Tokyo Olympics: “Worst Match,” Says India Women’s Hockey Team Coach On Loss To Great Britain

A livid Indian women’s hockey staff mentor Sjoerd Marijne on Wednesday described the 1-four loss to Excellent Britain as his side’s “worst match” of the ongoing Olympics and lambasted the gamers for failing to elevate their game in the vital match. Marijne did not mince terms in criticising his gamers following India squandered various probabilities to experience their third consecutive defeat in Pool A, which cuts down their quarterfinal probabilities. “This was our worst match. We normally attempt to perform for a 6 (out of ten) for every particular person, and I don”t consider every particular person today performed for a 6. Undesirable conclusions, bad choices and I am really let down by this,” the Dutchman said following the match.

“The goal was much too early, but the particular person performances just weren’t good sufficient. I can hold analysing what went improper tactically, but it starts off with just about every particular person achieving their stage and that did not transpire today.”

India had before lost 1-5 to earth no.1 the Netherlands before slumping to a -2 defeat from Germany.

Rani Rampal’s side will subsequent perform Eire on Friday.

The Indians needed at least a place from this game to be harmless but they now will have to get their remaining two matches from Eire and South Africa to harbour any hopes of qualifying for the knockout stage.

In spite of the setback, Marijne Insisted that they nonetheless have a chance of progressing to the knockout round and questioned his gamers to introspect.

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“We nonetheless have probabilities. There are nonetheless 6 points to get and that can be sufficient for the quarters. That’s what we’re all about, that’s our goal and that’s what I said to the girls,” the mentor said.

“But they (gamers) genuinely will need to consider how can this transpire that our particular person stage went so down.”