GB coach slams team as they slide down to Poles

Great Britain hockey coach Jason Lee admitted his players had failed to rise to the occasion as they lost 2-1 to Poland in their opening match of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Madrid.

Despite winning nine penalty corners and dominating for long periods, GB were undone by a late set-piece strike from Tomasz Dutkiewicz which went through Reading goalkeeper Simon Mason's legs.

Lee said: "I am very, very disappointed. Individually, we played below average.

"A lot of the teams have done very well with corner conversion rates and I would expect us to get two or three goals from nine corners and we were well off that."