Blake Govers smashed dwelling 4 first-half targets to cement the Kookaburras’ spot within the World Cup quarter finals with a whopping 9-2 win over South Africa on Friday.
Australia prolonged their objective distinction to a whopping 15, that means they’ll high Pool A until Argentina can belt France by an unlikely 14 targets.
It took lower than 4 minutes for the Kookaburras to hit the scoreboard, with Govers placing in a deflection from the goalkeeper after a shot from Lachlan Sharp.
Sharp nearly had their second when he acquired the top of a counter-attack, together with his shot falling broad of the far submit after a run down the fitting wing.
South Africa discovered an equalizer in opposition to the run of play when Nqobile Ntuli smashed the ball between the legs of Australian goalkeeper Andrew Constitution.
It will be the final mistake in a dominant first time period for the Kookaburras although, who all however wrapped up the win by quarter-time.
The competition was performed at a excessive tempo, however Tom Craig turned it up a notch when he acquired on the top of an intercept from Nathan Ephraums to run additional than midway earlier than scoring Australia’s second.
Govers then scored his second objective for the sport, this time when a penalty nook deflected off a South African stick and located the again of the web simply earlier than the primary break.
He would then rating two extra in fast succession after quarter-time, earlier than Jake Harvie and Daniel Beale discovered the again of the web to present the Aussies a six-goal lead at half-time.
Jeremy Hayward and Tim Model would pile on extra ache with targets within the third and fourth time period respectively earlier than Tevin Kok would rating a late comfort objective for South Africa.
The three-time world champions will play the winner of Spain and Malaysia within the quarter finals subsequent week.
