No way through: Malaysia’s Tengku Ahmad Tajudin trying to get past Germany’s Linus Butt during their World Hockey League semi-final match at the Taman Daya Hockey Stadium in Johor Baru on Thursday. - ABDUL RAHMAN EMBONG / The Star
JOHOR BARU: World No. 1 and Olympic champions Germany gave a masterclass as they whipped Malaysia 6-0 in the quarter-finals of the FIH World Hockey League semi-final at the Taman Daya Hockey Stadium here on Thursday.
Germany will meet South Korea in the semi-finals on Saturday while Malaysia take on Pakistan in a classification match.
It was such a mismatch that one only had pity for the Malaysians who just didn’t have a clue on how to stop the German juggernaut.
It didn’t take long for the Germans to stamp their class. They gained their first penalty corner in the fourth minute and Christopher Zeller made no mistake with his drag flick.
Then, in a four-minute spell from the eighth minute, the Malaysians went tumbling out as the Germans scored three goals to put the issue beyond the Malaysians.
Linus Butt scored in the eighth minute followed by Moritz Polk and Zeller in the ninth and 13th minutes. From then on, it was a matter of how many goals the Germans would score.
Moritz Furste and Thilo Stralkowski added two more goals in the 16th and 18th minutes for a 6-0 first-half lead.
Malaysia played a little better in the second half that yielded no goals from either side. But then the Germans were probably conserving their energy for the semi-final match.
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