Final Scores; King Power 9 - 6 Vikings | Venue: Cowdray Lawns 2
In the second of two highly contested matches, King Power made an offensive statement early in the contest with contributions from Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, Nico Pieres and James Harper. Counteracting the balanced efforts of King Power, Vikings’ Juan Martin Zubia answered with goals on the field and at the line to keep his team within two.
Responding with his second of the match, Srivaddhanaprabha provided King Power with some much-needed breathing room, as back-to-back goals from Vikings’ Diego Cavanagh and Zubia sliced into King Power’s 5-4 lead.
After trading goals to open the fourth, the two teams battled to take control of the momentum, with King Power finally breaking the stalemate to outscore the Vikings in the later stages of play. Relying on goals from Pieres and Mackenzie Weisz, King Power managed to hold Vikings to just one final conversion off the mallet of Zubia. With their first victory of the Gold Cup within reach, King Power dug in offensively to add a final goal from Pieres and seal the hard-fought victory 9-6.
Photographer: Mark Beaumont
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