LAHORE: Meanwhile the Dutch Windmills were brought to a halt by substitute Alejandro Doherty of Argentina on the fifth day of the league matches at the seventh world cup Hockey.
The 24-year-old Doherty, an economics student from Buenos Aires, struck an equalizer just three seconds remaining for the final hooter to enable Argentina to hold European champions Holland to a three-all draw in an exciting pool A match.
The draw gave Argentina, who had scored an upset win over India Thurs day, three points from as many matches, and more importantly put the spanners in Holland’s semifinal path.
Holland, placed second in the pool with five points, are yet to play India and defending champions Australia while Argentina have two more matches—against France and the Soviet Union.
In the other matches, West Germany drubbed Ireland 4-0 while Australia thrashed the Soviet Union 3-0.
West Germans had no difficulty in trouncing Ireland. They shot into lead as early as in the tenth minute when striker Stefan Blocker converted a penalty stroke, Blocher struck once more in the 56th minute after Stefan Saliger and Thomas Brinkmann came up with field goals in the 45th and 55th minutes.
Olympic silver medalists West Germany lead pool ‘B’ with six point but are placed second on goal average.
The last match turned out to be the most exciting one, Come-back specialists’ Argentines showed their iron wills ‘once more, making a splendid recovery after trailing for major part of the second half.
‘An Early penalty corner conversion by Floras Jan Bovelander, who along with Ignacio Escude of Spain led as the maximum goal scorers, was neutralized by Carols Geneyro, who made no mistake with the ‘stroke’ which came their way in the 33rd minute.
However, the real fight back was witnessed in the second session. Even though Holland took a two-goal lead with goals from mare Delissen and Bovelander, Gutsy Argentines bounced back into the game and held the European champions 3-3.
This was made possible by Fernando Ferrera and Doherty. While Ferrera reduced the margin and Doherty, substituted for Carols Geneyro late in the session, netted the equalizer barely two seconds from time to carve out a dramatic draw for his team.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 23, 1990
