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Sloppy India lose to England
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Sloppy defending cost India dearly as Sam Ward scored a brace for England to hand the home team a heart-breaking 2-3 defeat in a hard-fought Pool B match of the Hockey World League (HWL) Final, in Bhubaneswar, on Saturday.
Bhubaneswar: Sloppy defending cost India dearly as Sam Ward scored a brace for England to hand the home team a heart-breaking 2-3 defeat in a hard-fought Pool B match of the Hockey World League (HWL) Final, in Bhubaneswar, on Saturday.
Ward (43rd, 57th minutes) struck two field goals for England after David Goodfield gave them the lead in the 25th minute.
India's both goals came from penalty corner conversions by Akashdeep Singh (47th) and Rupinderpal Singh (50th).
It was a dull first quarter as both the teams failed to create any real scoring opportunities despite playing fast, aggressive hockey. The Indians were nowhere near to the level that they displayed in their first match against Australia.
If the Indians looked orgainsed and controlled against the Kookaburras on Friday, it was completely the opposite, at least in the first quarter, on Saturday.
Meanwhile, in the other Pool B game of the day, Germany and Australia played out a 2-2 draw.
Marco Miltkau (7th minute) and skipper Martin Haner (58th) scored for the Germany while Australia's goals came from the sticks of Blake Govers (39th) and Aaron Kleinschmidt (49th).
Australia will finish off the pool engagements against England on Monday It was a day of upsets in the Pool A matches of the Hockey World League (HWL) Final, in Bhubaneswar, on Saturday, as Belgium and Spain stunned Olympic champions Argentina and European champions Netherlands in their opening matches of elite eight-nation tournament.
While Belgium shocked world number one Argentina 2-3, lowest-ranked team of the tournament, Spain pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament so far by defeating World Cup silver medallist Netherlands by an identical margin.
It was an exciting, end-to-end affair between the two Rio Games finalists but it was the Red Lions who drew the first blood in the ninth minute when Loick Luypaert converted a penalty corner.
It was Argentina all the way in the last three minutes of the game but Belgium defended stoutly to held on to their lead.
Meanwhile in the second match of Pool A, Spain, ranked ninth in the world, punched above their weight to outclass two-time Olympic champions Netherlands. Spain scored their goals through Pau Quemada (15th minute), Enrique Gonzalez (35th) and Diego Arana (39th), while Lars Balk (37th) and Mirco Pruijser (55th) were the goal getters for the Dutchmen.
