Spain

From : Syed Akber Ali Wahidi (Lahore)
Spain, playing CT 2004 without star striker EduardoTubau, showing superb display at Lahore’s CT and recorded their third straight win. After beating India 4-0 and Germany 5-2, they found no difficulty in edging out New Zealand 3-1 on Tuesday.
Spain’s important match will be against Pakistan on Friday and they have to play three-times Champion without Tubau. Terrassa-born Tubau, who will celbrate his 24th birthday on 6 January 2005, recorded fantastic hat-trick in 4-0 win over Pakistan at Athens Olympics. He is proving to be the nemesis for Pakistan as he also scored twice in Spain’s 3-2 win over Pakistan in Madrid Olympic qualifiers on 11 March 2004. It was the day when four simultaneous bomb attacks on commuter trains in Madrid killed 191 people and wounded around 1500.

It was Spain’s first-ever win over New Zealand in CT. The 1978 tie between the two nations ended in 4-0 win for New Zealand while a 3-3 thriller was recorded in 1984 between the two nations. On both occasions, the Kiwis were called in as replacement.
New Zealand vs Spain : Head to Head in CT
1978 : New Zealand 4-0 Spain
1984 : New Zealand 3-3 Spain
2004 : New Zealand 1-3 Spain

Matches NZ won ESP won Drawn Goals (NZ) Goals (ESP)
3 1 1 1 8 6

7 DECEMBER 2004 MATCH :

SPAIN 3 (Pau Quemada 2 – 40PC, 54 PC, Santiago Freixa - 63)
NEW ZEALAND 1 (Darren Smith – 46 PC)

SPAIN : Bernardino Herrera - Santiago Freixa, Francisco Fabregas, Andreu Enrich, Juan Escarre, Alex Fabregas, Ramon Alegre, Victor Sojo, Rodrigo Garza, Sergi Enrique, David Alegre

SU : Eduard Arbos 13, Pau Quemada 13, Albert Sala 18, Alberto Esteban 42, Ignacio Alborch 63

DNP : Francisco Cortes, Juan Fernandez

NEW ZEALAND : Paul Woolford - Dean Couzins, Dion Gosling, Blair Hopping, Wayne McIndoe, Simon Towns ©, Phillip Burrows, Bevan Hari, Darren Smith, Mitesh Patel, Dave Kosoof

SU : Lloyd Stephenson 10, Ryan Archibald 16, James Nation 46

DNP : Dharmesh Puna, Gareth Brooks, Bradley Shaw , Kyle Pontifex

Umpires : Virendra Singh (IND) – Rashad Mahmood Butt (PAK)

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