This has been one thrilling Hockey World Cup and the final was just the icing that was required to make it the perfect cake. Germany, the comeback kings of this World Cup, were down 0-2 once again in the first 10 minutes of the game itself. To add to that misery, Tom Grambusch missed a penalty stroke as well.
Niklas Wellen, the saviour of the Germans throughout this World Cup was once again back into the action, doing what he does as he scored just a minute away from the half time to make it 1-2.
In the second half, the Germans scored two more goals courtesy of goals from Gonzalo Peillat and skipper Mats Grambusch. But it was not going to end like it as Belgium came back with a goal in the 58th minute from Tom Boon to make it 3-3.
The game then went into the shoot-out and over there, the German goalkeeper Alexander Stadler saved twice to give his team a chance to finish the game early. But Marco Miltkau and Mats Grambusch missed and Antoine Kina scored for Belgium to get the game into sudden death.
Germany went first and Niklas Wellen scored again. Victor Van Aubel followed him and then Thies Prinz scored again and gave the German goalkeeper a chance to become the hero. He did become that by saving against Cosyns and Germany won the shoot-out 5-4 to be crowned champions of the world.
Netherlands win Bronze Medal Match It has been a brilliant bronze medal match by the Netherlands team who have come back from being 0-1 down at half ti9me to lead 3-1 at the end of the third quarter and then defend an entire quarter to keep away the world number one from making a match out of it.
Out of the three goals scored, two came courtesy of Dutch skipper Thierry Brinkman and one courtesy of Jip Jansen. For Australia, Jeremy Hayward scored in the first quarter.
Australia would head home without a medal.
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