victories and an impressive goal difference of 13:2. Also they booked their ticket to London 2012.

National coach Markus Weise was really exited about the performance of his team: „We are where we wanted to be after the preliminary round. We performed very well and did a great job so far. We are really looking forward to the upcoming challenges.”

Jan-Marco Montag scored twice from penalty corners in the second and sixth minute. Russia had no real chance to get dangerously near the German goal, kept by Tim Jessulat today. In the 32nd Minute Moritz Fürste converted another penalty corner making the score 3:0. After the break the German team kept playing aggressively and penetrated the Russian circle. After 48 minutes Florian Fuchs passed brilliantly to Thilo Stralkowski who marked the fourth goal.

Only 120 seconds later Christopher Wesley scored with a great backhandshot - 5:0. Youngster Florian Fuchs got the ball after 58 minutes and didn`t give the Russian keeper a chance. Three minutes later Moritz Fürste scored his second goal of the day. After the match he said: “Everyone in our team is really looking forward to the semi-final against England. These are the moments we are working for the whole year. I`m really excited to play a floodlit -game in a great atmosphere.“

Goals:

1:0 Jan-Marco Montag (PC, 2.)

2:0 Jan-Marco Montag (PC, 6.)

3:0 Moritz Fürste (PC, 32.)

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4:0 Thilo Stralkowski (48.)

5:0 Christopher Wesley (50.)

6:0 Florian Fuchs (58.)

7:0 Moritz Fürste (61.)

Penalty corners:

GER 9 (3 goals) / RUS 3 (-)

Green cards:

Moritz Fürste (Foul, 28.)

Umpire:

Knülle / Uyttenhove