Tokyo: Coach of the Indian Women’s Hockey Team who looked at Sjoerd Marijne on Wednesday described the losses 1-4 to the United Kingdom as the party “the worst match” of the ongoing Olympics and threw the players for failing to improve their game.
Marijne did not raise words in criticizing the players after India wasted several opportunities to suffer the third successive defeat in Pond A, which reduced their quarter-final chances.
Read Alsotokyo Olympics 2020: India lost 1-4 to the United Kingdom in a woman’s hockey, the Indians guilty of throwing opportunities in their first two matches and the trend continued on Wednesday at Hoki Oi Stadium as England punished them through strikes from Hannah Martin (2 And the 19th minute), Lily Outsley (41st minute) and Grace Balsdon (57 minutes).
“This is our worst match.
We always try to play for six (from 10) for each individual, and I don’t think each individual is currently playing for six.
Bad decisions, bad choices and I am quite disappointed with this,” said Dutchman After the match.
“The aim is too early, but individual shows are not good enough.
I can continue to analyze what is wrong in tactics, but it starts with each individual reaching their level and it doesn’t happen today.” India previously lost 1-5 to the world no.1 Dutch before slumping to a 0-2 defeat against Germany.
The side of Rani will play Ireland on Friday.
Indians need at least one point from this game to be safe but they must now win their two matches left against Ireland and South Africa to keep all the necessities of qualifying the Knockout stage.
Apart from setbacks, Marijne insisted that they still had the opportunity to advance to the knockout round and asked the players to introspect.
“We still have a chance.
There are still six points to get and it can be enough for a place to live.
That is our goal, that’s our goal and that’s what I say to the girls,” the coach said.
“But they (players) really need to think how this can happen so that our individual level goes down.”