Capitalising on the Indian lapses in a fast-paced encounter, the Netherlands secured their passage into the semifinals. Carrying forward three points from their preliminary round win over Argentina, the Dutch now have six points and assured of a place among the two top teams in the second stage round-robin league's Pool E.

India, who lost to England and came into the second stage without any points, are yet to earn their first point in the second stage that has replaced the quarterfinals in this World Cup. India will face Argentina in the last group fixture on Monday and then go into the playoffs for minor positions.

Four-time champions the Netherland set a very fast pace that India did well to match throughout the encounter. India were desperate to earn at least one point from this encounter, but failed to capitalise on the few chances that came their way, and only managed to score once from the six penalty corners earned. Yet, it was two defensive lapses that proved India's undoing.

Far from being overawed by the reigning Olympic champions playing on their home turf in a packed stadium, Paris Olympic bronze medallists India matched the fancied Netherlands raid for raid.

India opened the contest with the first long ball into the Dutch circle, but there was no striker in position to deflect it. The Dutch responded to reach the top of the Indian circle and were dispossessed.

Dilpreet Singh made a foray into the circle from the right in the ninth minute, weaving his way past two defenders, but was unable to find a team-mate to collect his pass in the ninth minute. Soon after, Dutch striker Floris Wortelboer was shaping for a reverse drive at the Indian goal, but Sukhjeet Singh did well to mark him tightly inside the circle and the shot went wide to the right.

Netherlands earned their first penalty corner in the 13th minute when the ball struck Indian defender Sanjay on the foot, but Jip Jansen failed to pose any threat as rusher Sumit cleared his flick for a corner.

Netherlands came out charging in the second quarter, forcing three penalty corners in a row in the 16th minute, yet failed to get a leeway though the Indian defence, which stood its ground with confidence against Jansen's penalty corner drives.

Vivek Sagar Prasad worked his way into the scoring zone in the 20th minute and sent a square ball into the goalmouth, only to see the chance go waste as there was no striker in position to capitalise.

Three minutes later, another Indian raid put pressure on the Dutch defence when Abhishek's diagonal ball from right was trapped by Dilpreet Singh in the circle, but the goalkeerper was right in front of him and the weak push was easily passed away. The rebound, however, went to Rajinder Singh on top of the scoring zone. A flash strike by Rajinder could have posed immense danger to the Dutch defence that with in disarray, but he decided to move deep into the circle and the opportunity was lost.

The first half ended goalless but not before Indian goalkeeper HS Mohit brought off a fine save on a goal-bound flick by Tjep Hoedemakers from an acute angle on the left.

India earned two successive penalty corners in the 35th minute, but only after video referrals to bring the Dutch infringements to the umpire's notice. Captain Harmanpreet's penalty corner drag-flick just went wide of the right post.

A defensive lapse on a goalmouth scrimmage saw the Indian goal fall for the first time in the 4st minute. A rebound went toward Tijmen Reyana on top of the circle and he sent a forward pass to Duco Telgankamp, whose reverse flick slowly went over the goalline past counfounded goalkeeper Suraj Karkera.

India tried to bounce back and went charging out for an equaliser, forcing a series of penalty corners but the Dutch defensive wall could not be penetrated.

With gaps in the Indian defence opening up as they tried to attack relentlessly, Netherlands increased the lead in the 51st minute as a long diagonal ball from Koen Bijen was defelected into the goal by Hoedemakers.

Just as the game was sliping away, Indian skipper Harmanpreet brought them back into the contest with a stinging penalty corner shot that sounded the boards in the 52nd minute.

Then came a midfield lapse by seasoned Manpreet Singh, who failed to keep control of the ball in the centre as India were going into the attack. This led to a counter attack in which the Indian defence was left wide open. The Indian goalkeeper found himself alone in front of three strikers in the circle and could only watch Thijs van Dam flick into the open goal despite Manpreet making a desperate attempt to smash the bouncing ball out of the goalmouth.