Antwerp: India's vulnerabilities in defence and their strikers' hesitancy was exposed for the second time in as many matches, as Great Britain taught them a lesson in fast and furious modern hockey built on counter-attacks and penalty corners conversions.


India's players. Pic/AFP 

Great Britain won 5-1 to take the third place yesterday and with it came an Olympic Qualification for Rio next year. Both coach Paul Van Ass and skipper Sardar Singh agreed on the fact that the defence needed to be strengthened and that India gave away too many goals in counter-attacks.