A great game to watch, a real attacking masterclass. The clash of styles was a great advertisement for world netball. Nweke was just way too strong for the Malawi defenders and all of the NZL attackers were steady. By far their best performance.
Too many silly errors in the second half from Malawi and the intensity just died a bit after Kumwenda missed those two shots and the margin blew out to 10+. Hopefully the injury to Lwazi wasn’t too serious, it looked like a cramp to me. Mvula will dominate in ANZP with more experience. It would be nice to see Galeta get a VNSL contract as well, she has such speed and creativity but is a little bit more steady than Lwazi in my opinion. She’s also younger and taller.
I don’t think the Ferns will make the Gold Medal match, not because they played badly but rather because they actually played as well as they have recently and they still couldn’t shake the Malawi attack end for about 40 minutes. They just don’t have the personnel across WD, GD and GK to compete with the best teams. Bronze would be a good achievement considering the opposition and the loss of Watson, Burger and Ekenasio.
