Eight-time Olympic champions India led the way to their second consecutive bronze medal. But the Spaniards took the lead from a penalty kick late in the first half. In the second half, India took advantage of one chance after another. They failed to score from the spot but scored two from the spot, and India celebrated another bronze medal after Tokyo.
India's Harmanpreet Singh also became the tournament's top scorer with ten goals. India's goalkeeper B.R. Sreejesh played his last match for the Indian national team. Sreejesh played over 300 matches for the Indian national team and in 2021, FIFA named him the best goalkeeper of the season.
In the final, three-time winners Germany and two-time Olympic champions the Netherlands met. The two teams have met six times in the past two years, three of which were decided on penalties. The Germans won 3-1 in Tokyo and 1-0 in Paris in the group stage.
In the quiet first three quarters, both teams had six shots on goal. In the final quarter, things got better. In the 46th minute Thierry Brinkmann He fired the ball into the net from close range to give the world-ranked Dutch the lead. Defending World Cup champions Germany four minutes later Thies Prinz They tied with his goal. No goals were scored in the first two rounds of the shootout, but the Dutch scored the next three goals, thus becoming Olympic champions for the third time after 1996 and 2000.
After the match, one of the Dutch players pointed at the German goalkeeper, which led to a small fight.
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Bronze match
India-Spain 2-1
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Germany-Netherlands 1-1 – Penalty shootout 1-3
Olympic Champion: Netherlands (Lars Balk, Koen Bijnen, Pirmin Black, Justin Block, Thierry Brinkman, Jorrit Jan Willem Kroon, Jonas De Geus, Floris Middendorp, Joep De Mol, Dirk De Velder, Tjip Hoedemaekers, Jeppe Jansen, Doku Telgenkamp, Sev van As, Thijs van Dam, Floris Wortelboer)
2. Nemitorszaj (Jan-Paul Danneberg, Mats Grambusch, Johannes Gross, Theo Hinrichs, Paul Philipp Kaufmann, Moritz Ludwig, Marco Meltkau, Hans Müller, Matthias Müller, Gonzalo Pilat, Thijs Prinz, Christopher Rush, Justus Wiegand, Niklas Wellen, Lukas Windwieder, Martin Zwicker)
3. India (Abhishek Abhishek, Raj Kumar Pal, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Sreejesh Bharat Ravindran, Amit Rohidas, Sanjay Sanjay, Gurjant Singh, Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Garmanpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Manpreet Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Shamsher Singh, Sumit Sumit, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay)
