Argentina dominated the entire match and the India team struggled to coordinate during the entire match.
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After the inaugural match, the Argentina team was returning to Hotel Babylone located at the VIP Roadbeing escorted by armed security personnel when one of the stones pelted by the youths shattered a glass pane.
This has led to review of the security situation and the officials have chose to tighten the security and take measures to counter such issues. Ramandeep Singh did come close to entering the opposition striking circle, but fumbled while to receiving the ball. In the 60-minute encounter, India had only three more shots at goal as compared to Argentina’s 13. BT Sports will be telecasting live hockey world league final 2015 match between India and Germany in United Kingdom region.
India, in contrast, was disjointed, dispirited and in disarray despite better possession (52 %). “So far we have scored only one in the tournament”, Oltmans said.
The Indians were completely outplayed by Argentina in the majority of the opening half by creating a number of scoring opportunities. “I am happy with the overall performance, but of course there is always room for improvement and that’s what we will try to find out”, he said. “It was a great game for us”.
“I am pleased with our performance against Germany but the big challenge is to maintain that level until the end of the tournament”.
“We should realise that Germany is known, for years, as the best defending team”. “In 22 hours we play Germany, another tough match. What I saw today, I don’t want to see it anymore”.
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India dished out a superlative performance yesterday to hold the mighty Germans to a 1-1 draw. Furste was carried away on a stretcher and he he returned to the bench with a bandaged knee. A detailed investigation on the injury will be carried on later today.
