Gonzalo Peillat who scored the first goal for Argentina expressed happiness over his own form in converting the penalty corners. “This was a very important goal. I’m happy that we scored two drag-flick goals today,” he said.

Argentine chief coach Carlos Retegui is a happy man. He was upbeat about his team’s performance: “We want to play more attacking and offensive hockey. We want to improve our style of playing. Beating the Netherlands, who are the Olympic silver medallists makes us really proud.”

Seve van Ass who scored the second goal said his team will focus on the future games. “We will forget this game and focus on the rest of thegames. We have made good steps in recent months so we will be sticking with our style of play. We just have to play better and we are ready for it,” he quipped.

He added that the style of play employed by the Netherlands was totally different to that of Argentina, and that was something the team needed to consider more in future encounters.

His sentiments were echoed by the other goal scorer for the Netherlands, Mink van der Weerden. “We were disappointed in our play today, but not shocked by the Argentinian performance. We made the mistake of letting them stifle our play. Then they hit us in the counter attack.”

On Saturday Argentina will take on Belgium: “Belgium is the team with the biggest growth over the past few years. This won’t be an easy game,’’ Weerdeen said.

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