Statistical highlights after penultimate pool matches

When Germany drew Argentina 4-4 yesterday, it was Rio men’s hockey event’s third draw, a drawn match after 15 matches producing outright results.

9 out of 24 matches held so far were won by solitary goal margin, indicating the intensity of Rio contests.

24 matches so far witnessed 127 goals, out of which nearly half (61) in the first half.

77 players name figure in the scoreboard

Pool B produced collectively 29 more penalty corners than Pool A.

Over all, 183 penalty corners were produced.

Pool A saw 13 goals from penalty corners while the other pool has earned nearly thrice more.

Of the 31 penalty corner goals that came from Pool A, The Netherlands alone accounted for one third, netting 9 out of just 19 penalty corners.

Whereas, Australia performed very poorly at PCs, getting fructified only two out of a whopping 16.

Is Australia hiding anything? Only time will tell.

India is the only country to get almost 90 percent of its goal through penalty corners. India struck all but one goal from PCs.

Spain missed out ten penalty corners in one match, without converting even once, which is highest for any team in Rio.

Spain-Australia match must rank the most boring one. Spain did not get even single penalty corner. It had just two shots at goal. Australia wasted both the penalty corners it got in the match. It has just five shots at goal producing no goals.