Medal series ends: Hockey women fail to Argentina - Germany hockey

From the dream of the fifth Olympic medal in series: Germany's hockey ladies return for the first time for 21 years without noble metal from summer games. The team of national coach Xavier Reckinger lost on Monday in Tokyo in the quarterfinals against Argentina with 0: 3 (0: 2) and left. Agustina Albertarrio in the 27th minute, Maria Jose Granatto (29.) and Valentina Raposo (52nd) shot the deserved victory for the clear superior South Americans.

The DHB ladies stayed in 2000 in Sydney last time without a medal at Olympia. Then it had given twice gold (2008, 2012) and twice bronze (2004, 2016). Precious metal was also in Tokyo the goal - but it should not be.

German team does not come into the game

The German team, which had completed the preliminary round as second behind World Champion Netherlands, came to the defensive at the beginning of the game. Argentina dominated that happening and made the all-in-black DHB ladies with susky heat of over 30 degrees hardly come to the unfolding.

The offensive wave of the South Americans had little to oppose Germany. After all, the defense stood at first, so that even three criminals in the first quarter were flawless. Also in the second quarter Argentina remained on the pusher. Torfrau Julia Sunday had to prove her whole a few times to prevent a residue first. In the German game, however, much had happened. Dangerous attacks: Funding.

Gain as a logical sequence

So it was just a matter of time until the two-time world champion from Argentina could cheer for the first time. Albertario closed a beautiful combination of Nahensanz. Shortly before the pause increased Granatto. After the change, the German team came back to the field with more energy and now pressed the connection. But the efforts were unsuccessful in the third quarter because the few possibilities were not recycled.

So only the hope for a successful final spurt remained, but they removed. Again and again, the German players were stuck in the compact defense of the opponent. The third goal by raposo after a criminal area finally sealed the Olympic knockout of the EM-Second, whose resistance was finally broken.

Altenburg: "Meet and conviction missing"

"It did not fit together. That we are so besides us, we did not expect," Player Lisa Altenburg said after the game - and on, "We were missing the courage and conviction. That's a day you prefer strokes the memory. "

Water, air, sand and dummer jubilation