La Dolfina trounce Pilara Piaget 17-9 in Tortugas Open: Match analysis
Veteran polo pro and World Number one ranked Adolfo Cambiaso scored an amazing twelve times and had an assist, as La Dolfina Dubai marked a commanding 17-9 victory over Pilara Piaget in the group match of the Tortugas Open, Emilio de Anchorena Cup Grand
Prix Audi at the Tortugas Country Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The team of La Dolfina not only won the game with a heavy margin but also proved their worth for winning the title of the Tortugas. The game was completely against expectations, as very few goals were scored from the field. It seemed that both teams particularly
La Dolfina will have to play an open-style match. However, it was not done and most of the goals were scored on penalty shots.
Presently, the team of La Dolfina is highest handicapped squad of the tournament with a 39-goal handicap. On the other side, the complete line-up of Pilara Piaget has changed and contesting the event together for the first time.
The match between the two teams started at a very fast pace with Cambiaso scoring all three goals through penalty conversions. The second chukker was not fruitful for La Dolfina, as they could not add any goal on the scoreboard. On the other side, the team
of Pilara scored a couple of goals of which one was scored by Hilario Ulloa as the other by Bautista Heguy.
The two teams showed similar performances in the third set of play and moved forward into the second half with an equal score. In the fourth set of play, the team of Pilara once again failed to perform well and La Dolfina increased their tally up to nine
goals. After showing a restful game in the fifth, La Dolfina destroyed the defensive line of Pilara in the last two frames and concluded the fixture with an amazing 17-9 victory.
The team of La Dolfina converted 12 penalty corners out of a total of 19. Ten of which were scored off the hands of Cambiaso while two were by Juan Martin Nero. From the other side, the Pilara team obtained five of the total nine goals through penalty conversions.
Bautista Heguy and Garcia Huidobro scored three and two goals respectively in the loss.
Though the final results did not show the real picture of the match, as the team Pilara also carried out similar number of attacks in the fixture.
The negative part of the game, veteran player of La Dolfina Pablo MacDonough received a severe injury and was replaced with Lucas James, the reserve player of the team. In the next match La Dolfina will meet with La Aguada, the other brilliant squad of the
event. The recovery of MacDonough is necessary for La Dolfina to maintain their high-profile winning streak.
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