Bhubaneswar: The Men’s Hockey World Cup series is underway in Odisha. In this yesterday at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, the Netherlands, who are in the ‘C’ category, played against the Chile team in their last league match. In this, the Netherlands team scored 14-0 and scored a huge victory.
With this, the Netherlands set a record as the team that scored the most goals in the World Cup. Earlier in the 2010 World Cup in Delhi, Australia had won the match against South Africa by 12-0. This has now been overtaken by the Netherlands.
On behalf of the team, Johnson Zip scored 4 goals (6th, 29th, 34th, 44th minutes), Brinkman Thierry 3 goals (25th, 33rd, 58th minutes) and Bijen Koen scored 2 goals (40th, 45th minute). Along with them, De Wilderterg (22nd minute), Ven Damtijs (23rd minute), Pieters Terrence (37th minute), Blagjusten (42nd minute) and Beans Dean (48th minute) scored a goal each.
It was a hat-trick for the Netherlands. In all 3 games of the league round, the Netherlands team has hunted a total of 22 goals. With 3 wins, the Netherlands topped Group ‘C’ with 9 points and qualified directly for the quarter finals. After losing all 3 games, the Chilean team was eliminated from the series.
England registered their 2nd win in Division ‘D’ with a 4-0 win over Spain in their last league match. England’s goal difference of 9 means India can only qualify directly for the quarter-finals if they win their last match against Wales by at least 8-0.
But in the match against the Wales team, the Indian team managed to win by 4-2. Although India and England had 7 points each at the end of the league round, England topped Group ‘D’ on goal difference and qualified directly for the quarter-finals. The goal difference of the English team was 9 while the goal difference of the Indian team was only 4. 2nd seeded India have been forced to play 3rd seeded Spain in a crossover match to qualify for the quarter finals.
The Indian team will face New Zealand on the 22nd in the cross over match. If they win, they will qualify for the quarter finals.
