FIH Pro Hockey League 2024/25: India Suffer Second Loss To Netherlands

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The Indian men’s hockey team suffered a narrow loss in their 2nd match against Netherlands played at Amsterdam on 9th June 2025.

It was an ideal start for the visitors as Abhishek missed a golden chance as the shot went wide off goal post. Both teams showed their class with end-to-end hockey, but defence was solid enough. Netherlands earned penalty corner but could not convert it into a goal. At the end of the first quarter, the scores remained 0-0.

Netherlands began the second quarter piling pressure on the Indian team. India earned their first penalty corner as the shot from Rajkumar Pal went wide. Abhishek produced a powerful stroke inside D leaving Netherlands goalkeeper in shock giving India 1-0 lead in the 20th minute. Van Dam scored a superb deflection goal with lovely skills by Brinkmann in the 24th minute to allow the hosts level the scores at 1-1.   Both teams involved in high octane game with Jugraj Singh getting injured. Abhishek also got injured with involvement against Netherlands player. At the end of the first half, scores remained 1-1.

Tjep Hoedemakers scored a superb field goal in 33rd minute to give Netherlands a 2-1 lead which left the Indian defence in shock. India earned multiple penalty corners but all three went in vain. They earned another penalty corner but this time the shot was blocked by Netherlands defence. At the end of third quarter, Netherlands led 2-1.

Indian team started the fourth quarter on a positive note with aggression. They kept piling on the pressure, but Netherlands remained solid not giving any chances. Jugraj Singh converted 2nd penalty corner in the 54th minute to level the scores at 2-2. Harmanpreet Singh was not there to take penalty corner. Lalit Upadhyay could not beat goalkeeper on one-to-one situation.

With 3 minutes left on the clock, Janssen scored powerful penalty corner in the 57th minute to give Netherlands 3-2 lead. Indian team decided to move goalkeeper away. It was a good performance by Harmanpreet Singh led side.

Indian team earned 9 penalty corners and converted only 1 while Netherlands scored 1 from the 2 PC’s they earned.

They will now play Argentina on 11th and 12th June. Indian team would love to take positives from these two games against Netherlands and earn points against Argentina.

 


   






Indian men's hockey team suffer 2-3 loss to Netherlands on 9th June 2025. 

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