The Spanish women’s field hockey team fell 0-2 to Australia and was eliminated from their World Cup in Tarrasa (Barcelona) as a result of Renee Taylor’s double success from penalty-corner and the Spanish null throughout the night.
Spain will not be able to reissue what happened 30 years ago at the Tarrasa Olympic Games in Barcelona’92, nor will it win the bronze medal in the last World Cup.
That yes, the selection leaves with good feelings and with a team that can give a lot in the future.
Australia capitalized on their first chance in the form of a Renee Taylor penalty-corner just two minutes into the game.
The goal accelerated Spain that in the following attack enjoyed the first of the two short-penalties that would fail in this first quarter in which Australia also enjoyed another without the success of the first.
The team imposed its rhythm and its dizzying game in a book counterattack with the ball for Sara Barrios that ran into the goal Jocelyn Bartram in his hand to hand.
The second quarter continued with Spain carrying the weight of the game in search of the equalizer but without materializing in the area of the oceanic ones.
The Australians appealed to their physique while Lucía Jiménez and Candela Mejías stayed in the match after a couple of considerable shots.
Australia was one step away from scoring the second in a counterattack with a final shot by Hannah Cullum-Sanders who, in a double intervention of great merit, disrupted the Canarian goalkeeper Maialen García.
Far from improving things in the third quarter, they got worse. First with the lack of success and second with the 0-2 scored again by the inevitable Renee Taylor in the 10th minute to make things very uphill.
The Redsticks came out in a storm in the fourth quarter with Beatriz Pérez leading the offensive operations down the flank.
In one of those actions, Spain had a new penalty-corner but once again the lack of definition revealed the hateful comparison with the Australians that made the difference.
A defeat that marks the goodbye of captain Gigi Oliva at her home in Tarrasa.
DATA SHEET
0-Spain: Melanie Garcia; Laura Barrios, Sara Barrios, Lucía Jiménez, María López, Belén Iglesias, Candela Mejías, Xantal Giné, Beatriz Pérez, Gigi Oliva, Alejandra Torres-Quevedo (Marta Segú, Constanza Amundson, Maialen García, Clara Ycart, Begoña García, Laia Vidosa, Jane Martinez).
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2-Australia: Jocelyn Bartram; Amy Lawton, Penny Squibb, Stephanie Kershaw, Kaitlin Nobbs, Jane Claxton, Karri Somerville, Renee Taylor (1), Hannah Cullum-Sanders, Rebecca Greiner, Grace Stewart (Claire Colwill, Ambrosia Malone, Maddy Fitzpatrick, Greta Hayes, Harriet Shand , MariahWilliams).
goals: 0-1, m.2: Renee Taylor (PC); 0-2, m.40: Renee Taylor (PC)