Canada vs South Africa Full Match Highlights – In this match of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Canada and South Africa teams were face to face. This match was being played in Oi Hockey Stadium South Pitch. This stadium is located in Shinagawa City, Yashio, Japan.
Here is the head to head record between Canada and South Africa men at the #Olympics.
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They have met only once and that was in 2008.
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First Half Canada 2-2 South Africa
From the beginning of the first half, the South African team started strongly. In the second minute, Nqobile Mansuet scored a brilliant goal to give his team a 2-0 lead in the opening minute.
Q1: 🇨🇦 0-1 🇿🇦
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No time wasted by RSA to take the lead! In the second minute of this match, a wonderful team movement finds Nick Spooner in the D who crosses the ball for Nqobile Ntuli who scores.
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Nicholas Balfour scored a brilliant goal in the 9th minute and gave his team a 2-0 lead in this match.
Q1: 🇨🇦 0-2 🇿🇦
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What a fantastic work from Abdud Dayaan Cassiem on the left side. He goes past two players and literally offers the ball to Nick Spooner who scores his team's second goal.
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Soon the Canadian team also made a comeback. In the 11th minute, Mark Alistair John converted a penalty corner and scored the first goal for his team in this match.
Q1: 🇨🇦 1-2 🇿🇦
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PC goal for the Red Caribous ! Scott Tupper's shot is deflected home by Mark Pearson.
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Keegan Reginald’s brilliant goal in the 17th minute put the Canadian team at a 2-2 draw in this match.
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At the end of the first half the score was 2-2.
Second Half Canada 4-4 South Africa
The story of the second half also remained the same as the last half. Both the teams gave equal competition to each other. In the 34th minute, Matthew converted a penalty corner to give his team a 3-2 lead.
Q3: 🇨🇦 2-3 🇿🇦
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South Africa starts the second half like the first one: with an early goal! On PC, Matthew Guise-Brown's drag flick is palmed by Antoni Kindler but the balls comes back to him and he hits it in!
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The Canadian team also made a quick comeback when John Findlay Hammond scored a brilliant goal in the 42nd minute to level his team in this match.
The Canadian team came under pressure when Samkelo scored a brilliant goal in the 58th minute to give his team a 4–3 lead.
But even the Canadian team was not ready to lose today. In the very next minute, Gabriel Wing-Chuen scored a brilliant goal and made his team once again level in this match.
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Both the teams showed tremendous performance in this match. But there was no result of this match.
Hockey Canada vs South Africa Full Match Highlights: Tokyo Olympics 2020
This Thrilling encounter ended in a draw of 4-4 without any result.
