Scotland men round off Prague trip with 7-1 win

Hamish ImrieCZECH REPUBLIC    1   SCOTLAND 7

Scotland completed the treble over higher ranked Czech Republic with a superb 7-1 victory in the final test match in Prague.

With the Scots in the final build-up phase for the World League round one next month, three convincing wins in three days must be a source of encouragement for coach Derek Forsyth.   The Scots were also on lethal scoring form in Prague with 17 goals and Alan Forsyth, Kenny Bain, Cammie Fraser and youngster Hamish Imrie were the main contributors.

It was Imrie who opened Scotland`s account, he broke into the circle from the right only to see his initial shot blocked by the goalkeeper, but the former Grange forward dived to latch on to the rebound and fired the ball into the roof of the net.

Imrie was on hand to double both his and Scotland`s tally, again he made his move down the right but this time he launched a reverse stick shot directly into the Czech net.

The scoring continued unabated with Kenny Bain making it three from a penalty corner shot that found the top left hand corner of the net.    Just on the interval there was a carbon copy set piece strike, this time it emanated from the stick of Dan Coultas for a half-time 4-0 lead.

The second half provided no respite for the home side, Fraser picked up a pass from Patrick Christie and sent a slap shot past the helpless Czech goalkeeper for the fifth.

The Czechs managed to pull one back when a penalty corner shot beat Steven McIlvarney, the Grove Menzieshill under-21 goalkeeper who was making his senior debut in Prague.

Undaunted the Scots again opened up the Czech defence leaving Fraser to fire another slap shot into the top right hand corner of the net.

The finale of the rout came when the Scots moved the ball from the left to the right, the resulting shot by Forsyth was blocked by the goalkeeper only for Christie to follow up to sink the rebound.

“It`s pleasing that we are still getting good results with nine changes and so many new players coming into the squad in the last year,” said Scotland coach Derek Forsyth.

“We`re also scoring a lot of goals from a spread of players, today we had five different scorers.”

 

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