GERMANY stunned Holland 1-0 in the men’s hockey at the Paris Olympics to secure a spot in the quarter-finals as the Australian, Argentine, Belgian and Dutch women’s teams also progressed to the knockout stage.
Niklas Wellen, the Germany skipper, found a sliver of space in the third minute for the only score of a tight Pool A game in which attritional defences limited shots on net on a humid afternoon at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium.
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