Gollum Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 29 minutes ago, Frustrated said: Can't blame the Indian fans for not bothering to watch the hockey games, if our team is this s**t. It might sound harsh, but that's the reality. Such folks are gloryhunters, bandwagoners, not fans. Real fans support their players and teams in their bad times. Indian hockey and other sports don't need such fickle so called supporters/patriots who will tune in to cheer them once in 4 years and start deriding them the minute things go awry. No wonder India has zero sports culture. Norman and Lord 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 17 hours ago, speedracer said: Ned Aus Belgium Germany All the best teams in semis. One tournament isn't the be all, end all. If you look at performances in last few years, Germany isn't above India, definitely not. Even Argentina and England are at Germany's level more or less. The top 3 however are a class apart. speedracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Harmanpreet's mental checkout was the clincher. Otherwise we have shown top 4 level despite nerves, poor form, Hardik's injury. Ind-NZ was a proper fluke, pit this India against Germany and we will beat them more often than not. Seen all top teams this tourney, only Aus, Bel, Neth are insurmountable for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Gollum said: Harmanpreet's mental checkout was the clincher. Otherwise we have shown top 4 level despite nerves, poor form, Hardik's injury. Ind-NZ was a proper fluke, pit this India against Germany and we will beat them more often than not. Seen all top teams this tourney, only Aus, Bel, Neth are insurmountable for us. Dint we draw vs Belgium in Tokyo? Netherlands got lucky vs india last time as well. Remember that game well. Ref was fully against us. I feel we do quite well vs Germans and nedtherlands. Problem is australia. The one team that just knows how to destroy us. Even Belgium v india lot of them has been close games. Edited January 26 by speedracer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, Frustrated said: Can't blame the Indian fans for not bothering to watch the hockey games, if our team is this s**t. It might sound harsh, but that's the reality. our cricket team was **** in 90s yet everyone watched Its just an excuse Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordPrabhzy Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 after scoring no goals in the first half India win 8-0 against Japan. Did Japan send in their reserves after half time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, LordPrabhzy said: India still cannot score against Japan 3PC and all misses meanwhile other teams put 7/8 goals past these minnow nations Germany beat Japan 3-0 Belgium beat Japan 7-1 We beat Japan 8-0 Now what? We played better against Eng than Germany, better against Spain than Aussies. NZ result was fluke. Hardik's ouster after the Eng game rattled us, and Harmanpreet's no show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Lord said: our cricket team was **** in 90s yet everyone watched Its just an excuse Even now in test cricket we have worse W/L than Lanka and Pakistan, imagine being 3rd best in South Asia after so many decades in the sport. Tiny 3rd world Lanka (population less than half of NCR) makes us sweat in ICC events, Asia Cups, won an ICC title more recently than us. Negative H2H against all major teams, worse than minnows in 40s, 50s, 60s, large part of 70s and 80s. Between 1986 and 2001 we had only 2 overseas test wins, one in Dhaka and the other in Colombo. But yeah let us forget all that and bash all other Indian sports teams/players. Edited January 26 by Gollum Lord and speedracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 44 minutes ago, speedracer said: Dint we draw vs Belgium in Tokyo? Netherlands got lucky vs india last time as well. Remember that game well. Ref was fully against us. I feel we do quite well vs Germans and nedtherlands. Problem is australia. The one team that just knows how to destroy us. Even Belgium v india lot of them has been close games. We drew Belgium in last WC, outplayed them. We matched them for 3 quarters in Tokyo before Manpreet's yellow. You are right, Dutch did beat us in a controversial match in last WC's QF. Dubious refereeing there as well. We do well against Germans, worse (but not hopeless) against Belgium and Dutch. Against Aussies we lose our heads, forget recent hammerings.....we dominated them in 2 previous Champions Trophy finals (against their full strength teams) and still managed to lose to them in shootouts. Both India and Pakistan match very well against Argentina though. speedracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Pakistan were good in hockey cause you need to bend alot in hockey. Bending masters used to excel. Maybe they should bend 5 times like they used to if they wish to compete again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Amazing SF Aus vs Germany Aussies scored 2 in first qtr. Germans dominated after that. 2-2 now in 4th qtr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollingstoned Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Damn Germany win with 3 seconds on fhe clock and make it 4-3. Can't say it isn't deserved either with the amount of chances and circle penetration they had from the 2nd quarter on. Australia won't make the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Aus go 3-2 up 5 minutes to go. Germany equalize 2 minutes to go. 13 seconds to go Aus pick a yellow card. 6 seconds to go Germany scores a winner. Thriller. Heartbreak for Aussies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Unbelievable choke by Aussies, Germans through to the final. Entertaining, high scoring game, Gemans were 0-2 down at one stage, winner with 7 seconds left in clock. OMG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandz Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) 5 minutes ago, rollingstoned said: Damn Germany win with 3 seconds on fhe clock and make it 4-3. Can't say it isn't deserved either with the amount of chances and circle penetration they had from the 2nd quarter on. Australia won't make the final. Excellent game. Can't feel bad for Aussies they have won big tournaments many times in last 10 years. Edited January 27 by Number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandz Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 In hockey one can never relax until the final whistle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Gemany was the better side, double the circle penetrations as Aus. Well deserved winners but we all thought it would go to shootout. Getting carded in final 12 odd seconds, and that defensive lapse at the end, choke choke choke. Btw after Aussies went 3-2 up with some 3-4 minutes left, Germany took out its keeper. 2 goals after that, what a brilliant game!!!!!! Amazing, amazing, mazaa aa gya aaj toh. Number 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordPrabhzy Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Wow trailing 2-0 and winning 4-2. Great win Germany. I predict a Germany vs Belgium final clash- the dutch might choke tonight Number 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickydev Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Wow didn't expect that. Germany what a turnaround Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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