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German equalizer disallowed after referral (stick above the height of player's shoulder)
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Germany score 2-2
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Team video referral (equivalent of DRS in cricket) is a good thing imo
Penalty corner awarded after referral
Germany score and in the the lead for the first time 3-2
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Can you believe it! Germany make it 4-2, beautiful finish
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Germany thru to the final despite being twice behind
The better team won, outwitted Australia in the second half
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Disappointing 7th place after narrowly defeating S Korea 3-2 today!
On the bright side, Pak the best Asian hockey team after beating Korea!
but nowhere near as good as the top European teams and Australia
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Netherlands 1 - GB 0
Holland score - again from a penalty corner!
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Dutch leading GB 2-0 (both goals coming from penalty corners even though the ball wasn't stopped cleanly the second time)
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GB make it 2-1. It is all penalty corner show at the moment
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3-1 to Netherlands (all goals scored from penalty corners)
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Holland scores 6 field goals in a row. Wow. Pakistan is lucky to not have to play Germany or Holland in the tournament.
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Yeah if you thought Pakistan's 7-0 loss to Australia was bad, have a look at the remarkable second semifinal scoreline** 9-2**
Dutch toying with Britain. They look favourites to take hockey gold. Remember The Netherlands beat Germany 3-1 in the pool game, infact they are the only team to have won all their games so far
Since the mid-90s, it has all been about The Netherlands, Australia and Germany. The other teams need not bother turning up for hockey events
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GB got schooled
Aus will win the Medal
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Feel sorry for mahan Integlaterra!
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^ 
Mera Germany Mahan 
Atleast Silver-Medal is sure 
But high time The Hockey Team emulates the Football team in regards to contests with Holland
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Strong words
**Easier group saved us from rock-bottom finish: Islah
Pakistan could have been playing the 11th position match instead of the seventh position one had the Green-shirts been playing in Group ‘B’ instead of ‘A’ at the London Olympics, said Olympian Islahuddin Siddiqui.Speaking to Dawn from London soon after Pakistan edged past Korea 3-2 in the classification match to end up seventh in the Olympic hockey event, Islah said we could have been in India’s shoes but were lucky to be playing in the easier group among teams that didn’t carry that much weight.
“So the boys and team management should be ashamed of themselves if they think they achieved something by coming seventh out of the 12 participating teams,” he fumed.
Laying bare the statistics, he said: “In the five group matches that Pakistan played in the current Olympics, they won two, lost two and drew one. Doing so, they scored nine goals and conceded 16.
“Then if you look at our penalty-corners, we managed to get 12 of them in the first four matches as the last one against Australia saw us not even getting a single penalty-corner. Of these 12 we managed to convert just three.
“This shows a 25 per cent conversion rate in the group matches while the minimum should be 35 per cent. Meanwhile, the other five teams got 21 penalty-corners against us,” he pointed out.
“So looking at the goals conceded, one can figure out our team’s defence. And speaking of defence, what to say about the key person there, our goalkeeper Imran Shah! Now, if we had the seasoned Salman Akbar in the squad we may not have conceded so many goals. If any of the other 12 teams taking part in the competition also brought one goalkeeper, it was their best and most experienced man as no one takes such a big risk on a newcomer.
“Looking at our poor defence, we never had a chance to make it to the top four,” **the expert pointed out.
“Obviously disappointed at having to play for seventh place, South Korea played the placement match halfheartedly though Pakistan really looked like they wanted to win this match to come back and tell the nation that they have bettered their eighth position of four years ago [in Beijing] by a spot,” said the former captain and coach.
“And yet they missed nine chances while their opponents missed eight in the placement match. Constant missing by Shafqat Rasool, Waqas Sharif was witnessed and the rest of our forward line. Pakistan got three penalty-corners, too, and captain Sohail Abbas couldn’t convert them as only the last one was converted by Mohammad Imran,” he said.
“Our missing ratio was very high in all the six matches that we played. It just shows that the team lacked proper training and was playing without any strategy,” he lamented.
**“So this is where we stand, at number seven. And if we want to improve on that, we will now have to wait for the next Olympics in Rio De Janeiro in 2016. But seeing how things are at the moment who knows if we’ll even qualify for those Games,” he concluded with a sigh.
**Easier group saved us from rock-bottom finish: Islah | DAWN.COM
interesting comments!
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My prediction
Holland - Gold
Germany - Silver
Australia - Bronze
As well as the Germans played against World Champions Australia in the SF esp. in the second half, justice will be served if the Dutch beat Germany and take Hockey gold. They are the only team to have won all their games in this tournament. Besides the Dutch beat the Germans 3-1 in their pool match
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The Dutch women’s team has already won Olympic Hockey Gold, beat World Champions Argentina 2-0
BBC Sport - Netherlands women win Olympic hockey gold
GB women’s team beat NZ 3-1 to win Bronze medal
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My prediction
Holland - Gold Germany - Silver Australia - Bronze
I hope, wish and Pray ur Prediction is wrong about Gold and Silver :D
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Dutch for gold tonight! Yesss!:)