Germany beat India by 1-7 in FIH world league
Rotterdam: India suffered a humiliating 1-7 thrashing against Germany to end their pool engagements in the women’s competition of the FIH World League Round 3 on Sunday.
Vandana Katariya scored the lone goal for India in the 43rd minute.
Fifth-ranked Germany got five penalty corners from which they converted two. India, ranked 12th, got two penalty corners which they could not convert to any goal.
With today’s loss, their second in the group stage, India ended the pool phase with one point which they earned from their 1-1 draw against Belgium. Germany topped Pool B with nine points with an all-win record.
The Ritu Rani-led side are likely to play against Pool A topper or runners-up in the knock-out phase which begins on Tuesday. All the eight teams — four each in the two pools — will still play in the quarterfinal phase as the preliminary matches are only meant to decide who plays whom in the knock-out stage.
The last-place team of one pool plays the topper of the other pool and so on.
