In their two day series against the Germans in Monchengladbach, England came away with another draw. Penalty corner specialist Richard Mantell opened the scoring, with a second coming from James Tindall. But the Germans were on even terms at half time with goals by Blasberg and Nevado. Shortly after the restart Germany took the lead - this for the first time over the two matches - with Witthaus scoring from open play. But it was Richard Mantell who came to England's rescue, scoring with only a minute left on the clock. Final score 3-3. On an optimistic note, England did not conceed one penalty corner during the entire match, but this is the second match in this series where England have squandered an early lead.Meanwhile at Reading, England were entertaining the Hockeyroos. Having beaten the Australians 2-1 on Thursday, the crowd probably had their hopes raised, but this was a poor quality match for the spectator. England seemed to have much of the territorial advantage for most of the match, but goals from Angie Skirving, Suzanne Faulkner and Donna-Lee Patrick put the Australians 3-0 up just before the break. A Mel Clewlow penalty corner strike pulled one back for England, but the score remained at 3-1 until the final whilstle. Although the match offered little for the spectator, England are ranked 9th as against Australia's 3rd, and there was nothing in the match which indicated that the home team was overawed by their guests.
On feature of the match was that some of the England women were wearing GPS devices from which data can be collected about their performance during the match. Our photograph shows Rebecca Herbert wearing one of these devices being challeged by Rebecca Sanders.
