Women’s Pool B: England 2 Scotland 0 (0-0)
Second half goals from Jo Hunter and Giselle Ansley kept England’s EuroHockey title retention hopes alive as they beat their neighbours Scotland 2-0.
The tone and pattern of the game was set very early on with England making the vast majority of attacks with Scotland soaking up the pressure while their goalkeeper Amy Gibson produced some outstanding stops.
The first came at the left post from a very early corner, scrambling at the feet of Sophie Bray and Susannah Townsend to keep out a double chance. She also denied a Giselle Ansley drag-flick while Alison Howie had the pick of the Scottish breaks denied by Maddie Hinch to keep the game scoreless at half-time.
England continued to ramp up the pressure and got their reward in the second half when Anna Toman – a key figure on the overlap down the right – fired an inviting cross. Jo Hunter got a touch to it which then took a second deflection off the Scottish back-tracking defender for 1-0.
Gibson then kept her side in the mix with a double save from Bray’s backhand and Hannah Martin’s follow-up shot. Hinch was required to do something similar at the far end from Katie Robertson’s snap shots.
England, though, always had the control and closed out the win with an Ansley drag-flick into the bottom corner inside the last two minutes.
England – Scotland
35’ Jo Hunter 1-0
58’ Giselle Ansley 2-0
Umpires: L Delforge (BEL), C Druijts (NED)
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