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Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:05 PM

The World Champs have finished with two exciting games to finish it off.


Epic Battle Austria vs Holland for 3rd place and the important spot to go into A group World Champs.




The game started with incredible pace with Austria looking the dominators, scoring first and keeping the control of the game. Holland had many oportunaties but were not able to score before half time, and Austria scored 3 leaving the half time score 3 - 0. The stadium was a full house and the noise was incredible, with horns, drums, shouting, singing and other instruments. Austria needed this win to make group A and this was the best oportunity as having the home crowd advantage.


          


The second half started with the same intense pace as the first, with Austria dominating. After 10 minutes into the second half Holland finaly scoring though a penalty shot. This then sparked up Holland and gave them that edge the were looking for, and creating another goal 5 minutes later. The game then was an all out battle, Austria to keep the lead and Holland to level the score. The crowd and the stadium erupted when Holland scored the third goal they were looking for with 58 seconds remaining, this then ment the game would go into extra time.




The extra time went for 5 minutes each way with no team scoring creating the game to go into penalty shots. This was a fantastic display of goal keeping at its best as the goalies from both teams saved over 9 shots. Holland Won after all this and kept the important 3rd spot to go into the A group.

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3 Comments

Reply Rotty
12:31 AM on November 3, 2010 
Rob, thanks heaps for the updates and photos. Good job! Kept those of us who weren't there for whatever reason up to speed with what was happening.
Reply rob
6:42 AM on November 2, 2010 
Chrissy says...
Another cracking good read - every thought about being a sports journalist Rob ? When do you guys hit Auckland Airport ?

Hi Chrissy

All the guys have gone there seperate ways, me and a couple are coming back tomorrow at 12 noon, others are staying and doing some traveling for another few weeks.

Cheers for all the support
Reply Chrissy Longworth
8:29 PM on October 31, 2010 
Another cracking good read - every thought about being a sports journalist Rob ? When do you guys hit Auckland Airport ?

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