Women's Field Hockey FIH Olympic Games Qualifier 2019

[heywoodu 14,910]

16 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

What you mean?

I had no idea Chile had a decent hockey team.

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I had no idea Chile had a decent hockey team.

 

They're no Argentina, but they are top 4 in Pan America.

[LDOG 2,416]

I don't remember the last time our team beat Chile by 4+ goals. This result was around what I expected. 

I'd say Chile even deserved a bit better, they were dominant on the first half.

[phelps 7,633]

38 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Italian team has no concept of passing and they don't even defend that well (conceding a million PC is not good defending). Just 2-0 is a good result considering this. 

 

The best players in the team are actually the few italians. All the argentinian girls are awful (not surprising considering almost all of them are from our regional leagues), which probably speaks volumes about the short depth of italian leagues that they have to take such players in the squad.

 

yeah, Field Hockey is not exactly a popular sport in Italy...no media coverage, no infrastructures (all the outdoor playing areas are only for football or, only in some regions and in any case in small measure, rugby, where we're not good either, but for different reasons than Hockey), no kids playing the game...

 

we can only rely on all those girls/boys with Italian heritage growing up in Countries where Field Hockey is at least a reasonably followed and practiced discipline...and Argentina, with their 25 or so million people with Italian origins (it doesn't matter if they date back a few or many years), is always the best place to find some hockey players good enough at least to participate in such kind of events...

 

p.s. however, at least the girls today were not destroyed by GER as it happened last summer against CAN in the Hockey series...

and tbh, today everything that could go against them, it went against them...including that silly mistake that led to the final series of penalty corners, the last one of them gifted Germany the second (hope killer) goal...

[NearPup 3,020]

First leg of  -  ended in a goalless draw. Ireland dominated the first half but the second half was fairly even.

[LDOG 2,416]

 0 - 0  

 

Ireland put lot of pressure on the canadians but they always have big problems to score goals (like at the World Cup where they scored only 1 or 0 in all their matches except one). I think Canada respect Ireland too much, they should really try to attack more tomorrow. Ireland is a better team but imo not THAT much a better team.

[dcro 10,210]

Ireland will go through either way if (when?) South Africa withdraws.

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

32 minutes ago, dcro said:

Ireland will go through either way if (when?) South Africa withdraws.

 

Assuming Germany and Great Britain get the job done. Should Ireland defeat Canada then if South Africa withdraws it would go to South Korea.

[nitinsanker 202]

I do not know how what happens to our hockey teams......... It is like they just freeze like deer in the headlights....... Wtf did they do against US......... Home advantage, a 5-1 victory in the first leg, playing US which is a has been team......... And India almost snatched a defeat from the jaws of victory . ........USA just smashed 4 goals...... F... 

Spoiler

Yes India won the quota 6-5

 

Edited November 3, 2019 by nitinsanker

[Grassmarket 3,362]

GBR 2 Chile 0 at half time, 5-0 on aggregate, so looks very comfortable for