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A furious Indian ladies’s hockey workforce coach Sjoerd Marijne on Wednesday described the 1-4 loss to Nice Britain as his aspect’s “worst match” on the ongoing Olympics and lambasted the gamers for failing to lift their sport within the essential match.
Marijne didn’t mince phrases in criticising his gamers after India wasted a number of probabilities to undergo their third consecutive defeat in Pool A, which reduces their quarterfinal probabilities.
“This was our worst match. We all the time attempt to play for a six (out of 10) for every particular person, and I don’t assume every particular person at this time performed for a six. Unhealthy selections, dangerous decisions and I’m fairly disillusioned by this,” the Dutchman mentioned after the match.
“The objective was too early, however the person performances simply weren’t adequate. I can preserve analysing what went fallacious tactically, but it surely begins with each particular person reaching their stage and that didn’t occur at this time.” India had earlier misplaced 1-5 to world no.1 the Netherlands earlier than slumping to a 0-2 defeat towards Germany.
Rani Rampal’s aspect will subsequent play Eire on Friday.
The Indians wanted at the very least a degree from this sport to be secure however they now must win their remaining two matches towards Eire and South Africa to harbour any hopes of qualifying for the knockout stage.
Regardless of the setback, Marijne Insisted that they nonetheless have an opportunity of progressing to the knockout spherical and requested his gamers to introspect.
“We nonetheless have probabilities. There are nonetheless six factors to get and that may be sufficient for the quarters. That’s what we’re all about, that’s our objective and that’s what I mentioned to the ladies,” the coach mentioned.
“However they (gamers) really want to assume how can this occur that our particular person stage went so down.” PTI
