Argentina turned the second girls’s group to seal a spot within the semi-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic hockey competitors, regardless of falling behind three minutes from the tip of their quarter-final match towards Germany.
After 57 goal-less minutes, Die Danas took the lead when Vikoria Huse brilliantly dispatched a penalty stroke to place her aspect inside touching distance of the ultimate 4. Extremely, Las Leonas levelled the scores with simply over a minute of the match remaining, Eugenia Trinchinetti guiding an ideal penalty nook deflection past Germany goalkeeper Nathalie Kubalski to drive the match right into a shoot-out.
Argentina goalkeeper Cristina Consentino was distinctive within the one-on-ones, preserving a clean-sheet as Julieta Jankunas and Zoe Diaz de Armas scored the targets in a 2-0 shoot-out victory, sparking wild celebrations each on the sector and amongst the 1000’s of Leonas followers packed into Yves-du-Manoir Stadium.
“We’re actually comfortable, drained, however actually comfortable”, mentioned Argentina’s Agustina Albertarrio, who gained silver with Las Leonas on the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020. “That is wonderful. I really like our group. I don’t have the phrases to clarify it, however now we now have to relaxation, and we now have to maintain combating, as a result of now we now have a extremely laborious recreation (within the semi-finals).”
When requested if she felt that Argentina’s hopes had been over when Germany scored so late within the recreation, Albertarrio mentioned: “No, we at all times say we’re going to struggle till the tip. The opposite day, we performed (a pool match) towards Australia and so they scored with six seconds to go, so we felt we had lots of time.”
“Once we scored the aim, I assumed this our recreation”, continued Albertarrio. “Our goalkeeper was wonderful, and the followers had been too. At any time when we play out of the country the followers are at all times there. They’re wonderful, actually.”
Argentina’s opponents within the semi-finals might be both the Netherlands or Nice Britain, who face one another later immediately.
The hockey competitions on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 happen from Saturday 27 July to Friday 9 August. Each the lads’s and ladies’s competitions characteristic 12 groups, break up into two swimming pools of six forward of quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal matches. For extra details about the hockey competitions at Paris 2024, go to Olympics.Hockey.
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