What happens whilst you pitch members of Leicester City's Premier League winning team against the most productive of Team GB hockey?Well firstly you get your camera ready. You then ask in the event that they fancied pitching their talents against one another in a BetStars Challenge.

This is strictly what our friends over at BetStars did as Danny Simpson, Marc Albrighton, and Christian Fuchs of Leicester City FC swapped football boots for hockey sticks to look if their soccer skills would transfer to the hockey pitch.

Hoping to prove them wrong were Maddie Hinch and Helen Richardson-Walsh of Team GB's gold medal winning hockey team. When they provided a snappy introduction to the game, hero keeper "Mad-dog" Hinch challenged the players to a penalty shootout - the easiest method to put their new found skills to the test.

The challenge was simple. Each player would get three attempts to attain past Hinch.

You might think this can be relatively simple for Premier League winners like Simpson, Albrighton, and Fuchs, but they were up against arguable the most efficient keeper in hockey presently. Hinch rose to national prominence on the Olympic Games in Rio this year where she saved all four penalties fired at her within the final against The Netherlands. That was enough to secure gold and permanent hero status. This will likely not be easy.

Albrighton though managed to succeed where the Dutch failed, scoring two of his three penalty attempts. There has been less success for Christian Fuchs and Danny Simpson who only managed to seek out the back-board on one occasion while Simpson was unable to score.

Following the hockey shootout, the challenge took an unexpected twist because the Leicester players took football penalties against Hinch, before Christian Fuchs padded as much as try his hand in goal.

Albrighton was clearly proud of his performance within the challenge:

"It's an absolute honour to win the BetStars Call It trophy; it's one in every of my proudest moments even perhaps surpassing winning the Premier League title."

Speaking in regards to the players' performance within the challenge, Hinch said:

"I think they did well, they focussed somewhat an excessive amount of on me from time to time in preference to the ball, which meant there have been a couple of swings and misses. They've definitely got plenty to work on however it was an excellent effort they usually managed to attain a few good goals."

"We like a challenge at BetStars, so pitting champions from two sporting worlds against one another is true up our street," said Zeno Ossko, Director of Sportsbook, BetStars. "After somewhat coaching from Helen, it was surprising to look that the Leicester boys were significantly better at scoring past Maddie than the Dutch were within the Olympics. Congratulations to Marc who came out on top - you'll be able to back him at 14/1 to attain first against Palace on Saturday."

To see exclusive footage from the BetStars Hockey ShootoutChallenge, click below.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley.

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