Jeroen Delmee of the Netherlands battles with GB's Craig Parnham
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Great Britain's Olympic qualification hopes suffered a further setback when they lost 3-0 to the Netherlands in the qualifying event in Madrid.
Their destiny is still in their own hands but they lost their opening game to Poland and only goal difference keeps them off the bottom of Group A.
Taeke Taekema opened the scoring on four minutes, and Russell Garcia wasted a chance to level when he shot over.
Goals by Teun de Nooijer and Sander van der Weide completed Britain's misery.
GB coach Jason Leed said: "We were well beaten by comfortably the best team we have played in my time as coach.
"We improved significantly from yesterday's awful performance against Poland.
"But the gulf in that performance and the performance needed to be competitive with Holland was too far apart to be achieved overnight."
Manager David Whittle added: "Jason really laid into them before the game.
"There are times that you can do that and times you cannot and they played with more intensity."
Britain must finish in the top seven of the 12-nation event and still have to play Spain, South Africa and, on Friday, Japan.
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