Australia Hockey men secure comfortable 3-0 win over world champions Germany

World champions Germany were comprehensively outplayed by a clinical Australia side, who made it two wins from two in this season’s FIH Hockey Pro League with a commanding 3–0 victory.

Australia 3 – 0 Germany

The first half belonged to Australia. Dominant in possession from the outset, the home side opened the scoring with just over five minutes left in the opening quarter, prolific drag-flicker Joel Rintala finding the bottom right corner from a penalty corner for his 11th goal in as many matches. The Kookaburras struck again from another set piece in the second quarter, Campbell Geddes rocketing his effort into the net to give the hosts a 2–0 lead – an advantage they carried into the break with little trouble. The stats told the story with the Germans only producing three circle entries in the half compared with Australia’s 13.

The third quarter brought more penalty-corner success for the home side. A scrappy trap was rescued by Rintala, who improvised to steer the ball towards goal, where a swooping Craig Marais was on hand to help it in. Germany created more opportunities in the final period and earned their first penalty corner with four-and-a-half minutes remaining, but the chance went begging as Australia closed out an assured 3-0 win.

Australia’s Lachlan Sharp was chosen as the player of the match and said: “It's massive for our young group. We didn't play the best, how we wanted to play the other day, so to put out a performance here, keep them to zero goals, and I think they had one corner as well, so we defended pretty well, and it's great for the guys going forward."