On June 6 & 7, six matches in Pool B and another six in Pool A were played in the Rabobank Hockey World Cup. Except the drawn men’s game between Korea and South Africa on Friday, every match ended with a decisive margin. In an upset Pool B game, Argentinian men thrashed the mercurial Black Sticks from New Zealand 3-1 and followed up their earlier 1-0 win over mighty Germans on Wednesday. In another game on Friday, German men found themselves in a tight corner once again as they lost to hosts Netherlands 0-1. By Friday most teams; men’s or women’s, from both pools had played 4 league games each, with the exception of all Pool B women’s teams and Pool B men’s teams of Netherlands and South Africa.