Features

Brave GB go down in penalty shoot out loss to the Poles

Monday, 14th April 2008

Team GB 1-1 Poland (Poland win 1-0) in penalty shoot out

Team GB gained a valuable point as they opened their World Championship campaign against the 2nd seeded Poland side on Sunday afternoon in Innsbruck. The Poles eventually took two points to GB's one after overtime and a penalty shoot out in which Krzysztof Zapala was the only scorer.

Poland started the stronger and scored the only goal of the first period when Macief Urbanowicz scored with a deflected shot from the point that beat GB goalie Stevie Lyle. As the game progressed though GB's confidence grew as Lyle made some outstanding saves and then chances fell to Warren Tait, Greg Chambers and Greg Owen.

The middle period saw GB get back on level termsas just seconds after Lyle made the stop of the night, Basingstoke Bison forward Greg Chambers, playing in his first senior international, went end to end and shot past Polish goalie Rafal Radziszewski.

Both teams failed to take power play chances as the game opened up in the third period with GB having more of the play as the game came to its conclusion. The match went into sudden death overtime after a scoreless final period, GB had a late power play opportunity only to be denied by desperate Polish defending.

The lottery of penalty shots followed with Messrs: Chambers, David Clarke and David Longstaff all failing to score past Radziszewski and Zapala shooting a backhand high over the shoulder of Lyle for the game winner.

Related reads

Basingstoke's Greg Chambers goes close in the penalty shoot out

Basingstoke's Greg Chambers goes close in the penalty shoot out


Join our 200 Club

Manchester Phoenix Supporters Club

Sign up for the Phoenix Newsletter